1985 – Live Aid benefit concert – Held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, the concert raised millions in benefit of those affected by famine in Ethiopia. Over a billion people tuned in around the world to watch the show.
1099 – The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
1174 – William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England
1534 – The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
1558 – Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines, France.
1568 – Dean of St. Paul’s London, Alexander Nowell perfects a way to bottle beer
1585 – A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
1643 – In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
1700 – Treaty of Constantinople establishes peace after Russo-Turkish war
1754 – At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
1787 – The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
1814 – National military police of Italy created
1832 – Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
1837 – Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1854 – US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1863 – Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
1865 – P. T. Barnum’s museum burns down
1917 – Vision of Virgin Mary appears to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 – Race riots in Longview, Gregg County, Texas
1931 – A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.
1941 – Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union.
1942 – 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis
1942 – German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 – SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 – Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany
1949 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1954 – In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
1963 – Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft
1967 – Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1977 – Frustrated by its failing water system, Kinney, Minnesota declared the creation of the Republic of Kinney and sent a letter of secession to the U.S. Secretary of State.
1977 – Ethiopian-Somali War begins – The Somali National Army invaded the disputed Ogaden region between Somalia and Ethiopia. The war lasted for 9 months and ended with a Somalian retreat
1978 – Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
1978 – BBC bans Sex Pistols “No One is Innocent”
1978 – Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
1982 – Iran launches first attack into Iraq
1984 – In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.
1985 – Live Aid benefit concert – Held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, the concert raised millions in benefit of those affected by famine in Ethiopia. Over a billion people tuned in around the world to watch the show.
2000 – The United States and Vietnam singed a major trade agreement. The pact still needed to be approved by the U.S. Congress.
2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130
2013 – #BlackLivesMatter created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin
2015 – Greek Credit Crisis: Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes reforms.
2015 – Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide
2018 – Suicide bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan, targeting election campaign event kills 128, Islamic State claims responsibility
2018 – US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyber-attacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election
2018 – Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
2021 – 337 die in violent protests and looting in South Africa following the jailing of Jacob Zuma, with more than 200 shopping malls set alight
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
