1945 – VJ DAY – Japan surrendered to the U.S. aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. The war ended six years and one day after it began.
44 B.C. – Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son Caesarion co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesar
31 B.C. – The Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor.
1192 – Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.
1732 – Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1775 – Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington.
1789 – The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
1792 – September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1864 – During the U.S. Civil War Union forces led by Gen. William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta following the retreat of the Confederates.
1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1897 – The first issue of “McCall’s” magazine was published. The magazine had been known previously as “Queens Magazine” and “Queen of Fashion.”
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt, then Vice President, said “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1902 – “A Trip To The Moon”, the first sci-fi film, released
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews
1935 – Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
1937 – US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1940 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1944 – Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific
1945 – VJ DAY – Japan surrendered to the U.S. aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. The war ended six years and one day after it began.
1945 – Ho Chi Minh declared the independence the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 – Interim government of India is formed
1958 – National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 – U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
1960 – The First election of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile is held
1961 – The U.S.S.R. resumed nuclear weapons testing. Test ban treaty negotiations had failed with the U.S. and Britain when the three nations could not agree upon the nature and frequency of on-site inspections.
1963 – The integration of Tuskegee High School was prevented by state troopers assigned by Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Wallace had the building surrounded by state troopers.
1967 – The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1986 – Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1991 – The U.S. formally recognized the independence of Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia.
1992 – The U.S. and Russia agreed to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996 – Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact formally ending 26-years of insurgency that had killed more than 120,000 people.
1998 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide
2012 – 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
2012 – A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
2018 – About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting
2019 – Violence and looting directed at foreigners in Johannesburg results in five deaths and dozens arrested by South African police
2020 – Press conference with body camera evidence brings to light death of African American Daniel Prude after being retrained by police back in March
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
