490BC The Battle of Marathon: The Athenians and Plataeans defeat a Persian invasion
1213 Battle of Muret: Crusaders defeat the Albigensians
1396 Crusaders under the Count of Nevers reach Nicopolis
1683 Battle of Vienna, Day 2: Christian armies under Poland's King John Sobieski defeat the Turks, who lift the siege of Vienna
1733 War of the Polish Succession: Former King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland (1706-1709), the father-in-law of Louis XV, is again elected king (1733-1736)
1740 Voltaire and Frederick the Great meet1776 Nathan Hale leaves Washington's camp on Harlem Heights (at 127th St) on a spy mission
1814 Battle of North Point: Regulars & Militiamen prevent the British from capturing Baltimore
1861 Confederates invest Lexington, Mo (Falls 20th)
1861 Skirmish at Black River, Mo
1861 Skirmish at Cheat Mtn, WVa
1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
1901 Arabs attack Jewish settlement of Gedara, Palestine
1917 Battle of the Bainsizza (11th Isonzo) ends (from Aug 19)
1919 Gefreiter Adolf Hitler joins the "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei -- German Workers' Party", becoming its 55th member
1938 Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia
1940 Italian troops under Rudolfo Graziani invade Egypt
1941 Coast Guardsmen capture the German trawler 'Busko' in Greenland waters
1942 Guadalcanal, Battle of Bloody Ridge: Marines repulse the Kawaguchi Detachment
1943 New Guinea: Australian and U.S. troops capture Salamaua
1943 Otto Skorzeny's commandos liberate Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso
1944 John Blythe crash lands his USAAF Spitfire recon plane at Mount Farm Air Base, England
1948 The Indian Army initiates 'Operation Polo,' which brings secessionist Hyderabad under government control by the 17th
1974 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
1983 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its downing of KAL Flight 007
1990 US, Britain, France, & the USSR agree to reunification of Germany
1995 Belarussian armed forces shoot down a balloon in an international race, 2 Americans die
