1258 Battle of Corticella d'Ogli: Verona defeats Brescia1464

1645 Treaty of Peace between New Netherlands & the Indians

1748 British begin two month siege of Pondicherry (fails)

1757 Battle of Gross Jägersdorf: Russians defeat the Prussians, but retreat anyway

1780 Benedict Arnold promised to betray West Point to the British

1781 Battle of the Chesapeake: French fleet defeats the Royal Navy, sealing the fate of Yorktown

1813 Battle of Kulm: Russo-Prussians defeat the French

1842 Battle of Ghoaine: British defeat the Afghans.

1856 Battle of Osawatomie, Ks: c. 250 pro-slavery thugs defeat John Brown's small anti-slavery gang, and then loot and burn the town

1862 Battle of Richmond, Ky: Kirby Smith's Rebs defeat Horatio Wright's Yanks

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas/Gainesville/Bristoe Station), Day 3 of 3: Confederates win

1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day

1918 Fanya Kaplan shoots Lenin, but only wounds him; is later shot

1932 Hermann Goring elected chairman of the Reichstag

1936 USS 'Kane' (DD-235) near-missed by a bomb from Spanish Nationalist aircraft which mistook her for a Republican vessel

1937 Near Shanghai the Chinese Air Force mistakes the liner 'President Hoover' for a Japanese ship, inflicting light damage.

1939 Poland mobilizes for WW II

1940 The "Second Vienna Award," Hitler takes Transylvania from Romania and gives it to Hungary

1941 The Germans begin the siege of Leningrad

1942 Egypt: Rommel opens the Alam Halfa offensive, loses by Sept. 5

1942 Guadalcanal: U.S. DDs and APDs land reinforcements, lose one ship.

1942 Nazi Germany annexes Luxembourg

1942 Papua: Japanese abandon landings at Milne Bay, but press forward on the Kokoda Trail

1942 U.S. troops land on unoccupied Adak Island, in the Aleutians.

1944 6th Infantry Div completes movement from San Francisco to Hawaii

1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania

1945 11th Airborne Div flies into Atsugi Airfield, Japan

1945 Gen MacArthur arrives in Japan

1945 Surface combatants of TF 38 enter Tokyo Bay.

1951 US-Philippines mutual defense treaty signed

1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco

1991 Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR

2007 The Governor of Virginia pardons Gabriel Prosser and 34 others, hanged at Richmond for "servile insurrection" this date in 1800