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1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada
1775 – King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama
1898 – The first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented
1914 – Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty
1942 – Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 – Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu
1944 – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton England
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins
1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans.
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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