394 Battle of the Frigidus River: The Emperor Theodosius I defeats the usurper Eugenius and Arbogast the Frank

1634 Battle of Nordlingen: Spanish & Imperialists defeat the Swedes [Aug 27, Julian], fought in an ancient meteor crater

1643 Castro War: Battle of Mongiovino - Tuscans force Papal troops to retreat.

1715 "The Fifteen" - Widespread Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland

1808 Gioacchino Murat lands at Gaeta to assume the throne of Naples

1813 Battle of Dennewitz: Prussians defeat the French

1861 Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant captures Paducah, Kentucky, without opposition

1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland

1863 Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege

1901 Pres William McKinley is mortally wounded by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo (d. 14th)

1918 US Navy 14-inch railroad guns open fire on the Western Front

1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agree war is naughty

1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II

1939 South Africa declares war on Germany

1940 'Charles F. Hughes' (DD-428) commissioned by Lt Cdr. G. L. Menocal; GM Eugene Paulson

1940 Former King Michael of Romania (1927-1930) succeeds his father, Carol II as king (1940-1947)

1940 Mussolini turns down Hitler's offer of a panzer unit to support his forces in North Africa

1941 Germany orders all Jews over 6 anywhere to wear a yellow Star of David

1941 Nazis establish a ghetto in Vilna

1942 Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby

1943 Japanese CA 'Nachi' survives torpedo from USS 'Halibut' (SS-232), off Japan.

1944 Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand

1944 Western Carolines: 16 U.S. carriers strike Japanese held islands

1976 Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to Japan with a MiG-25

1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2

1986 Islamist terrorists kill 22 at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, Istanbul

1988 Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard

1991 Leningrad becomes St. Petersburg again