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46 BC \u2013 While in the process of creating the calendar system named after him, Julius Caesar adds 2 days to the 8th month Sextilis\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 30 BC \u2013 After his army deserts him, and Octavian brings Alexandria under the control of Rome, Mark Antony commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner.<\/p>\n 8 BC \u2013 The Roman Senate renames the month Sextilis<\/em> in honor of Emperor Augustus.<\/sup><\/p>\n 902 \u2013 Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the moslem conquest of Sicily.<\/p>\n 1498 \u2013 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.<\/p>\n 1571 \u2013 Famagusta, the last Venetian stronghold in Cyprus, surrenders to the Ottoman army, concluding the moslem conquest of Cyprus.<\/p>\n 1620 \u2013 The ship Speedwell<\/em> leaves Delfshaven, England for America with the pilgrims aboard<\/p>\n 1664 \u2013 Ottoman moslem forces are defeated at the Cistercian monastery of St. Gotthard in Hungary by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli.<\/p>\n 1774 \u2013 British scientist Joseph Priestley confirms the prior discovery of oxygen, termed Sauerstoff<\/em> by German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.<\/p>\n 1779 \u2013 Francis Scott Key is born in Carroll County Maryland.<\/p>\n 1800 \u2013 The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n 1801 \u2013 During the First Barbary War, the American USS Enterprise<\/em> captures the Tripolitan Tripoli<\/em> in action off the coast of Libya.<\/p>\n 1819 \u2013 Herman Melville is born in New York City.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 Martha ‘Calamity Jane’ Cannary dies of pneumonia at the Calloway Hotel in Terry, South Dakota.<\/p>\n 1911 \u2013 Harriet Quimby takes her pilot’s test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013\u00a0 President Truman signs the Guam Organic Act making the island an\u00a0 unincorporated territory of the U.S.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the military’s version of the civilian Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune<\/em> is published.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 Shooting from the tower of the University of Texas at Austin, Charles Whitman kills 15 people outright and wounds 31 more, before being killed by the police.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 MTV begins broadcasting in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 crests at St. Louis at 49.6 feet, 20 feet above flood stage.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145 more.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 On mountain K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, 11 mountaineers from international expeditions die in an ice avalanche occurring at an area known as “the Bottleneck”. 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