| 1391 |
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Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews. |
| 1763 |
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Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac’s rebellion. |
| 1762 |
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Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland. |
| 1815 |
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A peace treaty with Tripoli–which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis–brings an end to the Barbary Wars. |
| 1858 |
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The first transatlantic cable is completed. |
| 1861 |
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Congress adopts the nation’s first income tax to finance the Civil War. |
| 1864 |
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The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama. |
| 1892 |
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Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War. |
| 1914 |
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The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I. |
| 1914 |
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The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1915 |
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The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front. |
| 1916 |
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The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt. |
| 1921 |
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Mustapha Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1941 |
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The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union. |
| 1951 |
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The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas. |
| 1962 |
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Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. |
| 1974 |
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President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons. |
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Born on August 5 |
| 1850 |
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Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and author of "The Necklace." |
| 1876 |
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Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and writer. |
| 1906 |
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John Houston, film director of such movies as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon. |
| 1908 |
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Miriam Rothschild, English scientist and writer. |
| 1923 |
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Richard G. Kleindienst, one of the key officials who helped elect Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1969. |
| 1930 |
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. |
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