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On this day - August 5

25 — Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han ...

70 — Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in ...

642 — Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald ...

910 — The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century ...

939 — The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and ...

1068 — Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year ...

1100 — Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

1192 — Richard I of England defeats Saladin in the battle of Jaffa, ...

1278 — Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile ...

1305 — First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of ...

1388 — The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the ...

1460 — The Kingdom of Scotland captures Roxburgh, one of the last ...

1506 — The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in ...

1583 — Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in ...

1600 — The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later ...

1620 — The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying ...

1689 — Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New ...

1716 — Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army ...

1735 — Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John ...

1763 — Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by ...

1772 — First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, ...

1781 — The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.

1796 — The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian ...

1816 — The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new ...

1824 — Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris leads a Greek ...

1858 — Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic ...

1860 — Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway in ...

1861 — The United States Army abolishes flogging.

1861 — American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, ...

1862 — American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile ...

1874 — Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a ...

1882 — Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, ...

1884 — The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on ...

1888 — Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the ...

1901 — Peter O'Connor sets the first World Athletics recognised ...

1906 — Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, ...

1914 — In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is ...

1914 — World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip ...

1914 — World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a ...

1916 — World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the ...

1925 — Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge ...

1926 — Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes ...

1931 — Judge and Nazi Party member Werner Best drews the Boxheim ...

1939 — The Thirteen Roses: Thirteen female members of the Unified ...

1940 — World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.

1944 — World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between ...

1944 — World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp ...

1944 — World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia ...

1949 — In Montana, 12 smokejumper firefighters and 1 US Forest ...

1949 — In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more ...

1957 — American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage ...

1960 — Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent ...

1962 — American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from ...

1962 — Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released ...

1963 — Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the ...

1964 — Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from ...

1965 — The Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers ...

1966 — A group of red guards at Experimental High in Beijing, ...

1969 — The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

1971 — The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South ...

1973 — Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.

1974 — Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of ...

1979 — In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising ...

1981 — President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic ...

1984 — A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on ...

1995 — Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb ...

2003 — A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta ...

2008 — The New England Revolution win the 2008 North American ...

2010 — Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye ...

2010 — The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners ...

2012 — The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, ...

2015 — The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste ...

2019 — The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir ...

2021 — Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters ...

2024 — Following the non-cooperation movement against the government ...