1263 – King James I of Aragon censors Hebrew writing
1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin is shot and killed by John Selman Sr. in a saloon in El Paso, Texas
1903 – Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
1922 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown
1944 – US general Omar Bradley visits British general Bernard Montgomery
1953 – England regains cricket Ashes from Australia after winning series 1-0
1960 – American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy
1981 – 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1987 – Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide
1991 – Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état