1941 – British and Soviet troops attack pro-German Iran
1951 – Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
1979 – Somali adopts constitution
1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2004 – Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos win Brazil’s first gold medal in men’s beach volleyball with a 21–16, 21–15 victory over Spanish pair Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera
2012 – 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
2013 – 4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico