1410: Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic knights at Tannenburg, Prussia.
1685: The Duke of Monmouth was executed in Tower Hill in England, after his army was defeated at Sedgemore.
1788: Louis XVI jailed 12 deputies who protested new judicial reforms.
1789: The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government.
1806: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MS.
1813: Napoleon Bonaparte's representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1834: Lord Napier of England arrived in Macao, China as the first chief superintendent of trade.
1857: British women and children were murdered in the second Cawnpore Massacre during the Indian Mutiny.
1863: Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwhackers attacked Huntsville, MO, where they stole $45,000 from the local bank.
1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1876: George Washington Bradley of St. Louis pitched the first no-hitter in baseball in a 2-0 win over Hartford.
1888: "Printers’ Ink" was first sold.
1895: Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, was murdered by Macedonian rebels.
1901: Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1904: The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.
1916: In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co.
1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1922: The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1940: Robert Wadlow died at the age of 22. At that time he was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds.
1942: The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' was carried to help China's war effort.
1958: Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
1965: The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
1965: Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg were married.
1968: ABC-TV premiered "One Life to Live".
1968: Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
1971: U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."
1973: Nolan Ryan of the California Angels became the first pitcher in two decades to win two no-hitters in a season.
1976: A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver when they were abducted by three gunmen near Chowchilla, CA. All of the captives escaped unharmed.
1981: Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of "The Young and the Restless" on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy.
1985: Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike turned out to be just a one-day interruption.
1997: Gianni Versace was shot to death by Andrew Phillip Cunanan outside his home in Miami, FL. Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
1999: Harold Greene received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2002: John Walker Lindh pled guilty to two felonies. The crimes were supplying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban government and for carrying explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agreed to spend 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
2009: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released in theaters in the U.S. It was the sixth movie in the series.