- 216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 1776 - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
- 1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
- 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
- 1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
- 1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
- 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait causing an international crisis
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