There are no ordinary moments:D
- 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1189 - Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
- 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1966 - Last scheduled Beatles concert, in Candlestick Park San Francisco, California.
- 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
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