Today:
636 – The Battle of Yarmouk ends with a decisive victory for the Rashidun Caliphate over the Byzantine Empire, marking a significant expansion of Muslim control in the Middle East.
917 – The Battle of Acheloos takes place, where Bulgarian forces under Tsar Simeon I defeat the Byzantine Empire, solidifying Bulgarian dominance in the Balkans.
1083 – The coronation of King Stephen I of Hungary takes place, marking the beginning of the Kingdom of Hungary.
1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola begins during Queen Anne’s War, a conflict between British and Spanish forces in what is now Florida.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London.
1882 – Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow, Russia, during the dedication of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
1910 – The Great Fire of 1910, one of the largest wildfires in U.S. history, begins in the states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous speech praising the Royal Air Force, coining the phrase, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
1968 – During the Prague Spring, Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to suppress political reforms, ending the brief period of liberalization.
1975 – NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft is launched, beginning its mission to Mars, where it will become the first U.S. mission to successfully land on and explore the Martian surface..
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