1940 - The Battle of Britain began during World War II, with at least 70 German bombers attacking shipping docks in South Wales.
1943 - The Battle of Sicily started between Axis forces and Allied forces on the island of Sicily during World War II.
1985 - A member of the Greenpeace crew died when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland Harbor, New Zealand.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected president of Russia.
1995 - Actor Hugh Grant made his first public appearance after being arrested for lewd conduct.
1995 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after nearly 6 years of detention.
2000 - At least 200 people died in the Philippines following the collapse of a garbage mountain in Manila.
2001 - A drawing by Leonardo da Vinci was sold at Christie's auction house for a world record price of $11.4 million.
2002 - A lost painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens titled "The Massacre of the Innocents" set a world record as the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in pounds sterling, reaching £49.5 million ($77 million).
2006 - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, one of Russia's most wanted men, was killed.
2017 - Iraq announced victory over ISIS in Mosul.
