Today in History
| 1743 | By the Treaty of Abo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden's failed war with Russia. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow. | |
| 1833 | The first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, the Canadian ship Royal William, begins her journey from Nova Scotia to The Isle of Wight. | |
| 1863 | Union gunboats attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first time. | |
| 1942 | Marine Raiders attack Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines. | |
| 1943 | Allied forces complete the conquest of Sicily. | |
| 1944 | The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city. | |
| 1945 | Upon hearing confirmation that Japan has surrendered, Sukarno proclaims Indonesia's independence. | |
| 1960 | American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane. | |
| 1978 | Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon. | |
| 1987 | 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison. | |
| 1988 | Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination. | |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton admits to the American public that he had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. | |
| 1999 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000. | |
| 2005 | Israel begins the first forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of a unilateral disengagement plan. | |
| 2012 | Moscow's top court upholds ban of gay pride events in Russia's capital city for 100 years. |
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