Independence Day in Costa Rica (1821)
Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom
Free Money Day
1530 – According to the Dominican Order, three mysterious women brought the painting Saint Dominic in Soriano to a friary in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy.
1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened (train pictured) as the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities.
1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika.
1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.
