| 1990 | Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. However, Morris's leadership role in the legislation is disputed. 1990) |
| 2020 | The death of Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian football player and manager (b.
Morris herself never claimed any credit, ascribing the bill entirely to William H. Bright, who was member of the territorial legislature from South Pass City and President of the Territorial Council. 1929) |
| 2014 | The death of Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (b. 1929) |
| 2021 | The death of Bill Davis, Canadian politician, 18th premier of Ontario (b.
1972) |
| 2015 | The death of Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1812 – April 2, 1902) was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. . . She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly 9 months.
1936) |
| 2018 | The death of Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1929) |
| 2022 | The death of Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1935) |
| 2014 | The death of Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929) |
| 2020 | The death of Alfredo Lim, former Philippine senator and Mayor of Manila (b.
This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. |
| 1991 | The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever built, collapses. |
| 1993 | The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people. |
| 1998 | Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist. |
| 2000 | Confederate submarine H.L.
Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. |
| 2001 | Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia near Tetovo, killing 10 soldiers. |
| 2004 | A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps approximately 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat full of passengers. |
| 2007 | An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. |
| 2008 | A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others. |
| 2008 | The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24. |
| 2010 | China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. |
| 2013 | A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. |
| 2015 | Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas. |
| 2016 | Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others. |
| 2022 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a raid on former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1989 | The birth of Ken Baumann, American actor and author |
| 1989 | The birth of Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player |
| 1989 | The birth of Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer |
| 1989 | The birth of Prajakta Mali, Indian actress |
| 1990 | The birth of Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer |
| 1990 | The birth of Parker Kligerman, American race car driver |
| 1990 | The birth of Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer |
| 1990 | The birth of Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain |
| 1991 | The birth of Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer |
| 1991 | The birth of Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player |
| 1992 | The birth of Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer |
| 1992 | The birth of Casey Cott, American actor |
| 1998 | The birth of Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1998 | The birth of Ryan Garcia, American boxer |
| 2000 | The birth of Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player |
| 2013 | The death of Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b.
1929) |
| 2014 | The death of Charles Keating, English-American actor (b.
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