1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: A large scale insurrection against the French monarchy occurs in Paris Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody
How amazing that they know the date of Cleopatra's death - incredible. Thanks for doing this Shelby, fascinating.
Just spotted my text was auto-corrected .... of course it should've said SHALIBY - or was I thinking about Thomas Shelby at the time and my laptop read my mind
1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1961 – Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.[5] The day is known as Barbed Wire Sunday.
1998 – Julien Green, American author . He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française.(b. 1900)
Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation. (a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, some states in Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu); and its related observances