479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by a Greek army under Pausanias; a double victory with the success at Mycale that ends the Persian invasion
663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Baekje Korean forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea, the last Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years
1789 French National Assembly issues the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"
1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 am - 9:40 am), the shortest recorded war in history
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn the "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies"
1950 First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe airs on the BBC
1955 Guinness Book of World Records is first published
1964 Walt Disney's musical film "Mary Poppins," directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and wins five Academy Awards
1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley at his Los Angeles, California, home
1979 Lord Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of whom are children, by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland
2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500 m and silver in K-2 500 m in Athens; she is the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at six different Olympics, with golds 24 years apart, and the first person to win two or more medals in five different Games
2008 US Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, by the Democratic Party
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