43 BC – Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul
1839 – Details of Louis Daguerre’s 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1942 – World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
1988 – Iran and Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1991 – Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait
2014 – NASA satellites take photos showing that the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had for the first time completely dried up
2018 – Two more earthquakes hit Lombok in Indonesia killing 14 two weeks after previous earthquakes
2020 – Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation
Film & TV:
1950 – ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
Music:
2008 – “The Fame”, debut album by Lady Gaga, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Electronic/Dance Album 2009)
Sport:
1909 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana
Via Britannica / On This Day
