1198 – Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1550 – William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1666 – Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1698 – Russia’s Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards
1786 – Mont plaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaar beek Belgium
1793 – In the French Revolution, the “Reign of Terror” begins
1839 – The First Opium War begins in China.
1844 – Iron ore discovered in Minnesota’s Mesabi Mountains
1863 – Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama
1881 – The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
1882 – The first U.S. Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born. This day is celebrated as Teacher’s Day in India
1953 – 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC
1977 – The U.S. launched Voyager .
1984 – The space shuttle Discovery landed after its maiden voyage.
1997 – Athens in Greece, selected to host 2004 Olympics
2014 – World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
By: Archa Dave
