A coup by the The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin occues against the Tianshun Emperor
6 August 1917
Battle of M?r??e?ti between the Romanian and German armies starts during World War 1
5 August 1620
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England for its first attempt to get to North America.
4 August 1704
Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession
2 August 1989
A massacre is carried out in Valvettitura by an c in Sri Lanka that killed 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1 August 1993
The Great Flood of the Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood in 1993 comes to a peak.
31 July 1992
113 people are killed as Thai Airways Flight 311 crashes into a mountain that is north of Kathmandu in Nepal.
30 July 1971
A Japanese Air Force F-86 and All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and collide in Japan killing all 162.
29 July 1987
The agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel is signed by the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the President of France François…