Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War. The Black Hawk War of 1832…

Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class. Samurai were a class of…

Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. Mars and Earth have varying distances between them…

The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain

Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage

First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.

The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)’]

The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. On August 27, 410, Visigoths from eastern Europe ended a three-day sack of the…

Hurricane Irene reaches land on the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.