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2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented
2004 - A bomb attack in front of Prague's Casino Royal.
2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
1996 - MTV2 makes its first broadcasts. The first video played was Beck's "Where It's At".
1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200-meter dash in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1988 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally as a two hour radio show

1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, American musician formerly of (O-Town)
1981 - M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1978 - Dhani Harrison, musician
1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
1977 - Marc Denis, NHL Hockey player - Goaltender
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1972 - Devon Hughes, US professional wrestler
1970 - David James, English footballer
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director

World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day
Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)
Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas
Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
Switzerland - National Day
Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day

2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)