479-B.C. Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece
663 -Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Baekje Korean forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea, the last Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years
1789-French National Assembly issues the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"
1883-Krakatoa volcano, located west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT, killing approximately 40,000 people
1928-Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn the "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies"
1979-Lord Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children, by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland
1980-Chun Doo-hwan elected president of South Korea
2008-U.S. Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, by the Democratic Party