On this date..

In 1794, U.S. General “Mad” Anthony Wayne defeated the Northwest Indian Confederation in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

In 1619, It is thought that enslaved people were first brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia on this date.

In 1777, Marquis de Lafayette arrives at General George Washington's Headquarters at the John Moland House in Warwick Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the Continental Army was encamped from August 10 to 23, 1777, before marching to Chester County for the Battle of Brandywine.

In 1780, Colonel Francis Marion, Major Hugh Horry and 150 men at Santee Swamp, moved towards Sumter's Plantation on the north side of Nelson’s Ferry on the Santee River. Past midnight, they ambushed a convoy of prisoners taken at Camden, which had stopped for the night at a house along the road, liberating 147 Maryland and Delaware Continentals.

In 1781, George Washington begins moving his troops south to fight Cornwallis

In 1804, Sergeant Charles Floyd dies three months into the voyage of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, becoming the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die during the journey.

In 1858, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was first published, in the “Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society”.

In 1862, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley publishes a passionate editorial calling on President Abraham Lincoln to declare emancipation for all enslaved people in Union-held territory.

In 1866, more than a year after the last land battle of the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson declared that the "insurrection in the State of Texas has been completely and everywhere suppressed and ended."

In 1866, the newly organized National Labor Union called on Congress to mandate an eight-hour workday. A coalition of skilled and unskilled workers, farmers, and reformers, the National Labor Union was created to pressure Congress to enact labor reforms.

In 1908, America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to stay in Australia

In 1910, a series of wildfires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington, killing at least 85 people and burning some 3 million acres.

In 1911,  First around-the-world telegram sent.

In 1920, At a meeting in Canton, Ohio, the National Football League was formed initially as the American Professional Football Conference.

In 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers utility player Tommy Brown homers to drive in his team's only run in an 11-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It seems insignificant, aside from the fact that, at 17 years old, Brown remains the youngest player to homer in a Major League Baseball game, a feat unlikely to be duplicated.

In 1954, President Eisenhower approves a National Security Council paper titled “Review of U.S. Policy in the Far East.” This paper supported Secretary of State Dulles’ view that, in light of U.S. fears of a regional attack by communist China, the United States should support Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, while encouraging him to broaden his government and establish more democratic institutions.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

In 1974, President Gerald Ford—11 days after becoming President of the United States in the wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation—announces New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller as his pick for vice president.

In 1975, NASA launches Viking 1 probe toward Mars.

In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself.

In 1998, Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.

In 2000, The peregrine falcon, world’s fastest bird at up to 200 m.p.h., is removed from the US’s endangered species list after 31 years. The banning of the pesticide DDT is largely credited for the bird’s resurgence.

In 2012, after 80 years in existence, Georgia’s Augusta National golf club (home to the Masters Tournament) invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become its first female members; both accepted.