1914 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI.
1914 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow.
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead.
1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians.
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender.
1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9.
2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
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