• 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: The Bulgarians defeated the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan near present-day Ihtiman, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
• 1560 – The
Scottish Parliament adopted a Protestant confession of faith to initiate the
Scottish Reformation and disestablishing Catholicism as the national religion.
• 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of
India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
• 1980 –
Two-month-old Australian Azaria Chamberlain was taken from her family's
campsite at Uluru by a dingo, for which her mother was later convicted of
murder.
• 2008 – With the
victory in the 4×100 m medley relay at the Beijing Summer Olympics, Michael
Phelps set the records for the most gold
medals won by an individual in a single Olympics (8) as well as total career
gold medals (14) in modern Olympic history.
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