43 BC: Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him consul

1839: Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published “free to the world” in Paris as a gift from the French government

1942: World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed, wounded, or captured during a raid on Dieppe, France

1988: Iran and Iraq begin a ceasefire in their eight-year-old war at 11 pm EDT

1991: Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d’état

2010: Operation Iraqi Freedom winds down as the last of the United States Brigade Combat Teams cross the border into Kuwait

Source: Onthisday.com