1776: George Washington asks for a spy, and Nathan Hale volunteers

1813: American naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
As submitted to the patent office in 1846Howe Sewing Machine

1846: Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine

1924: Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in “the crime of the century”

1977: Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France

2008: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland

2020: California’s August Complex wildfire becomes the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)

Source: Onthisday.com