U.S. Treasury / Surrender of Japan / Vietnam / ATM

-31 BC

The Battle of Actium marked the end of the Roman Republic when Octavian's forces defeated those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the west coast of Greece.

-1192

Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart signed the Treaty of Jaffa, ending the Third Crusade with a compromise neither was happy with. The Treaty leaves Jerusalem under Islamic control with Christian pilgrimage rights and restores the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

-1666

London was 80% destroyed in the Great Fire of London, which broke out at 2 am in Pudding Lane.

-1789

The United States Treasury Department was founded.

-1792

During the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs killed three Roman Catholic bishops, over two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

-1885

150 white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and driving hundreds more away.

-1864

The Atlanta Campaign ended with William T. Sherman's capture and occupation of Atlanta, Georgia, the final battle of the American Civil War.

-1945

Japan surrenders to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.

-1945

Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence from France hours after Japan surrendered in World War II.

-1969

Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York, debuts America's first automatic teller machine (ATM), dispensing cash to customers.

-1995

Michael Jackson's song "You Are Not Alone" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—his 12th and final.