1. 0476 - Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy
2. 1951 - President Harry S. Truman’s speech from San Francisco is broadcast across the U.S., the first time a television program is broadcast from coast to coast
3. 1957 - The U.S. National Guard is used to prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock
4. 1964 - The Queen opens the Forth Road Suspension Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh to Fife
5. 1981 - Beyoncé is born
6. 1985 - The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic are released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives
7. 1993 - Pope John Paul II starts his first visit to the former Soviet Union
8. 1997 - The last of the original Ford Thunderbird's rolls off the assembly line
9. 2002 - Kelly Clarkson, a former Texas waitress, wins the first series of American Idol after 15.5m votes were cast by telephone by American Idol viewers.
10. 2005 - On the sixth day after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans the Superdome complex is evacuated via 40 aircraft and the city comes back under control
11. 2006 - 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin dies whilst filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, after a stingray's barb pierced his chest
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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