A small selection of important events on this day in history

According to wikipedia:

• 1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239), is born
  
• 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
  
• 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745), is born
  
• 1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
  
• 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
  
• 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892), is born
  
• 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
  
• 1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
  
• 1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955), is born
  
• 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  
• 1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
  
• 1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989), is born
  
• 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
  
• 1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  
• 1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987), is born
  
• 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people were killed instantly.
  
• 1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
  
• 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born American film director, is born
  
• 1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls), is born
  
• 1975 - Snoopy, Martinoz center blogger, is born
  
• 1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, American murder victim (d. 1996), is born
  
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
  
• 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
  
• 1991 - Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.