1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie 1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine 1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "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 largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles) | 
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