1987 - World Championship leader Nelson Piquet of Brazil collected his second lucky win in succession when he capped a week of great personal satisfaction by triumphing in the Hungarian Grand Prix. After trailing Williams teammate Nigel Mansell of Britain for 70 of the 76 laps, Piquet repeated his victory in last year’s inaugural race at the demanding Hungarian circuit when his arch-rival lost a rear wheel nut and retired. The win, following his West German Grand Prix victory two weeks ago in similarly fortunate circumstances, lifted Piquet seven points clear of compatriot Ayrton Senna, and 18 in front of Mansell and World Champion Alain Prost of France. Senna finished second and Prost third. It was the 19th win of his career for Piquet, who has described his move to Lotus as “perfect”.
Other important events
1831 - The first US steam locomotive runs between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
1842 - US and Canada resolve a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of England following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1919 - Anglo-Persian agreement is signed at Tehran to preserve integrity of Persia.
1936 - American athlete Jesse Owens becomes the first Olympian to win four gold medals at Berlin Olympics.
1940 - Estonia becomes a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
1945 - US aircraft drops world’s 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
1954 - Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey sign treaty of mutual assistance.
1956 - UN Security Council adopts US-proposed resolution calling for ceasefire between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Cyprus.
1965 - Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
1976 - The Soviet Union launches its Luna 24 space probe to collect soil samples from the Moon.
1984 - France and Britain start an international effort to help clear the Red Sea of mines.
1994 - Hijackers kill a Cuban navy lieutenant and force four sailors overboard before setting sail in the commandeered vessel for the US.
1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, dies, age 89.
1999 - Boris Yeltsin names ex-KGB spy Vladimir Putin as his heir.
2000 - Lebanese army returns to the south of the country for the first time in some 30 years.
2002 - South Korean President Kim Dae-jung appoints Chang Dae-whan as the new prime minister.
2008 - Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies in a US hospital following heart surgery.
2012 - Jamaica’s Usain Bolt becomes the first man to win both the 100 and 200-metre races in two successive Olympics.
2014 - Katie Ledecky sets world record for swimming in the 400-metre freestyle in the US Championships.
2016 - Kalikho Pul, former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, commits suicide.
