ante diem ix kalendas sextilias
¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)
¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)
¶ 69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)
¶ 133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar — fell to the Romans (?)
¶ 1895 — Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)
¶ 1978 — death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)
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