tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7692754221489182682024-03-13T21:10:13.592-07:00Today in HistoryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-79353414111152605192017-09-02T04:21:00.001-07:002017-09-02T04:21:53.598-07:00August 31<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_31'>August 31</a>, 1422 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4318/36150814366_19e2cdd869_c.jpg">Henry V, King of England and France, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1707 </div>
<div class="description">The Treaty of Altranstädt, which settle the rights of Protestants in Silesia, is signed between Charles XII of Sweden and Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1756 </div>
<div class="description">The British at Fort William Henry, New England, surrender to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm of France</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1907 </div>
<div class="description">England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente as a counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1946 </div>
<div class="description">At the Nuremberg Tribunal, defendants make closing statements before the court: Hermann Goring denies all, Joachim von Ribbentrop hopes America and Great Britain are more successful versus Bolshevism</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1957 </div>
<div class="description">Malaysia gains independence from Britain</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1962 </div>
<div class="description">Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union</div>
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<div class="date">August 31, 1997 </div>
<div class="description">Diana, Princess of Wales, is pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. after a car crash at midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 526 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4291/36150727476_7cb9449227.jpg">Theoderic the Great, King of Ostrogoths, dies of dysentery and is succeeded by his grandson Athalaric</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1483 </div>
<div class="description">Louis XI, King of France, dies at age 60</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1721 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5338/18009666191_d1642a6737.jpg">The Peace of Nystad ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1862 </div>
<div class="description">Union forces are defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1869 </div>
<div class="description">U.S. soldier John Wesley Powell completes exploratory river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, in which becomes the first Europeans to pass through the Grand Canyon</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1909 </div>
<div class="description">Burgess Shale, one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields and the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints, is found by palaeontologist Charles Walcott</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1963 </div>
<div class="description">Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1981 </div>
<div class="description">Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, and Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, are assassinated by a bomb</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">American athlete Mike Powell set new world record in long jump, 8.95 m, World Championships in Athletics</div>
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<div class="date">August 30, 1995 </div>
<div class="description">The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia, continuing into October, simultaneously with an ARBiH offensive against the Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and Bosnian Krajina</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_29'>August 29</a>, 29 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4315/36057626431_89a2634a7d.jpg">John the Baptist, an itinerant preacher at the Jordan River, is beheaded by order of Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee and Perea</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 70 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8633/16121452338_2040d53b11.jpg">Jerusalem is sacked and the Temple of Jerusalem, except Western Wall of Herod's complex, is burned after a nine-month Roman siege under Titus during First Jewish-Roman War</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 284 </div>
<div class="description">Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome beginning a method of numbering years known as Diocletian era</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1526 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Um3hDVl5q3E" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Turkish forces of Suleiman the Magnificent defeat the Hungarian forces and kill Hungarian King Louis II at the Battle of Mohács, which leads to the partition of Hungary for several centuries</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1533 </div>
<div class="description">Francisco Pizarro captures Cusco and completes his conquest of Peru</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1632 </div>
<div class="description">English philosopher John Locke is born in Wrington, England</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1637 </div>
<div class="description">The Dutch attack and capture Elmina in Ghana, which up to that point was the center of Portuguese activity in West Africa and was mostly used for the slave trade</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1655 </div>
<div class="description">Swedish king Charles X Gustav of Sweden occupies Warsaw</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1742 </div>
<div class="description">Edmond Hoyle publishes his "Short Treatise" on classic English trick-taking card game whist</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1786 </div>
<div class="description">Shay's Rebellion lead by American farmer Daniel Shay in Springfield, Massachusetts begins in order to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1791 </div>
<div class="description">The Pandora under Captain Edward Edwards sinks in Endeavour Strait between Australia and New Guinea; 33 crewmen and 4 prisoners die</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1842 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/480/19583136330_2ff982e457.jpg">Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanjing, which ends the First Opium War, opens the port of Shanghai to foreigners and cedes Hong Kong to the British</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1864 </div>
<div class="description">William Huggins, an English astronomer, discovers chemical composition of nebulae using astronomical spectroscopy</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1885 </div>
<div class="description">Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1893 </div>
<div class="description">The "clasp locker", a clumsy slide fastener and forerunner to the zipper is first patented by Whitcomb L. Judson</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1897 </div>
<div class="description">First Zionist Congress, opened by Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland, starts program to resettle Jewish people in Palestine</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1949 </div>
<div class="description">The Soviet Union successfully detonates an atomic weapon</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 1966 </div>
<div class="description">The Beatles' give their last public concert, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California</div>
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<div class="date">August 29, 2005 </div>
<div class="description">Nearly 2000 people are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas from Louisiana to Alabama, and travels up the entire state of Mississippi, affecting most of eastern North America</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 388 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4302/36057516781_f46d821d21.jpg">Magnus Maximus, West Roman Emperor, is executed</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 476 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/15036807397_2bdeb38dd8.jpg">The western Roman Empire formally ends as the barbarian general Odoacer deposes the last of the Roman emperors, the young boy Romulus Augustus, marking the end of ancient history and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1533 </div>
<div class="description">Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, is strangled at the orders of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in spite of the chief has already paid his ransom</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1664 </div>
<div class="description">Four English warships under Colonel Richard Nicolls sails into New Amsterdam to take control of Brooklyn, a village of mostly English settlers</div>
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<div class="date">August 12, 1676 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7707/17398795692_8ed9d41422.jpg">Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, marking the end of the King Philip's War between Indians and colonists</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1789 </div>
<div class="description">William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1789 </div>
<div class="description">Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1830 </div>
<div class="description">Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, loses the competition with horse-drawn car bearing passengers during test on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1867 </div>
<div class="description">United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1879 </div>
<div class="description">Cetshwayo kaMpande, last of the great Zulu kings, is captured by the British at the end of the Zulu wars</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1923 </div>
<div class="description">The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet rule begins</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1937 </div>
<div class="description">Toyota Motors becomes an independent company</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1963 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n82rgdbM9G4" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>Martin Luther King Jr, an American leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, gives his I have a dream speech at Lincoln Memorial before 250,000 civil rights supporters</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1968 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/629/22352765292_00359cf48a.jpg">152 police officers are wounded and about 101 civilians injuried during anti-war protests in Chicago</div>
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<div class="date">August 28, 1996 </div>
<div class="description">Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_27'>August 27</a>, 1626 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4323/36023278102_4707b3290c.jpg">Danish forces and allies are soundly defeated at Lutter-am-Barenberg by an army of the Catholic League under Czech leader Wallenstein, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1689 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8889/17201395387_d39a8cfafe.jpg">Peter the Great takes power from his half-sister Sophia and assumes Russian throne, starting politics of modernization and westernization of traditionalist social systems</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1776 </div>
<div class="description">The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1783 </div>
<div class="description">The first unmanned hydrogen balloon flight, made by Jacques Charles, successfully completes its flight in Paris reaching 900 meter altitude</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1813 </div>
<div class="description">Napoleon defeat The Allies at the Battle of Dresden</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1849 </div>
<div class="description">Venice, under Daniele Manin, surrender to Austrians under Field Marshal Radetzky, following a siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1883 </div>
<div class="description">Explosion of volcano with a force of 1,300 megatons on the island Krakatoa causes the tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait, which claims some 36,417 lives in Java and Sumatra</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1896 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1526/24907087202_679d89e8e9.jpg">Zanzibar loses to England in a 38-minute war, the shortest war in history, which begins after the death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini and the succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1913 </div>
<div class="description">Lieutenant Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev, the first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1928 </div>
<div class="description">Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed by the USA, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Poland, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy in relations with one another</div>
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<div class="date">August 27, 1939 </div>
<div class="description">Heinkel He 178, the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power, makes the first flight, piloted by Erich Warsit</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 55 BC </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4328/36190568615_6e2740a7c5.jpg">Roman forces under the command of Julius Caesar invade Britain</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1071 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7283/16349883537_5711404771.jpg">The Seljuks under Alp Arslan defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV, who is taken prisoner, at Manzikert in Eastern Turkey and conquer parts of Anatolia and Syria</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1346 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VPTbUW909w8" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>King Edward III's 10,000-man English army actively using the English longbow annihilate a French force of 25,000 under King Philip VI at the Battle of Crecy in Normandy</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1429 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5555/15312915442_6630635455.jpg">Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris after assault which ends siege of Paris by French army</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1648 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8837/16762901263_c47e9a0a57.jpg">The Fronde, a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, begins when the Parliament of Paris opposes the centralizing policies of Cardinal Mazarin, Louis XIV's chief minister</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1768 </div>
<div class="description">The first voyage of James Cook to the south Pacific ocean aboard HMS Endeavour starts to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis from Plymouth</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1789 </div>
<div class="description">French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a fundamental document in the history of human and civil rights</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1843 </div>
<div class="description">Charles Thurber patents a typewriter, making some important innovations</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1879 </div>
<div class="description">Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba follows the Ten Years' War</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1896 </div>
<div class="description">The Philippines' revolutionary secret society Kataastaasan Kagalanggalang Katipunan begins armed conflict with Spanish troops, which eventually ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1907 </div>
<div class="description">Harry Houdini, a Hungarian-American illusionist, escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1914 </div>
<div class="description">Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army, and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1976 </div>
<div class="description">First outbreak of the Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire</div>
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<div class="date">August 26, 1988 </div>
<div class="description">Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_25'>August 25</a>, 325 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4314/35349019964_34cc1c3579.jpg">First Council of Nicaea ends with condemnation of Arian Christianity and establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 357 </div>
<div class="description">Julian, Augustus in the Roman Empire, beats the Alamanni tribal confederation under paramount king Chnodomar in the Battle of Strasbourg</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 383 </div>
<div class="description">Gratian, Emperor of Rome, is murdered</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1270 </div>
<div class="description">Louis IX, King of France, dies on The Eighth Crusade, which is decimated by the Plague</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1499 </div>
<div class="description">Ottoman fleet defeats Venetians at the Battle of Zonchio</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1515 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/16598186457_4f6d5bae3e.jpg">Spanish conquistadors under Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds Havana in island of Cuba</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1530 </div>
<div class="description">Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia, is born</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1543 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8663/16813404845_7578347b40.jpg">Portuguese ships land on the Japanese Island of Tanegashima and introduce the arquebus to Japan beginning the Nanban trade period between Portugal and Japan</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1580 </div>
<div class="description">Spain defeat Portugal in the Battle of Alcântara, the decisive battle of the Spanish King Philip II for the Portuguese throne</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1609 </div>
<div class="description">Galileo demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1689 </div>
<div class="description">English–allied Iroquois takes Montreal</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1758 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8776/17858430558_f38f608ce2.jpg">The Prussians lose 12,800 men and the Russians lose 18,000 men during Battle of Zorndorf, which ends with inconclusive results</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1765 </div>
<div class="description">In protest over the stamp tax, American colonists sack and burn the home of Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1776 </div>
<div class="description">David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1819 </div>
<div class="description">James Watt, a Scottish inventor, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1825 </div>
<div class="description">Uruguay, supported by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, declares independence from Brazil</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1830 </div>
<div class="description">Theatergoers who have just watched a nationalistic opera in Brussels start Belgium revolts against Netherlands</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1835 </div>
<div class="description">New York Sun publishes Moon hoax story, a series of six articles about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1875 </div>
<div class="description">Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 min</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1900 </div>
<div class="description">Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1944 </div>
<div class="description">French General Charles de Gaulle enters liberated Paris</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1981 </div>
<div class="description">Voyager 2 makes the closest approach to Saturn</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1989 </div>
<div class="description">First close up pictures of Neptune are taken by spacecraft Voyager 2</div>
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<div class="date">August 25, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union and changes the name to the Republic of Belarus</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 79 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7545/16309334155_8733cf16d2.jpg">The eruption of Mount Vesuvius buries the Roman settlements of Pompeii and Herculaneum under 4 to 6 meters of ash and kills 33,000 inhabitants of the town-cities</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 410 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7508/15707342313_8ba1b9e44e.jpg">Rome is occupied and sacked by Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, for the first time since 390 BC</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1109 </div>
<div class="description">In the Battle of Hundsfeld, Boleslaus III Wrymouth Prince of Poland defeats Emperor Henry V, incited by Bolesław's half-brother Zbigniew</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1215 </div>
<div class="description">Pope Innocent III, following a request from King John, declares the Magna Carta annulled</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1217 </div>
<div class="description">Eustace the Monk, a French mercenary and pirate, is executed by English troops</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1516 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8692/16619520199_f0fe2e61ea.jpg">The Ottomans under Selim I with the support of artillery defeat the Mamluks at Battle of Marj Dabiq and gain control of Egypt, Arabia, and the Levant</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1572 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7649/16287869743_5643e4d0eb.jpg">Catherine de' Medici instigates Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris in which French protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny and thousands of Calvinist Huguenots are killed throughout France by Roman Catholic mob</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1662 </div>
<div class="description">An Act of Uniformity, a part of the Clarendon Code, is passed by the English Parliament and required that England's college fellows and clergymen accept the newly published Book of Common Prayer</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1690 </div>
<div class="description">Job Charnock, a servant and administrator of the English East India Company, founds the city of Kolkata in East India, after the Mughal emperor transfer taxation rights to the East India Company</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1751 </div>
<div class="description">Thomas Colley, an English chimney sweep, is executed in England for drowning a supposed witch</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1780 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8521/29623465571_885dc342c3_z.jpg">King Louis XVI abolish torture as a means to get suspects to confess, as part of his reforms in France in accordance with Enlightenment ideas</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1814 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/433/19528620279_d9b61fc86e.jpg">The United States Capitol and White House in Washington D.C. are burned and sacked by British General Robert Ross and Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn during War of 1812</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1821 </div>
<div class="description">Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of Córdoba and becomes a constitutional monarchy after 11 years of war</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1824 </div>
<div class="description">Simon Bolivar's army beat the Spanish in Peru in the Battle of Junín</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1853 </div>
<div class="description">First potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum in Saratoga Springs, New York</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1857 </div>
<div class="description">The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company fails, sparking the Panic of 1857, the first world-wide economic crisis</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1936 </div>
<div class="description">Australian Antarctic Territory is created</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1940 </div>
<div class="description">Edward R. Murrow, an American broadcast journalist, starts a series of radio news broadcasts from London during the Blitz, which follow by millions of listeners in the United States</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">Ukraine declares independence from the USSR</div>
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<div class="date">August 24, 2006 </div>
<div class="description">The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-51517417186330576162017-08-22T19:37:00.001-07:002017-08-22T19:37:44.070-07:00August 23<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_23'>August 23</a>, 406 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4304/36144237496_8812064d2e.jpg">The Roman army under Stilicho beat the Barbarians and executes his Gothic king Radagaisus</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1305 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8584/16408096027_174b1ee79a.jpg">William Wallace, one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered in London</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1514 </div>
<div class="description">The Ottoman Empire under Selim I gains decisive victory against a Persian army in the Battle of Chaldiran and wrests Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1617 </div>
<div class="description">The first one-way street is opened in alleys near the River Thames in London</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1689 </div>
<div class="description">French cross the Rhine, destroying Baden-Baden by fire during Nine Years' War</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1775 </div>
<div class="description">Britain's King George III refuses the American colonies' offer of peace and proclaims the American colonies in a state of "open and avowed rebellion"</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1833 </div>
<div class="description">Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire and frees some 700,000 slaves, including those in the West Indies</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1866 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/538/20101289838_014d0cb200.jpg">Peace of Prague, lenient toward the Austrian Empire, ends the Austro-Prussian war and leads to the creation of the North German Confederation with Prussia as the only major power</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1903 </div>
<div class="description">In Russia the Bolsheviks, who ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Mensheviks form from the breakup of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party as a result of a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Juliy Martov</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1939 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/563/21087927065_0382425a10.jpg">Germany and the Soviet Union sign Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with secret protocol, which defines eastern Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and the Romanian province of Bessarabia as Soviet domains of influence and western Poland and Lithuania as Germany's one</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1942 </div>
<div class="description">German forces attack Stalingrad in Soviet Union, starting 5-month-long battle of Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, with combined casualties amounting to nearly two million</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1943 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/643/21109182272_2b2b0f53e4.jpg">Soviet forces recapture Kharkiv, the last stage of the Battle of Kursk, an important engagement between German and Soviet forces after which Red Army gains the initiative against the German Wehrmacht</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1944 </div>
<div class="description">Romania is liberated and King Michael unconditionally surrenders to the Allies</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1962 </div>
<div class="description">Mariner 2, an American space probe to Venus, and the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter, is launched</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 1996 </div>
<div class="description">Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, allegedly writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 2005 </div>
<div class="description">Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends</div>
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<div class="date">August 23, 2006 </div>
<div class="description">In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped eight years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil who locked her up in his cellar; Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 634 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3860/33113682326_dfe7fc900a.jpg">Abu Bakr, successor of Mohammed and first Caliph, dies; Umar, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, becomes the second Caliph</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1138 </div>
<div class="description">The english defeat Scots at the battle of the Standard</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1236 </div>
<div class="description">Volkwin, the Master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, is defeated and killed by the Samogitians at the Battle of Saule which causes merging the order into the Teutonic Order</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1350 </div>
<div class="description">Philip VI of Valois, King of France, dies; John II of France succeeds</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1485 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wyorvO_wiVg" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>England's King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet kings, is killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, that ends the War of the Roses and establishes the Tudor dynasty in England</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1614 </div>
<div class="description">Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase and plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1642 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8722/17196633149_f0fff153f2.jpg">Civil war in England, resulted in the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king, begins as King Charles I declared war on the Puritan Parliament at Nottingham</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1676 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7710/17400168725_04815f6850.jpg">Ole Rømer, a Danish astronomer, publishes the first measurement of the speed of light based on the times of the eclipses of Io, the moon of Jupiter</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1717 </div>
<div class="description">The Austrian army under Eugene of Savoy force the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1787 </div>
<div class="description">Inventor John Fitch demonstrates his steamboat, the Perseverance, on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1791 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3688/18914133815_acf2f8ea16.jpg">Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state, begins in the French colony of Saint-Domingue</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1831 </div>
<div class="description">Nat Turner's Rebellion, a slave rebellion in Virginia, which claimed from 55 to 65 people, is suppressed by white militias</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1849 </div>
<div class="description">Earliest recorded air raid occurs, as Austria employs 200 balloons to deliver ordinance against Venice</div>
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<div class="date">February 12, 1851 </div>
<div class="description">Gold fields are discovered by gold prospector Edward Hargraves in New South Wales, Australia, starting Victorian gold rush</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1864 </div>
<div class="description">In Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of 12 nations agreed to sign the First Geneva Convention "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1875 </div>
<div class="description">Russia recognizes Japan's control over the 4 southernmost Kuril Islands and by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg and gets all rights over Sakhalin in exchange</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1910 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/780/20147565423_39e61eaa72.jpg">Imperial Japan annexes Korea bringing to a close the Joseon Dynasty and starting the modernization and industrialization in the peninsula</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1932 </div>
<div class="description">The British Broadcasting Corporation begins experimental regular TV broadcasts</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1942 </div>
<div class="description">Brazil declares war on Germany</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 1969 </div>
<div class="description">Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast and kills 255</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 2006 </div>
<div class="description">The International Congress of Mathematicians awards Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems, but Perelman refuses the medal</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 2007 </div>
<div class="description">Myanmar government arrests thirteen dissidents who led protests against huge rises in fuel prices</div>
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<div class="date">August 22, 2008 </div>
<div class="description">Pirates hijack German, Iranian, and Japanese cargo ships off the coast of Somalia, in seven such attacks since June 20</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_21'>August 21</a>, 1680 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7743/17400540181_06781284db_z.jpg">Pueblo Indians take possession of Santa Fe and drives the Spanish out of New Mexico until 1692 during the Pueblo Revolt</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1770 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3940/15515967755_1c39cc14b0.jpg">British navigator, James Cook formally claims the East Coast of Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales during his first voyage</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1808 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/462/19511260138_882dfd2306.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte's General Jean-Andoche Junot is defeated by British General Arthur Wellesley at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimeiro, Portugal</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1810 </div>
<div class="description">Sweden's Riksdag elects Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France under Napoleon, as heir apparent to the Swedish throne</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1841 </div>
<div class="description">John Hampson of New Orleans patents the Window blind</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1944 </div>
<div class="description">Dumbarton Oaks conference, which establishes United Nations, opens in Washington, DC</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1968 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/627/21186897312_a35549888b.jpg">Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia, at 12:50 AM announces a Soviet-led invasion, after Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement known as Prague Spring</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 1986 </div>
<div class="description">A limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in Cameroon triggers the sudden release of about 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide and causes death of 1,744 people</div>
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<div class="date">August 21, 2013 </div>
<div class="description">1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War, blamed on President Bashar al-Assad</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1191 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4303/36051782021_b8957ef1ea_c.jpg">Crusader King Richard I executes some 2,700 Muslim prisoners in Acre</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1530 </div>
<div class="description">Hayreddin Barbarossa, a Barbary pirate, unites Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman caliphate and becomes admiral of the Ottoman fleet</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1619 </div>
<div class="description">The first African slaves arrive to North America aboard a Dutch privateer and dock in Jamestown, Virginia, with twenty human captives among its cargo</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1672 </div>
<div class="description">Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland and key figure in Dutch politics, is assassinated by a carefully organized lynch mob by a shot in the neck, and his naked body is hanged and mutilated beside body of his brother Cornelis de Witt</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1745 </div>
<div class="description">Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Blair Castle, Scotland</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1847 </div>
<div class="description">General Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco, only 8 kilometers away from Mexico City</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1860 </div>
<div class="description">Robert O'Hara Burke leads a group of 15 men, 27 camels and 23 horses out of Melbourne on an expedition to cross Australia</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1913 </div>
<div class="description">Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first pilot to parachute from an aircraft</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1939 </div>
<div class="description">Soviet forces under Lieutenant General Georgi Zhukov successfully counterattack Japanese invaders at Nomanhan in the Mongolian People's Republic on the border with Manchukuo</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1940 </div>
<div class="description">Ramón Mercader, agent of Josef Stalin, fatally stabs Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 1956 </div>
<div class="description">The Calder Hall atomic power station begins operation in Cumberland, Great Britain, generating up to 90,000 kilowatts of power and manufacturing plutonium becoming the world's first power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale</div>
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<div class="date">August 20, 2011 </div>
<div class="description">In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_19'>August 19</a>, 1099 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4302/35794014900_b9a83c332c.jpg">Crusaders led by Frankish knight Godfrey of Bouillon beat Fatimid forces at Battle of Ascalon</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1399 </div>
<div class="description">King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, who returns to England to claim his inherited lands</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1493 </div>
<div class="description">Maximilian I succeeds his father Frederick III, who bleeds to death after the amputation of his left leg, as Holy Roman Emperor</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1524 </div>
<div class="description">Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1692 </div>
<div class="description">Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1700 </div>
<div class="description">Russia declares war on Sweden</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1772 </div>
<div class="description">Gustav III of Sweden eliminates the rule of parties, becoming almost an absolute monarch</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1779 </div>
<div class="description">Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1821 </div>
<div class="description">Navarino Massacre, a massacre of Turkish civilian population during Greek War of Independence, occurs</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1871 </div>
<div class="description">Orville Wright, aviation pioneer, is born in Dayton, Ohio</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1934 </div>
<div class="description">One day before the death of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor of Germany Hitler and his cabinet issue a decree, that dissolves the office of the president and make Hitler Führer of Germany</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1942 </div>
<div class="description">United States Marines land on Guadalcanal, Solomon Island starting the first American offensive in Pacific in World War II</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1953 </div>
<div class="description">Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran and the leading champion of secular democracy, is deposed in Iran by the British MI6 and the American CIA</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1988 </div>
<div class="description">Iran and Iraq begin a cease-fire after eight years of war</div>
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<div class="date">August 19, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup, during the failed coup attempt, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and seven hard-liners, and collapsed in less than 72 hours</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1227 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4293/36051281071_f7f9e0ef6e.jpg">Genghis Khan, a Mongol conqueror, dies, which triggers subsequent division of Mongol empire among his sons</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1459 </div>
<div class="description">City of Smederevo falls under the Turks after three-months siege completing the Ottoman conquest of Serbia</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1588 </div>
<div class="description">A storm strikes the remaining 60 ships of the Spanish Armada under the Duke Alonso Pérez de Guzmán after which only 11 are left. Many of the ships go to Ireland where most of the Spaniards are killed by the English</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1759 </div>
<div class="description">The French fleet is destroyed by the British under Admiral Edward Boscawen, at the battle of Lagos Bay in southern Portugal</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1807 </div>
<div class="description">Robert Stevenson begins work on the 35-meters Bell Rock lighthouse at the mouth of Scotland's Firth of Forth, the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1838 </div>
<div class="description">United States Exploring Expedition, an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands, led by Charles Wilkes, departs from Hampton Roads</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1846 </div>
<div class="description">General Stephen W. Kearny proclaims all of New Mexico a territory of the United States and declares himself the military governor of the New Mexico Territory shortly after Capture of Santa Fe</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1851 </div>
<div class="description">The Platine War for the hegemony over South America begins between the Argentine Confederation and Empire of Brazil and its alliance</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1862 </div>
<div class="description">Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota four young Sioux murder five white settlers at Acton Township, Minnesota</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1870 </div>
<div class="description">Prussian forces defeat the French at the Battle of Gravelotte, the largest battle during the Franco–Prussian War</div>
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<div class="date">August 18, 1920 </div>
<div class="description">Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving women right to vote, is ratified</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 18, 1920 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5538/31008697782_a35e715316.jpg">Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković links Earth's periodic long-term climate changes with orbital eccentricity and full cycles of Earth's axis precession, later called Milankovitch cycles</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 18, 1955 </div>
<div class="description">First Sudanese Civil War begins between the northern part of Sudan and the southern Sudan region</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-52911382786167515472017-08-16T19:38:00.001-07:002017-08-16T19:38:07.848-07:00August 17<ul id='eventslist'>
<li>
<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_17'>August 17</a>, 1743 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/588/21084779079_336f144c96.jpg">By the Treaty of Åbo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden's failed war with Russia</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1786 </div>
<div class="description">Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dies, and his nephew Frederick William II succeeds</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1807 </div>
<div class="description">Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, popularly known as the Clermont, begin heading up New York's Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany and becomes the first commercially successful steamboat</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1812 </div>
<div class="description">Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1869 </div>
<div class="description">Oxford beats Harvard on the Thames River in the first international boat race</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1877 </div>
<div class="description">Asaph Hall, an American astronomer, discovered the Mars moon Phobos</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1945 </div>
<div class="description">Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1960 </div>
<div class="description">Gabon gains independence from France</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1970 </div>
<div class="description">Venera 7, the first man-made spacecraft to land successfully on another planet, and to transmit data from there back to Earth, is launched by USSR</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1982 </div>
<div class="description">The first commercially available compact discs are released to the public in Germany</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1987 </div>
<div class="description">Rudolf Hess, a prominent politician in Nazi Germany, commits suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex in his cell at age 93 in Spandau Prison in Berlin, Germany, where he served 46 years</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 1998 </div>
<div class="description">Decline in commodity prices triggers financial crisis in Russia and discredits the government of President Boris Yeltsin</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 17, 2008 </div>
<div class="description">Michael Phelps wins his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games, in the 4x100 medley relay, in record time of 3:29.34 and holds the record for most gold medals at an Olympics event</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-24974076413449175222017-08-15T19:38:00.001-07:002017-08-15T19:38:30.803-07:00August 16<ul id='eventslist'>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1419 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4325/36170992785_8837f46f28_c.jpg">Wenceslaus IV, King of Germany and Charles IV's son, dies and is succeeded by Sigismund</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1513 </div>
<div class="description">Henry VIII of England and Emperor Maximilian crush the French at the Battle of the Spurs</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1777 </div>
<div class="description">American forces win the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1780 </div>
<div class="description">American troops under General Horatio Gates are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1793 </div>
<div class="description">French National Convention declares universal conscription in the Levée en masse</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1819 </div>
<div class="description">11 people are killed in the Peterloo massacre after English police charge into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 unemployed demonstrators at St. Peter's Field that have gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1829 </div>
<div class="description">The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston from Siam, now Thailand, aboard the ship Sachem to be exhibited to the Western world</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1940 </div>
<div class="description">Foreign Correspondent, American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is released</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 1943 </div>
<div class="description">Sicily is conquered by Allied forces during Operation Husky</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 2008 </div>
<div class="description">Russia signs a French-brokered peace plan with Georgia, ending their nine-day-old conflict</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 16, 2009 </div>
<div class="description">Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a 100 m world record (9.58) at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-37856659982580872512017-08-14T19:38:00.001-07:002017-08-14T19:38:04.381-07:00August 15<ul id='eventslist'>
<li>
<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_15'>August 15</a>, 636 </div>
<div class="description"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vJINgsdfswM" frameborder="0" height="330" width="100%"></iframe>At the Battle at Yarmuk Islamic forces under Khalid ibn al-Walid beat a Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius and gain control of Syria and Palestine</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 718 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7345/15797383604_a8197ee93b.jpg">The combined Byzantine–Bulgarian forces decisively defeat Umayyad navy using Greek fire after thirteen months of siege of Constantinople, stopping the Arab threat in Eastern Europe</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 778 </div>
<div class="description">The Basques, an ethnic group from western end of the Pyrenees, beat forces of Charlemagne and Roland, prefect of the Breton March, at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1040 </div>
<div class="description">Macbeth kills Duncan I at Pitgaveny and becomes the King of the Scots</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1057 </div>
<div class="description">Macbeth, the King of Scotland, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Lumphanan, by Malcolm Canmore, the eldest son of King Duncan I, who was killed by Macbeth 17 years earlier</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1261 </div>
<div class="description">Constantinople falls to Michael VIII Palaiologos who transforms the Empire of Nicaea into a restored Byzantine Empire</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1511 </div>
<div class="description">Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca and center of East Indian spice trade, is captured by Portuguese general Afonso de Albuquerque</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1519 </div>
<div class="description">Panama City is founded</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1549 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8564/16628786309_055b38400c_z.jpg">Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, lands in Kagoshima with the first Portuguese Jesuit missionary to rich Japan</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1598 </div>
<div class="description">Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads an Irish force to victory over the British at Battle of Yellow Ford</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1649 </div>
<div class="description">Oliver Cromwell lands in Ireland beginning the conquest of Ireland</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1760 </div>
<div class="description">Frederick II, king of Prussia, defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Liegnitz</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1769 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5632/23620545962_884cb25e85.jpg">Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and continental Europe, is born on the island of Corsica</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1799 </div>
<div class="description">Combined army of Austrians and Imperial Russians under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov beat French Revolutionary Army at Novi Ligure, Italy, recapturing lands taken by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1806 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/466/19509780990_34f4ae25b0.jpg">Construction of Arc de Triomphe, a triumphal arch in Paris, starts by order of Napoleon in honor of the victory at Austerlitz</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1865 </div>
<div class="description">Sir Joseph Lister discovers the antiseptic process while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, which led to a reduction in post-operative infections</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1867 </div>
<div class="description">Second Reform Bill extends suffrage in England giving the vote to the working classes</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1914 </div>
<div class="description">Panama Canal, one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects, officially opens in Panama, connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1935 </div>
<div class="description">Famed American aviator Wiley Post and humorist Will Rogers are killed in plane crash in Alaska</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1944 </div>
<div class="description">The Allies launch Operation Anvil, as a second Allied invasion force under Lieutenant-General Jacob Devers lands on the Mediterranean coast of France between Cannes and Toulon</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1947 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5792/21108711956_e49fb9654c.jpg">The greater Indian subcontinent formed by the Partition of India gain independence from the British Empire as Dominion of India, with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1948 </div>
<div class="description">Republic of Korea, South Korea, is proclaimed by an anti-Communist Syngman Rhee, who has been backed and appointed by the United States as head of the provisional government</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1969 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5833/21402210673_d160e7e837.jpg">Woodstock Music and Art Fair, widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, opens in New York State</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 15, 1971 </div>
<div class="description">US President Richard Nixon's administration refuses to settle foreign debts in gold at $35 per ounce, dropping the gold standard, and allowing the dollar to float in foreign exchanges, also imposes a 90-day wage and price freeze</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-1757990878806442762017-08-13T19:38:00.001-07:002017-08-13T19:38:13.709-07:00August 14<ul id='eventslist'>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 554 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4319/36003929432_b60e5bcb08.jpg">Ravenna becomes the seat of the Byzantine governor of Italy, the Exarch</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 582 </div>
<div class="description">Death of Tiberius II Constantine, emperor of Byzantine</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1248 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8652/16422256318_f827025694.jpg">The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, the Gothic church with the largest facade in the world, is laid by Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1281 </div>
<div class="description">Typhoon destroys Mongol fleet off the coast of Japan during the second Mongol attempt to conquer Japan</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1385 </div>
<div class="description">Portuguese under John I of Portugal defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota and regained independence from Crown of Castile</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1385 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8627/16725312575_fd27ba16db.jpg">Union of Krewo, an act between Poland and Lithuania by which Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, converts to Christianity in exchange for marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland, is signed in Kreva Castle, modern-day Belarus</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1457 </div>
<div class="description">Gutenberg's financier Johann Fust and calligrapher Peter Schöffer publish Mainz Psalter, the second major book printed with movable type in the West</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1498 </div>
<div class="description">Columbus lands at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela, a continental landmass of South America</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1756 </div>
<div class="description">French commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm takes Fort Oswego, New England, from the British</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1784 </div>
<div class="description">Three Saints Bay, the first Russian settlement in Alaska is established on Kodiak Island by Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1790 </div>
<div class="description">Sweden and Russian come to peace at Värälä, by which neither side gains any territory and Russia agrees to not interfere with Sweden's constitution</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1791 </div>
<div class="description">Haitian slaves, led by voodoo priest Dutty Boukman, gather to plan a revolution</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1793 </div>
<div class="description">Republican troops in France lay siege to the city of Lyon</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1816 </div>
<div class="description">Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1842 </div>
<div class="description">Seminole War ends as Indians remove from Florida to Oklahoma and United States officer William Worth declares the war to be at an end</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1880 </div>
<div class="description">Construction of Cologne Cathedral, begun in 1248, is completed</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1893 </div>
<div class="description">Paris Police Ordinance, France, issues first driving licenses, includes required test</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1900 </div>
<div class="description">Eight-Nation Alliance successfully storm and occupy Beijing after about 2 months of siege of the city during the Boxer Rebellion </div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1935 </div>
<div class="description">The Social Security Act, signed by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, creates the Social Security system and introduces federal assistance for the elderly</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1941 </div>
<div class="description">US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill create the Atlantic Charter, the basis for their wartime alliance, pledging to seek to gain no territory and desire no territory changes outside of the choices of people</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1947 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/616/20946607978_e17b5ab034.jpg">The Muslim majority region, formed by the Partition of India, gain independence from the British Empire as Dominion of Pakistan, which results in the largest mass migration in human history</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1971 </div>
<div class="description">Bahrain declares its independence from Britain</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 14, 1971 </div>
<div class="description">British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-10514507249490050612017-08-12T19:37:00.001-07:002017-08-12T19:37:36.660-07:00August 13<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_13'>August 13</a>, 604 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4329/36003614022_3e8c40a033_c.jpg">Chinese emperor Wen is murdered by Yang, his son, who succeeds the throne</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1415 </div>
<div class="description">King Henry V of England takes his army across the English Channel and lays siege on Port Harfleur in Normandy</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1521 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7646/16808912005_84fb3f6190.jpg">Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez conquers the Mexican city of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City, after an 85-day battle and completes conquest of Aztec Empire</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1624 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7739/17172929397_9fb4c9eacd.jpg">French King Louis XIII names Cardinal Richelieu his first minister who becomes the world's first Prime Minister and begins to transform France into a centralized state</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1630 </div>
<div class="description">Emperor Frederick II fires Albrecht von Wallenstein, his best military commander</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1642 </div>
<div class="description">Christiaan Huygens, a prominent Dutch mathematician, discovers the Martian south polar cap</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1645 </div>
<div class="description">At Brömsebro peace is signed between Sweden and Denmark. Sweden gains the islands of Gotland and Halland from Denmark, Norway cedes to Sweden the northern provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1704 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8827/17808677759_c0bf17b275.jpg">The Battle of Blenheim, the turning point of the War of the Spanish Succession, results in decisive English and Austrian forces victory under Prince Eugene of Savoy and Duke of Marlborough over the Franco-Bavarian army</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1787 </div>
<div class="description">The Russian ambassador to the Ottomans, Yakov Bulgakov, is thrown into prison and the Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia starting the Russo–Turkish War of 1787–1792</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1792 </div>
<div class="description">Louis XVI of France is declared an enemy of the people and imprisoned with the French royal family, including Marie Antoinette, by revolutionaries</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1814 </div>
<div class="description">Netherland is signed to stop the transport of slaves and returns its colonial possessions before the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars by Treaty of London</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1826 </div>
<div class="description">Alexander Gordon Laing, British Army Major, crosses on camel the Sahara Desert from Tripoli and becomes the first European to enter the fabled city of Timbuktu in Mali</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1849 </div>
<div class="description">Hungary's General Artúr Görgey surrender to the Russian forces, who invaded Hungary to help Austrian Empire in struggle against Hungarian rebellions</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1868 </div>
<div class="description">In Arica, Peru, a magnitude 8.5-9.0 earthquake occurs, with catastrophic tsunamis killing 25,000 in South America</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1876 </div>
<div class="description">Richard Wagner's monumental epic, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" is first performed in its entirety at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1898 </div>
<div class="description">Manila, the capital of the Philippines, falls to the United States Army under Admiral George Dewey</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1913 </div>
<div class="description">Harry Brearley, an English metallurgist, produces the first stainless steel</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1918 </div>
<div class="description">Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is established as a public company for aircraft-engine production in Germany</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1923 </div>
<div class="description">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of the newly established Republic of Turkey</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1960 </div>
<div class="description">Central African Republic proclaims independence from France</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 13, 1961 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/642/21813967555_b42ee7e956.jpg">The units of the East German army close the border and begin building of the Berlin Wall</div>
</li>
</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-38212655714717104242017-08-11T19:38:00.001-07:002017-08-11T19:38:28.899-07:00August 12<ul id='eventslist'>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 30 BC </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8630/16237852195_9214e6831c.jpg">Cleopatra, the most famous queen and the last active pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, kills herself by inducing an Egyptian cobra to bite her after her beloved Mark Antony's suicide</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1093 </div>
<div class="description">In England the foundation stone for Durham Cathedral is laid down</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1332 </div>
<div class="description">Rebels supporting the Balliol beat forces of the infant David II, the son of Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in Scotland</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1399 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7451/27178817416_d4da3b2c1d_c.jpg">Battle of the Vorskla River, a major battle between joint armies of Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania, and the Tatars, under Edigu and Temur Qutlugh, ends in a decisive Tatar victory </div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1508 </div>
<div class="description">Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish explorer, arrives to New World to conquer the Puerto Rico</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1648 </div>
<div class="description">Seven-year-old Mehmed IV succeeds Ibrahim in the Ottoman House of Osman</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1687 </div>
<div class="description">At the Battle of Mohács, Hungary, the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, commanded by Charles of Lorraine defeated the Turks</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1759 </div>
<div class="description">Forces of Frederick the Great are defeated by combined army of Russians and Austrians under Pyotr Saltykov at Kunersdorf, which gives the victors the opportunity to march against Berlin</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1812 </div>
<div class="description">British commander the Duke of Wellington occupies Madrid, Spain, forcing out Joseph Bonaparte</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1851 </div>
<div class="description">Isaac Singer, the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, is granted a patent for his sewing machine</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1883 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/371/20164704808_03a4d4915a.jpg">The last quagga, subspecies of the plains zebra, dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="date">August 12, 1896 </div>
<div class="description">Gold is discovered at Dawson on the Klondike River in Alaska, triggering Klondike Gold Rush in Canada</div>
</li>
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<div class="date">August 12, 1981 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5695/21373674589_273a3bd9ce.jpg">At the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, and in Boca Raton, Florida, IBM announces the model 5150, called IBM Personal Computer, a progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform</div>
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<div class="date">August 12, 1982 </div>
<div class="description">Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spreads throughout Latin America</div>
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<div class="date">August 12, 1985 </div>
<div class="description">Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people becoming the worst single-aircraft disaster in history</div>
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<div class="date">August 12, 1990 </div>
<div class="description">The largest and most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, called "Sue", is discovered near Faith, South Dakota</div>
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<div class="date">August 12, 2000 </div>
<div class="description">The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board</div>
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</ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13626402926818216595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769275422148918268.post-88474069393965918402017-08-10T20:03:00.001-07:002017-08-10T20:03:55.443-07:00August 11<ul id='eventslist'>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_11'>August 11</a>, 3114 BC </div>
<div class="description">The Mayan calendar, a system of calendars consisting of several counts of different lengths, begins in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 117 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4296/36002944742_62169588bc.jpg">The Roman army of Syria hail its legate, Hadrian, as emperor, which made the senate's formal acceptance an almost meaningless event</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 991 </div>
<div class="description">Danes under Olaf Tryggvason defeat Anglo-Saxons forces at Battle of Maldon and kill Ealdorman of Essex Byrhtnoth</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 1804 </div>
<div class="description">Austrian Empire is proclaimed by Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, who assumes the title of the first Emperor of Austria, as a reaction to Napoleon making himself an emperor</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 1918 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/601/22011105322_6dca9d8ebf.jpg">Battle of Amiens, the opening phase of the Allied offensive against Germany, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, ends with Allied victory</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 11, 1960 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5733/20983115118_0e0a80359f.jpg">Chad declares independence from France and becomes one of seventeen nations in Africa to gain independence in 1960, what became known as Year of Africa</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 1966 </div>
<div class="description">Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ends after Indonesian General Suharto sign peace agreement with Malaysia</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 1984 </div>
<div class="description">United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes"</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 2003 </div>
<div class="description">A heat wave in Paris causes temperatures up to 44 degrees C</div>
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<div class="date">August 11, 2009 </div>
<div class="description">The Perseid meteor showers peak at 200 observations per hour</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 843 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3845/15079395750_2ba50dac82.jpg">Sons of Louis the Pious divide Charlemagne's Empire by Treaty of Verdun, so Charles the Bald receives the western portion, which later became France, Louis the German get eastern lands, later the medieval kingdom of Germany, and Lothair I receives the central part</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1497 </div>
<div class="description">John Cabot told King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia" after his return from his first successful journey to the Labrador coast</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1500 </div>
<div class="description">Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias discovers Madagascar</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1539 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8617/16786143236_fd77fc7009.jpg">King Francis I of France signs edict known as Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, declaring that all official documents are to be written in French, not Latin</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1557 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5664/31124815055_2b6187a83f.jpg">Spanish and English troops in alliance defeat the French at the Battle of St. Quentin (San Quintino)</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1582 </div>
<div class="description">Russia ends its 25-year war with Poland and cedes Livonia and Estonia to Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth losing access to the Baltic</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1627 </div>
<div class="description">Cardinal Richelieu begins a siege to Protestant La Rochelle, a Huguenot stronghold</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1628 </div>
<div class="description">The Swedish 69-meter warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbor on her maiden voyage because the ballast is insufficient to counterweight the 64 guns and ballast</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1675 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7789/17213210099_fa77b2f3cb.jpg">King of England Charles II lays the foundation stone of Royal Observatory in Greenwich, an important institution in the history of astronomy and navigation</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1678 </div>
<div class="description">The Treaty of Nijmegen ends the hostilities with France and gives to France control over the region of the Franche-Comté</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1680 </div>
<div class="description">In New Mexico Popé, a Tewa religious leader, leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 10, 1755 </div>
<div class="description">The Great Upheaval, forced population transfer of the French Acadian population from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, begins</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1779 </div>
<div class="description">Louis XVI of France frees the last remaining serfs on royal land</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 10, 1787 </div>
<div class="description">Mozart completes his composition Eine Kleine Nachtmusik</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 10, 1792 </div>
<div class="description">Some 20,000 Parisians attack the Tuileries palace of Louis XVI at the instigation of Georges Jacques Danton and massacre some 600 guardsmen after Louis orders his Swiss guard to stop firing on the people</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1809 </div>
<div class="description">Quito, the seat of a real audiencia of Spain in modern-day Ecuador, declares independence from Spain</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1861 </div>
<div class="description">Union general Nathaniel Lyon the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri, which ends with a Confederate victory</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 10, 1913 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/675/20593978548_22d5d0f1bd.jpg">Second Balkan War ends with Treaty of Bucharest, which confirms territorial acquisitions of Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria at the expense of Ottoman Empire during the First and Second Balkan Wars</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 1927 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/626/21191346254_bc3b7147d2.jpg">United States President Calvin Coolidge formally dedicates the Mount Rushmore site</div>
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<div class="date">August 10, 2010 </div>
<div class="description">The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_9'>August 9</a>, 48 BC </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4316/35771558660_9e3858a8b4.jpg">Dictator of the Roman Republic Julius Caesar defeats Senatorial army under Gnaeus Pompeius in the battle of Pharsalus in central Greece, the decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 14 </div>
<div class="description">Augustus, the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, dies and his adopted son Tiberius succeeds to the throne</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 378 </div>
<div class="description">Cavalry of Visigoth, a branch of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples, destroys Roman army and kills emperor Valens at battle of Adrianople</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 910 </div>
<div class="description">King Edward of Wessex, son of Alfred the Great, defeats the Northumbrian Vikings at the Battle of Tettenhall</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1378 </div>
<div class="description">Cardinals declare Pope Urban VI lawless, anti-Christian, and devil</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1483 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5666/20512543620_63512f0e7e.jpg">Pope Sixtus IV celebrates the first mass in the Sistine Chapel, chapel in the official residence of the Pope, named in his honor</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1805 </div>
<div class="description">Austria joins Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the Third Coalition against Napoleonic France and Spain</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 9, 1842 </div>
<div class="description">United States-Canada border is defined by Webster–Ashburton Treaty</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1855 </div>
<div class="description">Antonio López de Santa Anna resigns for the 11th and the last time as President of Mexico</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1896 </div>
<div class="description">Otto Lilienthal, German aerodynamic engineer, makes his last glide when his glider No. 11 is upset by a sudden gust of wind and he is unable to regain control</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1936 </div>
<div class="description">American track and field athlete Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, so is called "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy"</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1942 </div>
<div class="description">British arrest Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee in Bombay</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1945 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5684/21767156706_980440a857.jpg">Fat Man, an implosion-type atomic bomb with a plutonium core, is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing outright 35,000-40,000 people and thousands more from the effect of burns and radiation sickness during the following months</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1965 </div>
<div class="description">Singapore gains independence from Malaysia</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 1974 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5741/21359233170_fa2193177e.jpg">Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, resigns from office as a result of the Watergate Scandal, triggered by break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex</div>
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<div class="date">August 9, 2007 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/613/21431759660_c3b7810d79.jpg">The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in subprime mortgages, signaling the beginning of Great Recession</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 70 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4303/35356231153_c62de71efd.jpg">Antonia Fortress is destroyed by the Romans during the siege of Jerusalem</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 117 </div>
<div class="description">Trajan, emperor of Rome, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 869 </div>
<div class="description">Lothair II, King of Lotharingia, dies</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 870 </div>
<div class="description">Kingdom of Lotharingia, realm of Lothair II, who died some monthes ago, is devided between his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia by the Treaty of Meerssen</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1579 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/762/23782393311_30b45d5f9e.jpg">Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory, the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe, by order of Frederick II, King of Denmark</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1588 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7600/16887706466_1105d4acd4.jpg">The English Navy destroy the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines which opens the world for English trade and colonization</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1700 </div>
<div class="description">Denmark signs the peace treaty of Travendal with Sweden during the Great Northern War</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1709 </div>
<div class="description">In Lisbon, Bartolomeu de Gusmão manages to lift a balloon full of hot air about 4.5 meters in front of King John V and the Portuguese court, which becomes the first documented balloon flight in Europe</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1736 </div>
<div class="description">Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem or leader, dies of smallpox while waiting to see King George II to complain directly about British settlers encroaching on tribal lands in the Connecticut colony</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1786 </div>
<div class="description">Savoyard mountain guide Jacques Balmat and doctor Michel-Gabriel Paccard become the first men to climb Mont Blanc in France</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1788 </div>
<div class="description">King Louis XVI calls the Estates General, which have not met since 1614, because of loosing of power</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1815 </div>
<div class="description">Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for Saint Helena, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, to spend the remainder of his days in exile</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1846 </div>
<div class="description">David Wilmot, an American politic, offers to ban slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War in his speech in the United States House of Representatives, the event known as the Wilmot Proviso</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1897 </div>
<div class="description">Anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinates Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spain, and Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero becomes prime minister of Spain</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1919 </div>
<div class="description">British recognize Afghanistan's independence with Treaty of Rawalpindi</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1945 </div>
<div class="description">USSR establishes a communist government in the northern half of the occupied Korean peninsula, stopping along 38th parallel after invasion of Manchuria, per the agreement with the United States</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1949 </div>
<div class="description">Bhutan becomes an independent monarchy after Treaty of Friendship between India and Bhutan</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 8, 1963 </div>
<div class="description">Great Train Robbery occurs in England, 2.6 million pounds, or US$7.3 million</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1988 </div>
<div class="description">Thousands of protesters in Myanmar are killed during anti-government demonstrations, which leads to a bloody military coup</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 1991 </div>
<div class="description">The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses</div>
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<div class="date">August 8, 2008 08:08</div>
<div class="description">An estimated one billion people worldwide watch the opening ceremonies of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad on TV</div>
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<div class="date"><a href='https://historystack.com/August_7'>August 7</a>, 936 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4329/36162808965_fda80e346a.jpg">Otto the Great is crowned as King of Germany in Charlemagne's former capital of Aachen, known in French as Aix-la-Chapelle, after death his father Henry the Fowler</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1485 </div>
<div class="description">Henry Tudor's army landed in Milford Haven, South-Wales</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1620 </div>
<div class="description">Kepler's mother is arrested for witchcraft</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1620 </div>
<div class="description">French king Louis XIII beats forces of his mother Marie de Medici at the Battle at Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou ending a civil war</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1714 </div>
<div class="description">Battle of Gangut between Swedish Navy and Imperial Russian Navy during Great Northern War becomes the first victory of the Russian fleet in its history</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1760 </div>
<div class="description">Fort Loudon, Tennessee, surrender to Cherokee Indians</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1782 </div>
<div class="description">A statue of Peter the Great, made by French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet, is unveiled in Saint Petersburg on the 100th anniversary of his accession to the throne</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1814 </div>
<div class="description">Pope Pius VII reinstated the Jesuits</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1819 </div>
<div class="description">South American liberator Simón Bolívar defeats Spanish forces under General Jose Barreiro in New Granada, Colombia at the Battle of Boyaca</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1839 </div>
<div class="description">Shah Shujah Durrani, the leader of the Abdali group of Pashtuns people, is installed as Afghan "puppet king" by the British after successful invasion of Afghanistan</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1947 </div>
<div class="description">Kon-Tiki expedition, journey across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands to demonstrate that people from pre-Columbian America could have made long sea voyages, led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, is completed</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1955 </div>
<div class="description">Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 1960 </div>
<div class="description">Ivory Coast gains independence from France</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1964 </div>
<div class="description">US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gives to President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization to use military force in Southeast Asia</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1995 </div>
<div class="description">Operation Storm, launched by Croatian against Serbian forces in Krajina, ends with a United Nations-brokered ceasefire and start of surrendering of remaining Serbian forces</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1998 </div>
<div class="description">The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, linked to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500</div>
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<div class="date">August 7, 1999 </div>
<div class="description"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5624/21595932852_f91230a06a.jpg">The Russian Federation begins Second Chechen War in response to the invasion of hundreds of Chechen guerrillas in the Russian republic of Dagestan</div>
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<li>
<div class="date">August 7, 2008 </div>
<div class="description">Georgia sends its army to regain control of South Ossetia which has had de facto independence since 1992, beginning Russia–Georgia war</div>
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