383 Odcinki

  1. 25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

    Opublikowany: 25.08.2024
  2. 24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

    Opublikowany: 24.08.2024
  3. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

    Opublikowany: 23.08.2024
  4. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

    Opublikowany: 22.08.2024
  5. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

    Opublikowany: 21.08.2024
  6. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

    Opublikowany: 20.08.2024
  7. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

    Opublikowany: 19.08.2024
  8. 18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

    Opublikowany: 18.08.2024
  9. 17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

    Opublikowany: 17.08.2024
  10. 16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

    Opublikowany: 16.08.2024
  11. 15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

    Opublikowany: 15.08.2024
  12. 14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

    Opublikowany: 14.08.2024
  13. 13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

    Opublikowany: 13.08.2024
  14. 12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

    Opublikowany: 12.08.2024
  15. 11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

    Opublikowany: 11.08.2024
  16. 10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

    Opublikowany: 10.08.2024
  17. 9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

    Opublikowany: 9.08.2024
  18. 8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

    Opublikowany: 8.08.2024
  19. 7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

    Opublikowany: 7.08.2024
  20. 6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

    Opublikowany: 6.08.2024

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