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August 8, 1870 | The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. |
August 12, 1914 | World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium. |
August 1, 2007 | The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. |
August 8, 1940 | The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. |
August 1, 1980 | A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland. |
August 21, 1993 | NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. |
August 24, 1215 | Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid. |
August 20, 1948 | Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case. |
August 25, 1985 | Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith. |
August 30, 1800 | Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. |
August 24, 2017 | The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space. |
August 11, 1988 | A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. |
August 22, 2006 | Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal. |
August 18, 1848 | Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. |
August 28, 1189 | Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan. |
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