Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
Here is a list of some historical events in August. You can learn What major event happened in August?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 12, 1960 | Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. |
| August 24, 1870 | The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. |
| August 5, 1388 | The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn. |
| August 12, 2015 | At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China. |
| August 24, 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| August 28, 1901 | Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country. |
| August 8, 1929 | The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. |
| August 28, 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. |
| August 19, 1964 | Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics. |
| August 17, 1976 | A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.[12] |
| August 29, 1998 | Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. |
| August 22, 2006 | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. |
| August 19, 1991 | Crown Heights riot begins. |
| August 9, 1945 | World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. |
| August 7, 1743 | The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.[9] |
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