Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 8, 1967 | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. |
| August 24, 1643 | A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile. |
| August 5, 2019 | The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh). |
| August 2, 1377 | Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River. |
| August 16, 1946 | The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad. |
| August 7, 1789 | The United States Department of War is established. |
| August 31, 1056 | After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. |
| August 5, 1305 | First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of Menteith, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture Sir William Wallace of Scotland, leading to Wallace's subsequent execution by hanging, evisceration, drawing and quartering, and beheading 18 days later. |
| August 25, 2012 | Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so. |
| August 1, 1911 | Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate. |
| August 31, 1999 | The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. |
| August 29, 1756 | Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe. |
| August 24, 1682 | William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. |
| August 11, 106 | The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia. |
| August 22, 1991 | Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states. |
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