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  1. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

    Gepubliceerd: 23-8-2024
  2. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

    Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2024
  3. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

    Gepubliceerd: 21-8-2024
  4. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

    Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2024
  5. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

    Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2024
  6. 18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

    Gepubliceerd: 18-8-2024
  7. 17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

    Gepubliceerd: 17-8-2024
  8. 16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

    Gepubliceerd: 16-8-2024
  9. 15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

    Gepubliceerd: 15-8-2024
  10. 14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

    Gepubliceerd: 14-8-2024
  11. 13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

    Gepubliceerd: 13-8-2024
  12. 12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

    Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2024
  13. 11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

    Gepubliceerd: 11-8-2024
  14. 10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

    Gepubliceerd: 10-8-2024
  15. 9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

    Gepubliceerd: 9-8-2024
  16. 8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

    Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2024
  17. 7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

    Gepubliceerd: 7-8-2024
  18. 6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

    Gepubliceerd: 6-8-2024
  19. 5th August 1962: Nelson Mandela arrested and jailed in South Africa

    Gepubliceerd: 5-8-2024
  20. 4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

    Gepubliceerd: 4-8-2024

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