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1. 24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

   Gepubliceerd: 24-8-2024
2. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

   Gepubliceerd: 23-8-2024
3. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

   Gepubliceerd: 22-8-2024
4. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

   Gepubliceerd: 21-8-2024
5. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

   Gepubliceerd: 20-8-2024
6. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

   Gepubliceerd: 19-8-2024
7. 18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

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

   Gepubliceerd: 17-8-2024
9. 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
10. 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
11. 14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

    Gepubliceerd: 14-8-2024
12. 13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

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

    Gepubliceerd: 12-8-2024
14. 11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

    Gepubliceerd: 11-8-2024
15. 10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

    Gepubliceerd: 10-8-2024
16. 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
17. 8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

    Gepubliceerd: 8-8-2024
18. 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
19. 6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

    Gepubliceerd: 6-8-2024
20. 5th August 1962: Nelson Mandela arrested and jailed in South Africa

    Gepubliceerd: 5-8-2024