Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 27, 1991 | Moldova declares independence from the USSR. |
| August 31, 1864 | During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta. |
| August 24, 367 | Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. |
| August 6, 1965 | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. |
| August 21, 1878 | The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
| August 13, 1990 | A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident. |
| August 30, 1721 | The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. |
| August 30, 1914 | World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg. |
| August 4, 1984 | The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. |
| August 31, 2006 | Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. |
| August 27, 1982 | Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:r |
| August 17, 1918 | Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
| August 31, 1959 | A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. |
| August 31, 1972 | Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard. |
| August 16, 1954 | The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published. |
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