Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 27, 1971 | An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations. |
| August 25, 2011 | Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas. |
| August 18, 1958 | Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors. |
| August 27, 1593 | Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France. |
| August 1, 1876 | Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. |
| August 9, 1944 | Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war. |
| August 9, 2021 | The Tampere light rail officially started operating. |
| August 15, 1907 | Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. |
| August 28, 1968 | Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching". |
| August 26, 1863 | The Swedish-language liberal newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad proposed the current blue-and-white cross flag as the flag of Finland. |
| August 20, 636 | Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. |
| August 12, 1793 | The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two. |
| August 1, 1842 | The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. |
| August 23, 2012 | A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others. |
| August 15, 1824 | The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states. |
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