Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 21, 1140 | Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars. |
| August 24, 1690 | Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown). |
| August 28, 1957 | U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. |
| August 1, 1944 | World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. |
| August 2, 1989 | Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972. |
| August 23, 1989 | Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands. |
| August 25, 1912 | The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking. |
| August 2, 1343 | After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports. |
| August 27, 1955 | The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain. |
| August 28, 1850 | Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar. |
| August 23, 1921 | British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive. |
| August 24, 1789 | The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland. |
| August 1, 1798 | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. |
| August 15, 1975 | Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. |
| August 27, 1991 | The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
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