Historical Events in August, Month of August Events

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August 11, 1992 The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
August 30, 2014 Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
August 18, 1304 The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
August 1, 1863 At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights were promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
August 28, 1898 Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
August 4, 1972 Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
August 11, 2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
August 7, 2020 Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
August 19, 2013 The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
August 5, 1962 Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
August 12, 1676 Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
August 29, 1966 Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
August 8, 1963 The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
August 17, 1866 The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.
August 1, 1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.

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