Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
Here is a list of some historical events in August. You can learn What major event happened in August?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 29, 1918 | World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. |
| August 14, 1893 | France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. |
| August 27, 1922 | Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece. |
| August 17, 1958 | Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. |
| August 30, 1936 | The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing. |
| August 30, 1918 | Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. |
| August 29, 1588 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance, disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power. |
| 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 10, 1969 | A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. |
| August 23, 1991 | The World Wide Web is opened to the public. |
| August 5, 1068 | Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari. |
| August 20, 1940 | In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day. |
| August 10, 1949 | An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense. |
| August 14, 2022 | An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens. |
| August 23, 1572 | French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. |
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