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 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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