Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 5, 1858 | Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month. |
| August 21, 959 | Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. |
| August 20, 1949 | Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People’s Republic. |
| August 28, 1936 | Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps. |
| August 8, 1918 | World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). |
| August 12, 1953 | First thermonuclear bomb test: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a "layered" scheme. |
| August 31, 1314 | King Haakon V of Norway moves the capital from Bergen to Oslo. |
| August 1, 1914 | The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I. |
| August 6, 1787 | Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| August 4, 1873 | American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed. |
| August 23, 1975 | The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan |
| August 21, 2013 | Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria. |
| August 30, 1974 | A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities. |
| August 29, 1965 | The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| August 15, 1038 | King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him. |
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