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August 31 
 2005  Football: An early-round FA Cup match in England sets the record for the most penalty kicks taken.
August 31 
 2006  Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered in a police raid, more than two years after it was stolen.
August 31 
 2016  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office; Michel Temer succeeds her as President.
August 31 
 2018  A six-hour-long funeral takes place for American soul singer Aretha Franklin in Detroit, Michigan.
August 31 
 1748  Jean Etienne Despreaux, French dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright (d. 1820)
August 24 
 1516 - The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Maq Dabiq.
August 24 
 1572 – St. Batholomew's Day massacre: Start of a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) under the orders of King Charles IX of France.
August 24 
 1812 - Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British and Portuguese forces succeeds in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cadiz.
August 24 
 1821 - The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in present-day Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
August 24 
 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, which bans the American Communist Party.
August 24 
 1960 - At -88.3 degrees Celsius, the lowest-ever temperature up until that point, is measured at the Soviet Vostok Research Station in Antarctica.
August 24 
 This record stands until 1983, when, also at the Vostok Station, the even colder temperature of -89.2 degrees Celsius is measured.
August 24 
 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
August 24 
 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Prime Minister of Poland, becoming the first non-Communist leader of Poland in the post-World War II period.
August 24 
 1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling, by commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
August 24 
 1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization about partial self-rule in the Palestinians in the West Bank
August 24 
 2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the mid-Atlantic Ocean, making a safe emergency landing on the island of Terceira, Azores.
August 24 
 2006 – The definition of the word planet is changed, therefore stripping Pluto of its planet status, making it a dwarf planet.
August 24 
 The host nation, the People's Republic of China, wins the most gold medals, ahead of the United States.
August 24 
 2012 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he is no-longer fighting doping allegations, and is stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
August 24 
 2012 - Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane by a court in Oslo, and sentenced to 21 years in prison for the 2011 Norway attacks, in which he had killed 77 people.
August 24 
 2016 - The discovery of "Proxima Centauri b", a planet orbiting around the star Proxima Centauri, is announced.
August 24 
 2018 - Scott Morrison becomes the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, after defeating Peter Dutton in a contest to replace Malcolm Turnbull.
August 24 
 2005 – Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 1941)
August 25 
 450  Pulcheria becomes Empress of the Byzantine Empire after her brother Theodosius II is killed during a hunting accident.
August 25 
 1248  The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, Archbishop of Utrecht.
August 25 
 1537  The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and second most senior, is founded.
August 25 
 1778  Triglav in the Julian Alps, which is Slovenia's highest peak, is successfully climbed for the first time, by Lovrenc Willomitzer.
August 25 
 1875  Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel, from Dover, England, UK to Calais, France.
August 25 
 1898  700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mon in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
August 25 
 1914  World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.
August 25 
 1920  Polish-Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends as the Red Army is defeated.
August 25 
 1927  Japanese destroyer Warabi sinks after a collision with the light cruiser Jintsu, killing 102 people.
August 25 
 1939  The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the United Kingdom promises to defend Poland in the case of invasion by a foreign power.
August 25 
 Nazi Germany invades Poland just a week later, after which the United Kingdom and France both declare war on Germany on September 3.
August 25 
 1945  Ten days after the Japanese surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill American Baptist missionary John Birch.
August 25 
 1975  Australian band, the Little River Band puts out its first recording, Curiosity Killed the Cat.
August 25 
 1991  Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of Vukovar begins, as an 87-day siege in the city of Vukovar begins, by the Yugoslav People's Army, supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces.
August 25 
 1992  Siege of Sarajevo: The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is deliberately set on fire, with thousands of irreplaceable works being destroyed.
August 25 
 1997  Former leader of East Germany Egon Krenz is convicted of ordering a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
August 25 
 2002  For the first time, in election for Chancellor of Germany, the main candidates face each other in a television debate.
August 25 
 2003  The Delta II rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the Spitzer space telescope into space.
August 25 
 On the same day, neighboring Syria announces it will allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, during its civil war.
August 25 
 2017  Riots in Northern India result in at least 36 deaths, after the rape conviction of religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
August 25 
 1803  Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian army officer, politician and monarchist (d. 1880)
August 25 
 1822  Gardiner Greene Hubbard, American lawyer, philanthropist and 1st President of the National Geographic Society (d. 1897)
August 25 
 1841  Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
August 25 
 2018  John McCain, American politician, United States Senator for Arizona and former Presidential candidate (b. 1936)
August 26 
 1278  Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar I of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in then-Moravia.
August 26 
 1444  Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered forces of Swiss Confederates is defeated by Dauphin Louis (future King Louis IX of France) and his army near Basel.
August 26 
 1789  The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Assembly at the Palace of Versailles.
August 26 
 1810  Former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
August 26 
 1813  War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Russian-Prussian forces accidentally run into each other near what is now Legnica, Poland.
August 26 
 1814  Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
August 26 
 1878  Uyedineniya Island (also known as Lonely Island), one of Russia's remotest islands, located in the Arctic Ocean, is discovered by Norwegian seafarer Edvard Holm Johannesen.
August 26 
 1883  Krakatoa's 1883 eruption reaches its final stage, ending in a major explosion and tsunamis the following day.
August 26 
 1914  World War I: French and British forces invade the then-German colony of Togoland, (covering present-day Togo and western Ghana) in West Africa, taking it after five days.
August 26 
 1920  An amendment to the United States Constitution allows women in the United States the right to vote.
August 26 
 1922  The Japanese cruiser Niitaka sinks in a storm off the west coast of Kamchatka, eastern Russia, killing all 400 people on board.
August 26 
 1940  World War II: Under Governor Felix Eboue, Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies.
August 26 
 1942  Holocaust: In Chortkiav, Eastern Ukraine, German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120 people and deports them to Belzec Death Camp.
August 26 
 1970  The then-New Feminist Movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a women's national strike, for equality.
August 26 
 1972  The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich begin, officially opened by German President Gustav Heinemann.
August 26 
 1988  Aung San Suu Kyi holds a pro-democracy speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma as part of the 8888 Revolution.
August 26 
 1999  Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the invasion of Dagestan, by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
August 26 
 2008  Russia unilaterally recognises the Republic of Georgia's break-away territories Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
August 26 
 2018  Jacksonville Landing shooting: A participant at a gaming competition in Jacksonville, Florida shoots two people dead before turning the gun on himself.
August 26 
 1850  Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935).
August 26 
 1875  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist and Governor-General of Canada (d. 1940).
August 26 
 2014  Samuel Sadela, Nigerian pastor, claimant to world's oldest man title (b. either in or after 1900)
August 27 
 479 BC  Battle of Plataea ends the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.
August 27 
 1597  Japan defeats Korea in the Naval Battle of Chilchonryang during the Imjin War, following several mistakes by the Korean admiral Won Gyun.
August 27 
 1664  After officially taking control of the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, British colonists rename it New York.
August 27 
 1728  On this date in the Gregorian calendar, Vitus Bering lands on the Diomede Islands in the now-named Bering Strait between Alaska, now in the US, and the Russian far east.
August 27 
 1776  Battle of Long Island, in present-day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
August 27 
 1810  The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbor of Grand Port and Ile de France.
August 27 
 1820  Along with two other people, Josef Naus becomes the first person to climb Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany.
August 27 
 1883  The after effects caused by the Krakatoa explosion in Indonesia kill over 36,000 people, as the eruption ends in a loud explosion, which causes deadly tsunamis.
August 27 
 1927  Five Canadian women file a petition  to the Supreme Court of Canada asking whether the word 'persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act of 1867, includes female persons.
August 27 
 1943  World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.
August 27 
 1952  Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
August 27 
 1975  The Governor of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) abandons his capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
August 27 
 1990  The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming.
August 27 
 1991  The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
August 27 
 1993  The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
August 27 
 2003  Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
August 27 
 2005  The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden, which is the tallest residential building in Europe, is opened.
August 27 
 2005  Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama declare a State of Emergency in preparation for Hurricane Katrina.
August 27 
 2006  Comair Flight 5191 crashes on take-off at Lexington, Kentucky, with 49 people out of the 50 on board being confirmed dead within hours of the crash.
August 27 
 1809  Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States and 26th Governor of Maine (died 1891)
August 20 
 14  Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the deceased emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.
August 20 
 636  Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
August 20 
 1467  The Second Battle of Olmedo takes place as part of the succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
August 20 
 1519  Philosopher and General Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the Ming Dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
August 20 
 1619  First Africans arrive in the US, transported by the Dutch, and are sold as servants in Jamestown, Virginia.
August 20 
 1672  Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother, Cornelis de Witt, are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
August 20 
 1707  The first Siege of Pensacola ends with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida, from the Spanish.
August 20 
 1710  War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational (of different nationalities) army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maitre, Marquis de Bray in the Battle of Zaragoza.
August 20 
 1775  Spanish colonists establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, in the town that would become Tucson, Arizona.
August 20 
 1794  Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
August 20 
 1804  Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
August 20 
 1833  Nat Turner leads his revolt against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton County, Virginia
August 20 
 1857  First book published by an Australian female writer: Gertrude the Emigrant by Caroline Atkinson.
August 20 
 1858  Charles Darwin first publishes his Theory of Evolution through natural selection alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
August 20 
 1860  In Melbourne, Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills begin their South-North expedition of Australia.
August 20 
 1940  Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice-ax.
August 20 
 1940  Winston Churchill makes a famous speech containing the following quote: Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
August 20 
 1950  Korean War: The United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.
August 20 
 1955  In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
August 20 
 1968  200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
August 20 
 1982  Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
August 20 
 1986  In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
August 20 
 1991  Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
August 20 
 1993  After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington D.C. the next month.
August 20 
 1998  The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
August 20 
 1998  1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
August 20 
 2002  A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
August 20 
 2008  A Spanair plane, due to travel from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 146 people, with 8 dying later.
August 20 
 2009  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to have been convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, who is suffering from prostate cancer, is released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, returning to his native Libya.
August 20 
 2014  A series of landslides in Hiroshima Prefecture kills 72 people, after a month's worth of rain fell in one day.
August 20 
 2018  Then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg protests outside the Swedish parliament over politicians' lack of action on climate change, starting what would become a worldwide movement of school strikes.
August 20 
 2019  Giuseppe Conte announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy over his coalition partner and League party leader Matteo Salvini's calls for an early election.
August 20 
 1648  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
August 20 
 Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary), commemorating the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000
August 19 
 1153  Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
August 19 
 1666  Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships.
August 19 
 1745  Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan, beginning the second Jacobite rebellion.
August 19 
 1772  Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup, dividing power between the King and the Riksdag (Swedish parliament).
August 19 
 1812  War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia.
August 19 
 1839  The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift 'free to the world'.
August 19 
 1854  The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
August 19 
 1889  Meteorological experiments are carried out on the Eiffel Tower to bring new knowledge of weather patterns to scientists.
August 19 
 During this, a lightning bolt strikes the top of the building, something which hardly anyone on the lower deck notices.
August 19 
 1895  American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
August 19 
 1927  Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
August 19 
 1942  World War II: Operation Jubilee - British and Canadian landings at Dieppe, northern France, fail.
August 19 
 1953  The CIA helps to overthrow Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh, allowing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to power.
August 19 
 It had been carried out by allies of Ayatollah Khomeini in order to damage the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
August 19 
 1980  A Lockheed L-1011 airplane of the Saudia airline, burns after making an emergency landing at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
August 19 
 1981  Gulf of Sidra Incident: US fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
August 19 
 1987  In Hungerford, England, a gunman kills 16 people with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
August 19 
 1989  Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland in 42 years.
August 19 
 1989  Several East Germans cross the border between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events leading up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall later the same year.
August 19 
 1991  August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest, while on holiday in Foros, Crimea.
August 19 
 1999  In Belgrade, tens of thousands of people protest against President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, demanding his resignation.
August 19 
 2003  A car bomb attack on Baghdad's United Nations Headquarters kills 22 people, including Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
August 19 
 2005  The first ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005, begins.
August 18 
 1487 - The Siege of Malaga comes to an end, with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
August 18 
 1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, Virginia, becomes the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas.
August 18 
 Exactly three years later, White returns from a supply trip to England to find that everyone from the colony had disappeared.
August 18 
 1612 - The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most well-known witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
August 18 
 1807 - Napoleon Bonaparte creates the Kingdom of Westphalia and installs his brother Jerome Bonaparte as its king.
August 18 
 1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
August 18 
 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain's "Hardest Day", on which both sides suffer their heaviest losses.
August 18 
 1945 - Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia, a day after declaring Indonesia independent from the Netherlands.
August 18 
 1948 - The Australian cricket team completes a 4-0 Ashes series win over England during its undefeated "Invincibles" tour.
August 18 
 1963 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
August 18 
 1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - US marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the major American ground battle of the war.
August 18 
 1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
August 18 
 1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the axe murder incident results in the deaths of two US soldiers.
August 18 
 His death a few weeks later, at the hands of the police, makes him a symbol of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
August 18 
 1988 – George H. W. Bush makes his campaign promise Read my lips, no new taxes during a speech in Louisiana.
August 18 
 2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting around 100 million people.
August 18 
 2018 - The 2018 Asian Games, co-hosted by the cities of Jakarta and Palembang (in Indonesia), begin.
August 18 
 1587 – Virginia Dare, first child of English parents to be born in what is now the United States (d. before 1591)
August 18 
 1952 - Mohammad Sarwar, British-Pakistani politician, former Glasgow MP and two-time Governor of the Punjab.
August 17 
 1386  Karl Topia, ruler of the Princedom of Albania, creates an alliance with the Republic of Venice.
August 17 
 1498  Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first cardinal to-date to resign from his post.