August 30, 1982: PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, forced from Beirut after a decade
August 29, 1950, British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there. August 28,1990 - Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima. August 27, a bloody day for the UK in 1979 - An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten, The Queen's cousin, plus at least 18 British soldiers are killed in two booby-trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down, close to the border with the Irish Republic. August 26, 1973 , a U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women's Equality Day. August 25, 1941 - Allied forces invade Iran. Within four days the Soviet Union and England controlled Iran. August 23, 1979, the Kurdish revolt grows in Iran - Kurds in Iran oust government troops from a large area near the Iraqi border August 22, 1978, Kenya's founding father and president, Jomo Kenyatta, dies aged 89 August 21, 2013, Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison August 21, 1997, Afghanistan suspended its embassy operations in the United States August 20, 1997, NATO troops seize six police stations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler is approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuhrer August 18, 1990, the first shots were fired by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis when a U.S. frigate fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker - and on it goes August 17, 1987, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former right-hand man, is found dead in Spandau Prison August 16,1952, twelve bodies are recovered and 24 people are missing feared dead in the flood which has swept through Lynmouth in north Devon. On the same day in 2004, Flash floods devastate a north Cornwall coastal village after the area's average August rainfall fell in just two hours August 15, 1998, at least 27 people are feared dead after a massive car bomb in the town of Omagh in Northern Ireland August 14, 1964, Vietnam war - Hanoi prepares for more air strikes, holding air-raid drills for fear of more U.S. attacks in the wake of the Pierce Arrow retaliatory raids that had been flown in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident |
August 13, 1961, troops in East Germany seal off the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East
August 12, 2000, the family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne is joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service August 11, 1998, British Petroleum became No. 3 among oil companies with the $49 billion purchase of Amoco. It was the largest foreign takeover of a U.S. company August 11, 1998, British Petroleum became No. 3 among oil companies with the $49 billion purchase of Amoco. It was the largest foreign takeover of a U.S. company August 10, 1964, the United Nations brokers another ceasefire in Cyprus, defusing a growing military crisis and heading off the threat of invasion by Turkey August 9, 1945, American forces drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in the past three days August 8, 1990, American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia August 7, 1914, Russia invades East Prussia 
August 6, 1945, US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima; the first atomic bomb is dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima directly killing 80,000 people
August 5, 1991, an investigation is formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election August 4, 1964, FBI agents uncover the bodies of three missing civil rights workers at a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals August 2, 1990, more than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invade the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning August 1, 1944, the uprising to free Warsaw begins as the Polish Underground Army begins battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European city to fall to the Germans |
