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383 Episoder

1. 25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

   Publisert: 25.8.2024
2. 24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

   Publisert: 24.8.2024
3. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

   Publisert: 23.8.2024
4. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

   Publisert: 22.8.2024
5. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

   Publisert: 21.8.2024
6. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

   Publisert: 20.8.2024
7. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

   Publisert: 19.8.2024
8. 18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

   Publisert: 18.8.2024
9. 17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

   Publisert: 17.8.2024
10. 16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

    Publisert: 16.8.2024
11. 15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

    Publisert: 15.8.2024
12. 14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

    Publisert: 14.8.2024
13. 13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

    Publisert: 13.8.2024
14. 12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

    Publisert: 12.8.2024
15. 11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

    Publisert: 11.8.2024
16. 10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

    Publisert: 10.8.2024
17. 9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

    Publisert: 9.8.2024
18. 8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

    Publisert: 8.8.2024
19. 7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

    Publisert: 7.8.2024
20. 6th August 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved following the abdication of Francis II

    Publisert: 6.8.2024