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  1. 4th September 1957: Nine Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School in Arkansas

    Vom: 4.9.2024
  2. 3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

    Vom: 3.9.2024
  3. 2nd September 1792: September Massacres begin during the French Revolution, resulting thousands of deaths

    Vom: 2.9.2024
  4. 1st September 1969: Libyan Revolution brings Muammar Gaddafi to power following the overthrow of King Idris I

    Vom: 1.9.2024
  5. 31st August 1888: Discovery of the first victim of Jack the Ripper in London

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  6. 30th August 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the US Supreme Court

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  7. 29th August 1911: Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California

    Vom: 29.8.2024
  8. 28th August 1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm ends, prompting the term ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

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  9. 27th August 1896: Shortest recorded war in history fought between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar

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  10. 26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls

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  11. 25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

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  12. 24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

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  13. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

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  14. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

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  15. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

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  16. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

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  17. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

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

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  19. 17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

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  20. 16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

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