Friday, August 31, 2012

1 September 1939

Adolf Hitler begins the program of systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Monday, August 27, 2012

28 August 1988

Three aircraft collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd at the Ramstein airshow. 75 are

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

27 August 1776

The Battle of Long Island: British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Monday, August 20, 2012

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Friday, August 17, 2012

18 August 1868

Helium us discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

17 August 1962

An East German border guards shoots 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he crosses the Berlin Wall into West

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Friday, August 10, 2012

11 August 1984

"We begin bombing in five minutes"; United States President Ronald Reagan jokes when preparing to make his weekly address on National Public

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Monday, August 6, 2012

7 August 1933

The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail.

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

5 August 1620

The Mayflower departs from Southampton for its first attempt to reach North

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Friday, August 3, 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

2 August 1939

Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear

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