Friday, August 31, 2012
1 September 1939
Adolf Hitler begins the program of systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled
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28 August 1988
Three aircraft collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd at the Ramstein airshow. 75 are
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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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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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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2 August 1939
Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to develop a nuclear