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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2025. There are 126 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) ...
Today in History: August 26, De Gaulle leads victory march through Paris
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 26, 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German ...
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Today is Monday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2025. There are 128 days left in the year.
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On August 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service as an agency of the U.S. ...
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2025. There are 130 days left in the year.
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On Aug 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike began, organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 to 10,000 laborers walked off the job, leading ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2025. There are 131 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup.
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2025. There are 132 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution in ...
Today in History: Aug. 20, Soviets invade Czechoslovakia
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2025. There are 133 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to ...
Today in History: August 19, last U.S. combat troops leave Iraq
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2025. There are 134 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 19, 2010, the last American combat brigade exited Iraq, seven years and five ...
Today is Monday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2025. There are 135 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing American women's right to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 16, the 228th day of 2025. There are 137 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 42; forty-one years later, in 2018, singer Aretha Franklin, known as the "Queen of ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2025. There are 138 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York; more than 460,000 people attended the three-day festival, which would become a watershed event in American ...
Today is Thursday, Aug. 14, the 226th day of 2025. There are 139 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, ensuring income for elderly Americans and creating a federal unemployment insurance ...
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2025. There are 140 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 13, 1961, on what would become known as Barbed Wire Sunday, East Germany sealed the border between Berlin's eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide ...
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 238th day of 2025. There are 127 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 26, 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had just been liberated by the Allies from Nazi ...
Today is Monday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2025. There are 142 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 11, 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a former military prison, in San Francisco Bay; the island would be home to more than 1,500 prisoners over the ...
Today is Saturday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2025. There are 144 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress dropped a nuclear device over Nagasaki; the bombing and subsequent radiation poisoning ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2025. There are 145 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 8, 2023, a series of wind-driven wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the town of Lahaina and killing more than 100 people.
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2025. There are 146 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 7, 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, over 1,300 feet above the ...
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2025. There are 147 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths.
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2025. There are 148 days left in the year.
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On Aug. 5, 1962, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was arrested on charges of leaving the country without a valid passport and inciting workers to strike; it was the ...
