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		August 1: First day of Ramadan (Islam, 2011); Civic Holiday in most areas of Canada (2011); Emancipation Day in various Caribbean countries (2011); Lughnasadh (Northern Hemisphere); Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere) 1291 – Three Swiss cantons signed the Federal Charter to create the Old Swiss Confederacy. 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya. 1944 – World War II: The Polish Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw against the Nazi occupation of Poland, a rebellion that lasted 63 days until it was quelled by the Germans. 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (damage pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145. More anniversaries: July 31 – August 1 – August 2 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 2: Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia 1610 – English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean. 1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province. 1923 – Calvin Coolidge (pictured) became the 30th President of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack. 1932 – At the California Institute of Technology, Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter when he discovered the positron. 1989 – The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettiturai, Sri Lanka. More anniversaries: August 1 – August 2 – August 3 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 3: Independence Day in Niger (1960); Flag Day in Venezuela 1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, believed to likely be the messianic "World Teacher", shocked the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him. 1936 – African American athlete Jesse Owens (pictured) won the first of his four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination. 1940 – World War II: Italy began their invasion of British Somaliland. 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. More anniversaries: August 2 – August 3 – August 4 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 4: Constitution Day in the Cook Islands (1965) 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas led a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England. 1903 – Italian cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected to become Pope Pius X. 1964 – A second U.S. Navy destroyer was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading Congress to authorize the use of military force in Southeast Asia. 1992 – Yōhei Kōno (pictured), Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, issued a formal apology for forcing women into sexual slavery during World War II. 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovered a suitcase containing US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo". More anniversaries: August 3 – August 4 – August 5 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 5: Independence Day in Burkina Faso (1960); International Beer Day 1772 – Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria began the First Partition of Poland to help restore the regional balance of power in Eastern Europe among those three countries. 1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field (pictured) and his colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable, crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island in Ireland to Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 1925 – The Welsh political party Plaid Cymru was founded with the goals of promoting the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation. 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan fired the 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization en masse. 1995 – Operation Storm: Croatian forces recovered the town of Knin from the Republic of Serbian Krajina. More anniversaries: August 4 – August 5 – August 6 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar); Independence Day in Bolivia (1825) and Jamaica (1962) 1538 – Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded a European urban settlement in what is today Bogotá, Colombia. 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor Francis II during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition. 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people. 1964 – American researcher Donald Currey had a bristlecone pine tree known as Prometheus cut down, only to find that it was the oldest known non-clonal organism ever discovered, at least 4,862 years old at the time. 1996 – NASA announced that the meteorite known as ALH 84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars. More anniversaries: August 5 – August 6 – August 7 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 7: Assyrian Martyrs Day (1933); Independence Day in Côte d'Ivoire (1960) 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor. 1679 – Le Griffon, a brigantine built by René-Robert de LaSalle (pictured), became the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes. 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invoked the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. 1927 – The official opening ceremony of the Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, at the east end of Lake Erie was held two months after it opened to the public. 1933 – An estimated 3,000 Assyrians were slaughtered by Iraqi troops during the Simele massacre in the Dahuk and Mosul districts. More anniversaries: August 6 – August 7 – August 8 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 8: Tisha B'Av begins at sunset (Judaism, 2011); Father's Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan) 1786 – Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the birth of modern mountaineering. 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I. 1929 – German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (pictured) embarked on a flight to circumnavigate the world. 1942 – Following a speech by Mohandas K. Gandhi, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India Resolution, calling for the immediate independence of India from the United Kingdom. 1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. More anniversaries: August 7 – August 8 – August 9 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous People; Tisha B'Av ends at nightfall (Judaism, 2011) 1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel (interior pictured) in the Vatican City was celebrated. 1942 – World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the United States Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands. 1965 – Malaysia expelled the state of Singapore from its federation due to heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties. 1974 – Watergate scandal: Richard Nixon became the only President of the United States to resign from office. 1988 – Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history. More anniversaries: August 8 – August 9 – August 10 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 10 955 – Forces under Otto I were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe. 1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty that would last for more than 700 years. 1793 – The Louvre (pictured), the most visited art museum in the world, officially opened with an exhibition of 537 paintings. 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central modern-day Vietnam. 1988 – Japanese-American internment: The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing US$20,000 in reparations to each surviving internee. More anniversaries: August 9 – August 10 – August 11 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 11: Independence Day in Chad (1960) 2492 BC – According to legend, Armenian culture hero Hayk slew the giant king Bel with a shot from a longbow near Lake Van (in modern Turkey). 1786 – Captain Francis Light founded the British colony of Penang, beginning more than a century of British involvement in Malaya. 1828 – William Corder was hanged at Bury St Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn. 1929 – The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States, was held in Chicago. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr (pictured) and composer George Antheil received a patent for their "Secret Communications System", an early technique of frequency-hopping spread spectrum that later became the basis for many forms of today's wireless communication systems. More anniversaries: August 10 – August 11 – August 12 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 12: Mother's Day in Thailand 1323 – Sweden and the Novgorod Republic signed the Treaty of Nöteborg to temporarily end the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars. 1676 – Puritans and their Native American allies killed Wampanoag sachem Metacomet (known as "King Philip"), essentially ending King Philip's War. 1952 – Thirteen Jewish poets in Moscow were executed for espionage based on false confessions. 1969 – Riots erupted in the Bogside area of Derry and spread across much of Northern Ireland. 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer (pictured), the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform, was introduced. More anniversaries: August 11 – August 12 – August 13 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 13: Raksha Bandhan (Hinduism, 2011) 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough (pictured) led Allied forces to a crucial victory in the Battle of Blenheim. 1898 – Spanish–American War: After a mock battle for Manila, the Spanish commander surrendered to the U.S. in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands. 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the Manhattan Project. 1954 – The complete version of "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan, was broadcast for the first time on Radio Pakistan. 1962 – The Holy See agreed to refrain from denouncing Communism in exchange for having Russian Orthodox Church representatives attend the forthcoming Second Vatican Council. More anniversaries: August 12 – August 13 – August 14 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 14: Ghost Festival (Chinese calendar, 2011); Tu B'Av begins at sunset (Judaism, 2011) 1880 – Construction of the Cologne Cathedral (pictured)—Germany's most visited landmark—was completed, 632 years after it had begun. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa and colleagues at Gdańsk Shipyard began strike actions, which subsequently led to the founding of the Solidarity movement in Poland. 1987 – Australian Federal Police raided the compound owned by the Santiniketan Park Association and freed a number of children who had been held there illegally. 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou was shot to death by Turkish forces while trying to remove a Turkish flag from a flagpole in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. More anniversaries: August 13 – August 14 – August 15 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 15: Victory over Japan Day; Feast of the Assumption in Christianity; Independence Day in India (1947) and the Congo (1960); Liberation Day in South Korea (1945) 1517 – In the Pearl River Delta, Portuguese diplomat Fernão Pires de Andrade met with Ming Dynasty officials, marking the resumption of direct European contact with China. 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola (pictured) and six others at Montmartre near Paris took the vows that led to the establishment of the Society of Jesus. 1843 – Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, today the most popular amusement park in Scandinavia, opened. 1945 – The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces. 1948 – The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its first president. More anniversaries: August 14 – August 15 – August 16 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 16: Children's Day in Paraguay 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrendered Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. 1863 – After Spain had annexed the Dominican Republic, rebels raised the Dominican flag in Santiago de los Caballeros to begin the War of Restoration. 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the only all-steel church in Asia, was officially consecrated. 1929 – A long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into a week-long period of violent riots throughout Palestine. 1960 – Joseph Kittinger (pictured) parachuted from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting records for high-altitude jump, free-fall height, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft. More anniversaries: August 15 – August 16 – August 17 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 17: Independence Day in Indonesia (1945) 986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: The Bulgarians defeated the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan near present-day Ihtiman, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping. 1915 – American Jew Leo Frank was lynched by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia, for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl. 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed the independence of Indonesia (pictured), igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. 1947 – A commission led by Cyril Radcliffe established the Radcliffe Line, the border between India and Pakistan after the Partition of India. 2008 – With the victory in the 4×100 m medley relay at the Beijing Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps set the records for the most gold medals won by an individual in a single Olympics (8) as well as total career gold medals (14) in modern Olympic history. More anniversaries: August 16 – August 17 – August 18 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 18: Long Tan Day in Australia (1966) 1590 – John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, returned from England only to find the settlement deserted. 1783 – An unusually bright meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain. 1868 – Astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium (schematic diagram of nucleus pictured) while analyzing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India. 1891 – A hurricane struck Martinique, killing about 700 people, injuring at least 1,000 others, and obliterating houses, trees, and crops across the entire island. 2008 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigned under impeachment pressure. More anniversaries: August 17 – August 18 – August 19 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 19: Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar); Independence Day in Afghanistan (1919) 1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands to begin the Second Jacobite Rising. 1953 – The intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States orchestrated a coup d'état of Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh (pictured) and restored the absolute monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1980 – A fire on Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 163 killed all 301 people on board after it made an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport in Saudi Arabia. 1991 – A Hasidic man accidentally struck two Guyanese immigrant children with his car in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City, initiating three days of rioting. 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage. More anniversaries: August 18 – August 19 – August 20 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 20: St. Stephen's Day in Hungary 917 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: Bulgarians led by Tsar Simeon I drove the Byzantines out of Thrace with a decisive victory in the Battle of Achelous. 1882 – The 1812 Overture by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pictured) was first performed at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. 1989 – After a collision with a dredger on the River Thames in London, the pleasure boat Marchioness sank in just thirty seconds, killing 51 people. 1998 – The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 U.S. embassy bombings. More anniversaries: August 19 – August 20 – August 21 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 21: Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines 1680 – Several tribes of Pueblo Indians captured the town of Santa Fe in Nuevo México. 1911 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by a museum employee and was not recovered until two years later. 1944 – Second World War: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the strategically important town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy. 2007 – Hurricane Dean made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 5 storm, causing 45 deaths and US$1.5 billion in damage. More anniversaries: August 20 – August 21 – August 22 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 22 1138 – English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton in Yorkshire. 1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution. 1851 – The yacht America won the first America's Cup race near the Isle of Wight, England. 1864 – The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant (pictured) officially began when twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross. 1910 – Japan annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. 1944 – World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete. More anniversaries: August 21 – August 22 – August 23 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 23 1514 – Ottoman forces defeated the Safavids at the Battle of Chaldiran, gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq. 1873 – The Albert Bridge (pictured), spanning the River Thames in London, opened. 1948 – The World Council of Churches, a worldwide Christian ecumenical fellowship, was established. 1970 – The United Farm Workers, led by César Chávez, began the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history. 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10 in Vienna, escaped from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years in captivity. More anniversaries: August 22 – August 23 – August 24 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 24: Independence Day in Ukraine (1991) 1690 – East India Company official Job Charnock established his headquarters in a location he called Calcutta. 1812 – Peninsular War: Seeing that his army was in danger of being cut off, French commander Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult retreated from Cádiz, ending a 30-month siege. 1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail. 1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia program (propaganda poster pictured) of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of the war. 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power. More anniversaries: August 23 – August 24 – August 25 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 25: Independence Day in Uruguay (1825) 1258 – George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by the nobles under future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers. 1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals, a revolutionary group led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja, declared Uruguayan independence from the Empire of Brazil. 1916 – The National Park Service was established to manage all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties around the United States. 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski (pictured) successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War. 1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crash landed at the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport runway in Auburn, Maine, killing all 8 people on board including Samantha Smith and her father Arthur Smith. More anniversaries: August 24 – August 25 – August 26 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 26 1071 – Byzantine–Seljuq Wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert. 1768 – HMS Endeavour departed Plymouth, England, marking the start of the first voyage of explorer James Cook. 1810 – Juan José Castelli ordered the execution of Santiago de Liniers, during the Argentine War of Independence. 1966 – The South African Defence Force launched an attack against SWAPO guerrilla fighters at Omugulugwombashe, starting the Namibian War of Independence. 1970 – Betty Friedan (pictured) and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 20,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender equality. 1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec declared French to be the only official language of Quebec. More anniversaries: August 25 – August 26 – August 27 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991) 1689 – The Tsardom of Russia and Qing Dynasty China signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first treaty between the two nations. 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy (pictured), preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de la Passe. 1928 – Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. 1985 – The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida. 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region. More anniversaries: August 26 – August 27 – August 28 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 28: Feast of Dormition/Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar) 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. 1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco (flag pictured), an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. 1914 – In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea. 1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against the Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began. 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one ever by a single Senator. More anniversaries: August 27 – August 28 – August 29 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 29: Feast day for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Gregorian calendar); National Heroes' Day in the Philippines (2011) 1533 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa (pictured) in Cajamarca. 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. 1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern. 1984 – Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and single largest bioterrorist attack in United States history. 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 aboard. More anniversaries: August 28 – August 29 – August 30 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history		August 30: Constitution Day in Kazakhstan (1995); Victory Day in Turkey 1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament House pictured). 1862 – American Civil War: James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson led their Confederate troops to a decisive victory against John Pope's Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia. 1918 – Fanni Kaplan shot and wounded Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, helping to spark the Red Terror in the future Soviet Union, a repression against Socialist-Revolutionary Party members and other political opponents. 1992 – German driver Michael Schumacher won his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix. 1995 – Bosnian War: NATO began its bombing campaign against the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. More anniversaries: August 29 – August 30 – August 31 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history
		August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957), Trinidad and Tobago (1962) and Kyrgyzstan (1991) 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days prior, Byzantine Empress Theodora died without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty. 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols' body was found on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row, London, allegedly the first victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (depiction pictured). 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. 1982 – Anti-government demonstrations were held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement. 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver Henri Paul were killed in a high speed car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. More anniversaries: August 30 – August 31 – September 1 It is now February 4, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page view – talk – edit – history

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