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1. 26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls

   Pubblicato: 26/08/2024
2. 25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

   Pubblicato: 25/08/2024
3. 24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack

   Pubblicato: 24/08/2024
4. 23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

   Pubblicato: 23/08/2024
5. 22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces

   Pubblicato: 22/08/2024
6. 21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

   Pubblicato: 21/08/2024
7. 20th August 1968: Warsaw Pact troops invade to end the Prague Spring

   Pubblicato: 20/08/2024
8. 19th August 1991: August Coup places Gorbachev under house arrest

   Pubblicato: 19/08/2024
9. 18th August 1933: Nazis reveal the Volksempfänger, a low-cost radio receiver, to the public

   Pubblicato: 18/08/2024
10. 17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

    Pubblicato: 17/08/2024
11. 16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars

    Pubblicato: 16/08/2024
12. 15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad

    Pubblicato: 15/08/2024
13. 14th August 1947: Partition of India begins with creation of the independent Dominion of Pakistan

    Pubblicato: 14/08/2024
14. 13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

    Pubblicato: 13/08/2024
15. 12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

    Pubblicato: 12/08/2024
16. 11th August 106: Roman Emperor Trajan declares Dacia (modern Romania) a Roman province

    Pubblicato: 11/08/2024
17. 10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

    Pubblicato: 10/08/2024
18. 9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege

    Pubblicato: 09/08/2024
19. 8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

    Pubblicato: 08/08/2024
20. 7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago

    Pubblicato: 07/08/2024