Gunmen hijack a mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and make off with $1.5 million. The Plymouth Mail robbery, or what the press called “The Great…
Author: Staff
12 August 1976
Over 3000 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre during the Lebanese Civil War.
11 August 1984
United States President Ronald Reagan makes a joke that “We begin bombing in five minutes” while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National…
9 August 1965
Singapore becomes the only country ever to gain independence unwillingly as it is expelled from Malaysia.