Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, full name Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, reigned as the queen of…
3 September 1651
The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Battle of Worcester, which took place on September…
2 September 1998
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide….
1 September 1939
J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop….
31 August 1920
Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów. The Polish-Soviet War, which took place from 1919 to 1921, resulted in a Polish…
30 August 1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. The Moscow-Washington hotline, also known as the “Red Telephone”…
23 August 1898
The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. The 1898 Southern Cross Expedition was an…
27 August 2003
Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant. Mars and Earth have varying distances between them…
26 August 2014
The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal was a highly disturbing and significant case…