Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal”, is captured
13 August 1967
Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana’s Glacier National Park in separate incidents
12 August 1964
South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
11 August 2006
The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country’s worst oil spill.
10 August 2014
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
9 August 1965
Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
8 August 2000
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer…
6 August 1944
The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising,…
5 August 1914
In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed on 5 August, 1914. Cleveland, Ohio, became the site of a major transportation milestone: the…