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…
4 August 1914
In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.