The Battle of Long Tan takes place between the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and a Viet Cong force in Ph??c Tuy Province during the…
17 August 1950
American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army in what is called the ‘Hill 303 massacre’.
15 August 1939
The Wizard of Oz is first shown at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. The Wizard of Oz is the most popular American Comedy-Drama…
14 August 1962
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…
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.