The IBM Personal Computer is released. The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, was introduced on August 12, 1981, and became one…
11 August 1929
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio….
10 August 1641
The Treaty of London between England and Scotland, ending the Bishops’ Wars, is signed. The **Bishops’ Wars** were a pair of conflicts fought between **Scotland…
9 August 1973
Mars 7 is launched from the USSR. The **Mars 7 spacecraft** was one of a series of Soviet missions launched in the early 1970s to…
8 August 1876
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. Thomas Edison’s mimeograph was one of the earliest practical document duplication machines, making it far easier and…
7 August 1782
George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic…
6 August 1945
The atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay on Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb known as **”Little Boy”** was…
5 August 1962
Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment was one of the defining events in South Africa’s struggle against…
4 August 1995
Operation Storm, the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence begins. The Croatian War of Independence was fought between 1991 and 1995 as…
3 August 1972
The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was a landmark arms control agreement signed on 26 May 1972…