August 14, 201411 yr Author 14 August 1941 Having met in secret in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, British PM Winston Churchill (aboard the King George V class battleship HMS Prince of Wales) and US President Roosevelt (aboard the Northampton class heavy cruiser USS Augusta) issue the Atlantic Charter, a policy statement clarifying American support for Great Britain in WWII.
August 15, 201411 yr Author 15 August 1945 At 12:00 noon Japan standard time, a recorded speech by the Emperor is broadcast to the nation of Japan, announcing the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
August 18, 201411 yr Author 18 August 1966 105 Australian soldiers and three New Zealand forward artillery observers face off against 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army guerrillas at a rubber plantation near Long Tan, in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam. It is Australia's bloodiest battle since the Korean war.
August 19, 201411 yr Author 19 August 1981 In the Gulf of Sidra, 'Fast Eagle 102' and 'Fast Eagle 107', a pair of F-14A Tomcats from VF-41 'Black Aces' aboard USS Nimitz return fire against a pair of Libyan Air Force Su-22M 'Fitter J' fighters and shoot them down with AIM-9L Sidewinders.
August 20, 201411 yr Author 20 August 1991 Hard line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), opposed to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, make a failed attempt at a coup d'etat during three days (19-21 August) of unrest in Moscow.
August 21, 201411 yr Author 21 August 1957 The USSR conducts a successful long range (6,000 km) test flight of the first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the R-7 Semyorka (NATO SS-6 Sapwood).
August 22, 201411 yr Author 22 August 1910 Korea is annexed by Japan under the terms of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, making it a protectorate of the Empire of Japan until after the end of WWII and damaging diplomatic relations between the two countries through to the present day.
August 25, 201411 yr Author 25 August 1944 The occupying German garrison in Paris finally surrenders to the Allies, marking the liberation of that city.
August 26, 201411 yr Author 26 August 1346 At the Battle of Crecy, during the Hundred Years War between England and France, the English longbow demonstrates its supremacy, defending against a much larger French force using crossbows and armoured knights.
August 27, 201411 yr Author 27 August 1939 The world's first jet powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes to the air in its first flight, mere days before the Nazi invasion of Poland.
August 28, 201411 yr Author 28 August 1914 The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of WWI, takes place off the coast of Germany in the southeastern North Sea. A large force from the British Grand Fleet ambushed a smaller force from the German High Seas Fleet, sinking three German light cruisers and a destroyer.
August 29, 201411 yr Author 29 August 1949 Izdeliye 501 (Device 501) or RDS-1, also called 'pervaya molniya' ('first lightning'), and known in the United States by its codename Joe-1, is detonated at Semipalantinsk in the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb. The blast yields 22 kilotons, and ushers the USSR into the atomic age nearly 5 years earlier than expected in the West.
September 2, 201411 yr Author 2 September 1945 Virtually six years to the day after it began in Europe, World War II ends in the Pacific with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 3, 201411 yr Author 3 September 2004 The Beslan school crisis ends after three days when Russian special forces assault the building and attack the Islamic separatist militants. 334 of the approximately 1,100 hostages are killed in the resulting mayhem.
September 4, 201411 yr Author 4 September 1923 First flight of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four US Navy airships, takes place at Lakehurst, NJ.
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