August – A Look back in History

1/8/1914: Germany declared war on Russia.

1/8/1971: MTV launched.

2/8/1776: US Declaration of Independence signed.

2/8/1922: Alexander G. Bell, telephone inventor, died.

2/8/1990: Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.

3/8/1492 Christopher Columbus set sail and later discovered America.

4/8/1994: Anne Frank arrested by Nazi police in Amsterdam.

5/8/1962: Marilyn Monroe, actress, found dead.

6/8/1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima-80,0()0 killed.

9/8/1974: Richard Nixon resigned as President of USA.

12/8/1848: George Stephenson, developer of the steam train, died.

13/8/1961: Berlin Wall began being erected.

14/8/1880: Cologne cathedral, Europe’s largest Gothic church completed after 632 years of work.

15/8/1534: Jesuit religious order founded.

16/8/1977: Elvis Presley, rock singer, died.

20/8/1920: The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, founded.

21/8/1981: Scientists first warning of global warming.

22/8/1922: Michael Collins shot in Cork.

24/8/1965: Bob Dylan made his first concert appearance.

24/8/79: Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii.

26/8/1920: US women won the right to vote.

26/8/1978: Pope John Paul 1, 263rd Pope, elected.

29/8/1975: Eamon de Valera died.

30/8/1884: Space Shuttle Discovery launched for the first time.

31/8/1980: Polish Solidarity Movement founded.