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Back to Search30th August 1813: Red Stick Creek warriors attack Fort Mims in the Mississippi Territory
Approximately 700 Red Stick warriors led by William Weatherford attacked the fort. Around 250 people were killed, while at least 100 others were take…
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29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking
The First Opium War formally ended when Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the ‘unequal ...
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28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in ...
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27th August 1916: Romania enters the First World War by declaring war on Austria-Hungary
By 1916, the Allied governments had promised Romania control of Transylvania and other territories if the Central Powers were defeated. Encouraged by…
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26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France
The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
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25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English ...
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24th August 1814: The Burning of Washington sees British forces during the War of 1812 capture and set fire to many principal public buildings
Although it had limited strategic value in military terms, the Burning of Washington demonstrated the vulnerability of the young American republic du…
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23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu
King Michael I of Romania led a coup d'état that removed the Nazi-aligned government of Ion ...
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22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian ...
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21st August 1945: The Demon Core fatally irradiates physicist Harry Daghlian during an experiment at Los Alamos Laboratory
Daghlian was working alone when he accidentally dropped a block of tungsten onto the plutonium core, which increased the reflection of neutrons and p…
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