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Back to Search11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Ebert signs the new constitution into law
It took the best of part of seven months for the delegates of the new German National Assembly to agree on the terms of the new Weimar constitution, …
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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time
The Louvre museum in Paris opened to the public in the former palace of the French royal ...
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9th August 1944: Smokey Bear, the forest fire prevention mascot, first appears on a poster in the United States
Produced in cooperation with the Ad Council, the first Smokey Bear poster, released on 9 August 1944, showed the bear pouring a bucket of water onto …
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8th August 1969: The Beatles pose for an album cover on the Abbey Road zebra crossing
Traffic was stopped on the B507 road in London so The Beatles could pose for their iconic Abbey Road album ...
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7th August 1909: Alice Ramsey makes the first female transcontinental car journey
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San ...
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6th August 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law during the height of the Civil Rights movement
The Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and authorised federal officials to oversee voter registration in jurisdictions with a history of discr…
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5th August 1305: William Wallace captured by English troops at Robroyston
Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace was captured by English forces at Robroyston near ...
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4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms
On 4 August 221 Lady Zhen, the wife of Cao Pi of Wei of the Three Kingdoms, ...
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3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “The lamps are going out all over Europe…”
As Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey had attempted to prevent the crisis but these efforts proved unsuccessful and, during the evening of 3 August, …
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2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae
Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of ...
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