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| | | | | Germans begin to evacuate Sicily by The Ovi Team August 11th 1943, German forces begin a six-day evacuation of the Italian island of Sicily, having been beaten back by the Allies, who invaded the island in July. The Germans had maintained a presence in Sicily since... | | | Son of Sam arrested by The Ovi Team On August 10, 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam," the serial killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing six young people and wounding seven others with a .44-calib | | | President Nixon to resign from office by The Ovi Team August 8th 1974; Richard Nixon has announced he is stepping down as president of the United States - the first man ever to do so. He has announced his departure in the face of an imminent impeachment trial... | |
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| | Gandhi's "Quit India" speech by The Ovi Team The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. You can read it in full here... | | | Arthur Miller cleared of contempt by The Ovi Team August 7th 1958; Washington's Court of Appeals has quashed playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress after a two-year legal battle. In May the year before, a judge convicted Mr Miller for refusing to tell... | | | Enola Gay by The Ovi Team August 6th 1945; the American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the centre of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. And nobody knows | | | Anna Frank arrested by The Ovi Team August 4th 1944; Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death. | | | Nautilus crosses the North Pole by The Ovi Team August 3rd 1958; The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as "Operation Sunshine." The trip was made in four days by the Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine. | | | The Uprising to free Warsaw by The Ovi Team August 1st 1944; The Polish Home Army has begun a battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European capital to fall to the Germans nearly five years ago. At 1700 local time, the code signal "Tempest" was... | | | The Spanish armada by The Ovi Team 29th July 1588; the Spanish armada was defeated by the English fleet led by Sir Francis Drake. In 1588 the most powerful, best-organised, best-equipped army in Europe - the Spanish 'Army of Flanders' - | | | | next | |
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