When the news of the end of the war was announced, people in Baghdad were dancing in the streets and celebrating wildly. After nearly eight years of conflict, the Iran-Ir...
Qamar-ud-din Khan, the first string from Hyderabad, was born on August 20, 1671. He is the founder of the dynasty that ruled Hyderabad from 1724 until 1948, ie for 224 ye...
On August 20, 1833, Benjamin Harrison was born, a politician who became the 23rd President of the United States. Interestingly, his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, w...
On August 20, 1960, African Senegal declared its independence. It was an interesting situation, because for the previous two months, Senegal was within a short-lived stat...
Thermonuclear bombs could reach many times more power than previous physical nuclear bombs. The new bomb whose existence was announced by the USSR could, unlike the Ameri...
The Germans beat Belgian cities with powerful howitzers called Debela Berta. They conquered Belgium in about twenty days. In the conquered area, they established the so-c...
On August 19, 1991, an attempted coup began in the USSR, organized by a group of hardliners with the aim of maintaining the old Soviet order. The group was led by eight h...
Pascal was buried in the late Parisian church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, located near the Sorbonne. On August 19, 1662, the French scientist and Christian thinker Blaise P...