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The Smithsonian Institution was founded on August 10, 1846, with money bequeathed by a British scientist who had never crossed the Atlantic. It became the largest museum complex on Earth.
Aug 10, 2026
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Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9, 1173. It started to tilt before the third floor was finished, and it has been falling over, very slowly, ever since.
Aug 9, 2026
On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced he would resign the presidency the next day. Watergate had finally caught up with him, and no American president had ever done such a thing.
Aug 8, 2026
On August 7, 1998, near-simultaneous truck bombs destroyed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing hundreds. The attacks announced a new kind of global terrorism to the world.
Aug 7, 2026
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Tens of thousands died in an instant, and the world entered the nuclear age it has never left.
Aug 6, 2026
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home in the early hours of August 5, 1962. She was thirty-six. Her death was ruled a probable suicide, and the questions have never stopped.
Aug 5, 2026
On August 4, 1944, after 761 days in hiding, Anne Frank and seven others were discovered in their Amsterdam annex and arrested. Her diary survived. She did not.
Aug 4, 2026
Columbus set sail from Palos on August 3, 1492, in search of a western route to Asia. He found instead two continents whose peoples he had not imagined, and the collision reshaped the planet.
Aug 3, 2026
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, overrunning it in hours. The occupation triggered the largest military coalition since the Second World War and reshaped the modern Middle East.
Aug 2, 2026
MTV went on the air on August 1, 1981, with a countdown, a rocket, and a song about how video killed the radio star. Within a few years it had rebuilt the entire music industry around the screen.
Aug 1, 2026
