Tuesday, August 26, 2014

History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com
Swede Savage 1946 Bob Cowsill (The Cowsills) 1949 Macaulay Culkin 1980 


55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar. 


1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth. 


1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany. 


1937 - All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan. 


1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II. 


1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line. 










1990 - The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border (they all lived).


1992 - A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims. 

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