On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches ...

On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of ...

On the 16th August 1819, the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field in Manchester when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by ...

The last execution at the Tower of London took place on the 15th August 1941. Josef Jakobs was a German spy who was arrested after he signalled for help after breaking his ankle when he parachuted into Britain.

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On the 14th August 1980, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in the Polish city of Gdańsk led by electrician Lech Wałęsa began a strike that led to the formation of the Solidarity labour ...

Beginning at midnight on the 13th August 1961, East German police and army began to close the border with West ...

On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic ...

The Weimar Republic was officially established on 11th August 1919, when Friedrich Ebert signed the new constitution into ...

On the 10th August 1792, French revolutionary troops stormed the Tuileries Palace in ...

On the 9th August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment and the almost certain removal from office due to the Watergate ...