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- August 30: MacArthur Lands Unarmed at Atsugi to Begin the Occupation of Japan
On August 30, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur walked unarmed off a transport plane at a Japanese airfield that had been an enemy base two weeks earlier, opening an occupation that would remake Japan.
6 min - August 28: King Delivers "I Have a Dream" at the March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. set aside his prepared remarks at the Lincoln Memorial and reached for a phrase he'd been testing in churches for three years — turning a stalled bill into a movement.
6 min - August 27: Howe Routes Washington's Army at the Battle of Long Island
On Long Island in 1776, a young Continental Army faces European regulars in open battle for the first time — and learns, at terrible cost, how to survive to fight another day.
6 min - August 26: Colby Certifies the Nineteenth Amendment
On the morning of August 26, 1920, a Secretary of State signs a two-sentence amendment alone in his home, quietly ending a 72-year fight and giving 26 million American women the vote.
6 min - August 25: Paris is Liberated
On this day in 1944, a German general defied Hitler's order to burn Paris to the ground, choosing surrender over destruction as the city's four-year occupation ended in a single afternoon.
7 min - August 24: British Troops Burn the White House and Capitol
On this day in 1814, British troops marched into an undefended Washington and set fire to the Capitol and the President's House — and a violent storm arrived just in time to save what was left.
6 min - August 23: George III Proclaims the American Colonies in Rebellion
Four months after Lexington and Concord, King George III answers colonial pleas for peace with a proclamation that calls them traitors — before he's even read their olive branch.
6 min - August 22: British Siege Collapses on a Rumor
A British siege in the Mohawk Valley collapses on a rumor. How a captured Loyalist and a bluff from Benedict Arnold helped set up the American victory at Saratoga.
7 min - August 21: Eisenhower Proclaims Hawaii the 50th State
Forty years after a Hawaiian prince first asked Congress for statehood, the islands finally got their answer — from their own voters. The story of how Hawaii became the 50th state.
6 min - August 20: Washington expels the Soviet consul who wouldn't produce a schoolteacher
A Soviet schoolteacher's fall from a New York window ignites a diplomatic crisis, ending with President Truman personally expelling a Soviet consul at the height of the Berlin standoff.a
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A daily history podcast from Patriot Compass. Each episode explores the events that shaped America on this day in history, told through expert narration and grounded in primary sources.