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On the 1st of August, 1920, Mahatma Gandhi founded the Non-Cooperation Movement. It was meant to force the British government to accept the Indian sovereignty through peaceful civil disobedience.

On the 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait; this marked the beginning of the Gulf War, and Iraq remained in the country for seven months.

On August 3rd 1923, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office to become the 30th president of the United States of America after President Warren Harding's unexpected death.

On August 5th, 1861, the United States Army abolished flogging as a form of discipline.

On the 6th of August, 1945, the United States dropped the first-ever atomic bomb, Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On the 7th of August, 1990, Côte d'Ivoire gained independence from France.

On August 9th, 1945, the United States dropped a second nuclear bomb named Fat Man on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

On August 11th, 1960, the Republic of Chad gained independece from France.

On the 1AUGth of August, 1521, Hernán Cortés captured the city of Tenochtitlán for the crown of Spain; this act led to the fall of the Aztec Empire, a civilization that had stood for 200 years.

On the 14th of August, 1947, the British rule in India suffered a blow when a part of the country split. The new muslim-majority state declared sovereignty and became the country of Pakistan.

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened and began moving vessels. The project cost the lives of 27,609 people.

On August 17th, 1945, the Republic of Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch Empire after a brutal war.

On the 18th of August, 1920, Women in the United States of America finally gained the right to vote after the Nineteenth Amendement was ratified. The bill was eventually signed into law on the 26th of August that same year.

On the 20th of August, 1619, Angolan people kidnapped by the Portugese were brought to the British colony of Virginia; this marked the first arrival of black slaves in North America.

On August 21st, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian employee, Vincenzo Perugia, who hoped to return the painting to its original home. The painting was not recovered for the next 2 years.

On August 22nd, 1865, William Sheppard was issued the first patent for the creation of liquid soap.

On the 25th of August, 2012, Neil Amstrong, the first person to walk on the surface of the moon, passed away at the age of 82.

On the 28th of August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his infamous "I Have A Dream Speech." 200,000 marched on Washington D.C. in solidarity for the Civil Rights Movement.

On August 31st, 1997, Princess Diana of Wales died in an accidental car crash in France. Her funeral was one of the most-watched event of the century.

On September 2nd, 1666, the Great Fire of London began. It started from the house of the King's Baker and spread throughout the city. The fire raged for four days and left 85% of the entire population homeless.

On the 3rd of September, 1971, Qatar gained independence from the British Empire after 55 years of rule.

On September 5th, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe. It is currently the farthest man made object in space as it entered interstellar space in August 2012.

On September 6th, 1522, Ferdinand Magellan's crew returned to Spain and became the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth.

On the 11th of September, 2001, the United States of America suffered a massive terror attack as two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The terrorists also hijacked two other planes, one of which crashed into the Pentagon, and another which crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The attack ended the lives of 2996 people.

On the 13th of September, 1939, the Soviet invasion of Poland began.

On September 18th, 1906, the Hong Kong Typhoon, a tropical cyclone, hit Hong Kong resulting in the deaths of 10,000 people.

On September 20th, 2000, a group of individuals from the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), fired a rocket at the United Kingdom's MI6 building with a Russian-made 22 anti-tank missile. No one was wounded or killed.

On the 21st of September, 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was published for the first time.

On the 23rd of September, 2004, Hurricane Jeanne kills more than 3000 people in Haiti.

On September 24th, 2015, at least 100 people died and 934 were wounded in a stampede that occured during the Hajj in Mecca.

On September 26th, 2024, Hurricane Helene reached land and devastated the county of Perry, Florida. The hurricane resulted in the deaths of over 250 people, becoming the deadliest since Katrina.

On the 28th of September, 1919, the Omaha Race Riot began. It gained notoriety for the gruesome lynching of a black man named William Brown by a white mob.

On the 29th of September, 2006, two airplanes, an Embraer 600 and a Boeing 737 collided mid air killing 154 people and triggering the Brazilian aviation crisis.

On September 30th, 1966, Botswana gained independence from the British Empire.

On October 1st, 1960, Nigeria gained independence from British colonial rule.

On the 2nd of October, 1706, a British Army officer was hanged by the Continental Army for being a spy.

On the 3rd of October, 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

On October 4th, 1957, the Russians launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, into space; this kickstarted the Space Age.

On October 5th, 2011, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, died in Pal Alto, California at age 56.

On the 7th of October, 2023, the militant group Hamas and several others launched an attack on Israel. They landed on paragliders and shot several rockets. The attack left about 1,200 people dead.