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31st Jul 1760
The Duke of Brunswick, Ferdinand, drives the French army back to the Rhine River.
31st Jul 1891
Territories in Southern Africa up to the Congo is declared by Great Britain to be within their sphere of influence.
31st Jul 1917
The British attack the German Lines in the third Battle of Ypres.
31st Jul 1944
Kovno, the capital of Lithuania is taken by the Soviet army.
31st Jul 1971
Astronauts on Apollo 15 take a drive on the moon in the land rover.
31st Jul 1991
A long range nuclear weapons reduction pact is signed by the US and USSR.
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Alan
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1st Aug 1664
French and German troop defeat the Turkish army at St Gotthard, Hungary.
1st Aug 1759
The French are defeated by British and Hanoverian armies at the Battle of Minden, Germany.
1st Aug 1798
Horatio Nelson routs the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay, Egypt.
1st Aug 1834
Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.
1st Aug 1914
War on Russia is declared by Germany.
1st Aug 1937
Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany becomes operational.
1st Aug 1941
The Gumman TBF Avenger torpedo plane makes its first flight.
1st Aug 1942
U166 is sunk as it approaches the Mississippi River, the first U-boat sunk by the US Coast Guard.
1st Aug 1943
The oil fields in Ploesti, Romania are bombed for a second time by over 177 B24 Liberator bombers.
1st Aug 1944
Polish underground begins an uprising against the occupying German army as the Red Army approaches Warsaw.
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Alan
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2nd Aug 1553
Invading French army is destroyed by an imperial army at the Battle of Marciano in Italy.
2nd Aug 1847
The first steam boat is launched in San Francisco Bay by William Leidesdorff.
2nd Aug 1914
Germany invades Luxembourg
2nd Aug 1934
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor following the death of President Paul Von Hindenburg.
2nd Aug 1990
Kuwait is invaded by neighbouring Iraqi forces.
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Alan
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3rd Aug 1492
Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.
3rd Aug 1692
The English are defeated by French forces at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.
3rd Aug 1911
Italian planes recce Turkish line near Tripoli, the first time airplanes are used in a military capacity.
3rd Aug 1914
Germany declares war on France.
3rd Aug 1958
USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole, first submarine to achieve such a mission.
3rd Aug 1990
In the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait the US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region.
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Alan
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4th Aug 1717
A friendship treaty between France and Russia is signed.
4th Aug 1914
Great Britain declares war on Germany due to Germany’s invasion of Belgium.
4th Aug 1944
A V1 buzz bomb is destroyed by an RAF pilot tipping the crafts wing in flight sending it off course.
4th Aug 1971
US launch the first satellite from the manned spacecraft Apollo 15.
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Alan
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5th Aug 1762
A treaty is signed by Russia, Prussia and Austria agreeing on the partition of Poland.
5th Aug 1914
The British Expeditionary Force mobilises for WW1
5th Aug 1916
The Ottomans are defeated by the British navy at the battle off Port Said, Egypt.
5th Aug 1941
410,000 Russian prisoners are taken by the German army in Uman and Smolensk.
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Alan
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6th Aug 1904
A Russian army retreating to Manchuria is surrounded by the Japanese army.
6th Aug 1942
The German army takes the Soviet city of Voronezh.
6th Aug 1945
The Enola Gay commanded by Paul Tibbets drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
6th Aug 1962
After 300 years of British rule Jamaica becomes independent.
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Alan
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7th Aug 1916
Britain and Russia form an alliance with Persia.
7th Aug 1936
The US declares non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
7th Aug 1942
The first American amphibious landing of the war happens when the 1st Marine Division lands on the islands of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon islands.
7th Aug 1944
A major counter attack against US forces is launched by German forces near Mortain, France.
7th Aug 1973
400 civilians are killed when a US plane accidentally bombs a Cambodian village.
7th Aug 1990
Operation Desert Shield begins to discourage Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia.
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Alan
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8th Aug 1937
Beijing is occupied by the Japanese army.
8th Aug 1940
Great Britain 8s attacked for the first time by the German Luftwaffe beginning the Battle of Britain.
8th Aug 1944
The capture of the Marianas Islands is completed by US forces.
8th Aug 1945
Soviet Union declares war against Japan
8th Aug 1979
22 Political opponents are executed by Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein
8th Aug 2000
136 years after its sinking the submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface.
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Alan
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9th Aug 1549
England declares war on France
9th Aug 1805
Britain, Russia, Sweden and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia is joined by Austria in the third coalition against France.
9th Aug 1941
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Chuchill reach an agreement between the two countries on war aims, known as the Atlantic Charter.
9th Aug 1945
A second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan by the B29 bomber Bock’s Car.
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Alan
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10th Aug 1557
Emmanuel Philbert’s Spanish army defeats the French at St Quentin, France.
10th Aug 1582
Russia ends its 25 year war with Poland
10th Aug 1628
On her maiden voyage, the Swedish warship Vasa capsizes and sinks in Stockholm harbour.
10th Aug 1913
The Second Balkan War comes to an end with the Treaty of Bucharest.
10th Aug 1941
Aid to Turkey is promised by Britain and the Soviet Union if Turkey is attacked by the Axis powers.
10th Aug 1997
Hong Kong is returned to China after 156 years of British rule.
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Alan
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The Vasa would be a great build. Beautifully decorated ship and it would be very accurate as she's still here,
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RobT wrote:The Vasa would be a great build. Beautifully decorated ship and it would be very accurate as she's still here, I agree Rob.... You may find this of interest though.... http://forum.model-space...spx?g=posts&t=17889
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Very nice. Fingers crossed that she manages to sail her way here.
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11th Aug 1916
Stanislau, Poland is taken from the Germans by the Russian army.
11th Aug 1941
Berlin is raided by Soviet bombers but little damage is caused.
11th Aug 1942
HMS Eagle, one of the worlds first aircraft carriers is sunk by the German submarine U73.
11th Aug 1944
Florence, Italy is abandoned by German troops as Allied troops close in on the city.
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Alan
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12th Aug
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Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra commits suicide.
12th Aug 1762
Cuba is captured from Spain by the British after a two month siege
12th Aug 1812
Wellington occupies Madrid, Spain, forcing out Jeseph Bonaparte.
12th Aug 1908
The first Model T Ford rolls off the assembly line.
12th Aug 1941
Full French collaboration with Nazi Germany is announced by French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.
12 Aug 1961
The erection of the Berlin Wall begins.
12th Aug 2000
In the Barents Sea the Russian submarine K141 Kursk explodes and sinks with all hands.
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Alan
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13th Aug 1704
At the Battle of Belnheim the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Austria defeat the French army.
13th Aug 1707
War is declared on Russia by the Ottoman Empire.
13th Aug 1910
Florence Nightingale dies.
13th Aug 1961
Night time construction on the Berlin Wall begins
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Alan
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14th Aug 1793
In France, Republican troops lay siege to the city of Lyons.
14th Aug 1917
War is declared on the Central Powers by the Chinese Parliament.
14th Aug 1945
Japan announces its unconditional surrender in WWII.
14th Aug 1947
Pakistan achieves its independence.
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Alan
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15th Aug 1261
Constantinople falls to Michael VIII of Nicea.
15th Aug 1598
The Earl of Tyrone leads an Irish force to victory over the British at the Battle of Yellow Ford.
15th Aug 1760
The Austrians are defeated at the Battle of Liegnitz by Frederick II.
15th Aug 1769
Napoleon Bonaparte is born.
15th Aug 1914
The Panama Canal opens.
15th Aug 1942
Japanese submarine J25 carries a floatplane in its hold and assembles it upon arriving off the West Coast of the US. Used the plane to bomb US forests.
15th Aug 1944
British, French and US forces land on the southern coast of France between Toulon and Cannes in Operation Dragoon.
15th Aug 1950
The North Korean army badly maul two US divisions at the Battle of the Bowling alley in South Korea.
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Alan
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16th Aug 1944
A general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Nomandy is launched by the US First Army.
16th Aug 1945
US troops take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
16th Aug 1950
Airfields in the Pongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea are attacked by US carrier based planes, the first air strike of the Korea War.
16th Aug 1954
Almost nine years after the end of WWII Great Britain sees the end to food rationing.
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Alan
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