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14th Aug. 1917 : In Palestine Turks plundered and murdered some of the Jewish inhabitants. An Associated Press Official observed, “The attitude of the young Turks for the unfortunate non-Turkish races within their empire has been an open campaign of robbery, exploitation, and massacre.” The town of Gaza had to be evacuated and the regional violence was the worst since World War I began.
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14th Aug. 1942 : A huge number of Hitler’s troops attacked Stalingrad and German submarines were engaged in a three day battle with British convoys. The British reported that their aircraft carrier, “Eagle” was destroyed
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14th Aug. 1945 : President Truman announces Japan has accepted terms for unconditional surrender following the second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki on the 9th August just a few days before , The agreement to the terms of the Potsdam Terms had been agreed on the 10th August but not made public till this date
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14th Aug. 1966 : The U.S. Lunar Orbiter, a spacecraft circulating in space, was designed to take photos of the moon’s landscape in preparation for American astronauts landing on the lunar landscape. Its mission went well
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14th Aug. 2003 : Following the increased number of deaths caused by the extreme temperatures the during the ongoing heat wave, French health ministry have instituted an emergency hospital plan recalling doctors from holiday and providing additional staff, hospital beds and temporary mortuaries.
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14th Aug. 2006 : A Japanese oil tanker spilled around 4,500 tons of oil into the Indian Ocean on this day after hitting another ship on a rescue mission. The oil spill was quickly contained, but it still became the largest spill involving a Japanese oil tanker.
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14th Aug. 2007 : A coordinated attack by four suicide bombers on villages of the Kurdish religious sect, the Yazidi, injured over 1,000 people and left 796 dead, marking the deadliest attack during the war in Iraq since 2003.
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14th Aug. 2009 : A bus and train collided in Romania, killing over ten people and injuring others. The crash occurred after the bus driver ignored the stop signals at the train crossing.
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15th Aug. 1945 : Following the US President Harry S Truman telling the world at a press conference at the White House yesterday that Japan has surrendered unconditionally.
15 August has been declared Victory in Japan ( VJ ) day.
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15th August 1947 : India gains independence from Britain ending 200 years of British
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15th Aug. 1950 : The future queen of England Princess Elizabeth, has given birth to a daughter at Clarence House in London it is almost 2 years since her first son, Prince Charles was born.
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15th Aug. 1972 : In Israel hijackers get a life sentence. Two Arab girls who helped hijack a Sabena Airlines plane of Belgian origin got a sentence of 25 years in prison. The accused apparently had weapons and explosives with them and planned to use them. Their pleas for clemency were ignored by military police.
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15th Aug. 1989 : American hostages were being held in Iran and Lt. Col. William Higgins was murdered. President George H. Bush said that he didn’t retaliate militarily because the rest of the eight hostages might be killed if he did
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15th Aug. 1994 : The terrorist Illich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, is captured in Khartoum, Sudan, by French intelligence agents, he had had associations with some of the most ruthless terrorist groups including
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Organization for Armed Arab Struggle
The Japanese Red Army.
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15th Aug. 1998 : Apple computers who have been having a hard time over with last 3 years with poor sales and financial problems are lauching a new concept in home computers the iMac. The iMac is an all in one home computer and internet ready consisting of only of a monitor/central unit, keyboard and mouse and is going on sale in the US priced at $1,299. Apple currently holds less than 5% of the home computer market. ( 2008 market share is closer to 8% ).
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15th Aug. 2007 : An earthquake measuring 8.0 strikes the central coastal area of Peru affecting the cities of Pisco, Ica and Chincha Alta in the Ica Region leaving some small villages completely devastated, the death toll is believed to be over 500 with many more now homeless.
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15th August, 2011 : Tsewang Norbu, a Tibetan monk, set himself on fire in an apparent protest against Beijing in China's Sichuan province. Norbu allegedly shouting "Long live the Dalai Lama" before burning himself to death.
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Aug. 25, 1944: Paris is liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and General Charles de Gaulle who had been the leader of the free French forces enters Paris the next day
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August 25, 1989: The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has reached the Planet Neptune which is over two billion miles from Earth and sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets