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Nazi (National Socialist Workers Party) Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe (1939)
William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst (1978)
New design of the Oval Office is presented to the press, as President B. Hussein Obama announces an end to the War in Iraq in a speech (2010)
b: Eldridge Cleaver (1935), d: Dodi Al-Fayed (1997), Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov (2012)
"That the United States may soon be fighting alongside Ansar al-Sharia jihadists in Syria is an indictment of the Obama administration's clueless and recklessly naïve foreign policy and a slap in the face for the victims of Benghazi and their families."(full story "Benghazi's Ansar al-Sharia Trains Syrian Rebel Jihadists" at investors.com)
Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin; this, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror (1918)
Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation (1963)
Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR (1990)
While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her (2003)
b: Huey Long (1893), Molly Ivins (1944), d: Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1946), Guy Burgess (1963)
"A reporter with Israel’s most widely read newspaper has been told by defense establishment officials that a US-led attack on Syria will begin on Saturday and end when Barack Obama meets Vladimir Putin on Wednesday" at beforeitsnews.com
Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis (1944)
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (1949)
Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party (1991)
President B. Hussein Obama gives the eulogy, mostly about himself, at the funeral service of Senator Teddy Kennedy (2009)
b: John Locke (1632), Edward Carpenter (1894), John McCain (1936), James Florio (1937); d: Brigham Young (1877), Béla Kun (1938), Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1979)
Germany declares war on Romania, Italy declares war on Germany (1916)
France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression (1931)
The Philadelphia Race Riot begins (1964)
Riots in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic National Convention (1968)
Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province (1990)
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1991)
b: Viktor Khristenko (1957); d: Jean Marchand (1988)
Petroleum discovered in Titusville, PA - world's first successful oil well (1859)
Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war signed by sixty nations (1928)
An IRA bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten (1979)
President B. Hussein Obama gives the eulogy, mostly about himself, at the funeral service of Senator Teddy Kennedy (2009)
b: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Joan Kroc (1928); d: W.E.B. DuBois (1963), Otto Strasser (1974)
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Judicial Watch obtained Defense Department training materials on Friday that described conservative and civil liberties organizations as “hate groups.”(full story "Busted: Dept. Of Defense Training Materials Calls Conservatives and Founding Fathers “Extremists”" at clashdaily.com)
The training materials used by the Air Force were created to help students “recognize extremists ideologies.” The materials identified conservative values, such as individual liberties and states’ rights, as recruiting rhetoric used by “extremists.”
The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS (1957)
The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago (1968)
President B. Hussein Obama returns to Washington, D.C., head of Hurricane Irene, cutting short his annual presidential summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard (2011)
b: Anna Ulyanova (1864), Ivan Mihailov (1896); d: William James (1910), Charles Lindbergh (1974)