August 31: On This Progressive Day
National German Socialist Workers Party operatives stage an attack on Gleiwitz radio station, providing an excuse for a military attack against 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)
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union (1991)
At Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 17th round of golf as POTUS (2009)
A new design of the Oval Office is presented to the D.C press corps; also President B. Hussein Obama makes a speech declaring an end to the War in Iraq (2010)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 142nd round of golf as POTUS; he also asks Congress to authorize military action against Syria (2013)
b: Eldridge Cleaver (1935), d: Dodi Al-Fayed (1997), Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov (2012), Ali Jawad al-Sheikh (2011), David Frost (2013)
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August 30: On This Progressive Day
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)
The People's Mujahedin of Iran assassinate Iran's President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1981)
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)
President B. Hussein Obama lectures President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, President Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania and Andris Bērziņš of Latvia on "flexibility" with Russia (2013)
b: Huey Long (1893), Molly Ivins (1944), d: Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1946), Guy Burgess (1963)
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Andrew Klavan takes on the curious language of progressivism
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August 29: On This Progressive Day
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), Jack Lew (1955), Michael Jackson (1958); d: Brigham Young (1877), Béla Kun (1938), Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1979)
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August 28: On This Progressive Day
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)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 16th round of golf as POTUS (2009)
b: Viktor Khristenko (1957); d: Emmett Till (1955), Jean Marchand (1988)
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What difference, at this point, does Obama's endorsement make?
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August 26: On This Progressive Day
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)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 48th round of golf as POTUS (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama returns to Washington, D.C., ahead of Hurricane Irene, cutting short his annual summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard (2011)
b: Anna Ulyanova (1864), Ivan Mihailov (1896); d: William James (1910), Charles Lindbergh (1974)
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Dear Leader has fundamentally transformed our national interest
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August 25: On This Progressive Day
Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces (1814)
House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss (1948)
President Harry S Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a labor union strike (1950)
Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union (1991)
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy (1997)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 14th round of golf as POTUS (2009)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 47th round of golf as POTUS (2010)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 141st round of golf as POTUS (2013)
b: Pavel Axelrod (1850), Erich Honecker (1912); d: Benjamin Aaron (2007), Teddy Kennedy (2009)
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August 24: On This Progressive Day
Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague (1349)
France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty (1931)
The Communist Control Act goes into effect outlawing the American Communist Party (1954)
Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them (1967)
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1991)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 13th round of golf as POTUS (2009)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 46th round of golf as POTUS (2010)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 80th round of golf as POTUS (2011)
b: Leonardo Conti (1900), Karl Hanke (1903), Yasser Arafat (1929), Kim Sung-Il (1948), David Gregory (1970); d: Simone Weil (1943)
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On This Progressive Day: August 23
Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China (1914)
Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and National German Socialist Workers Party foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; in a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two progressive nations (1939)
A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome" (1973)
Successful Communist coup in Laos (1975)
Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (1989)
The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia (2007)
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound (2011)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 79th round of golf as POTUS (2011)
b: Antonia Novello (1944); d: Ferdinando Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927)
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On This Progressive Day: August 22
Jacob Barsimson, the first known Jewish immigrant to America, arrives in New Amsterdam (1654)
German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad (1941)
NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers (1966)
President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, ensuring his re-election; the reform would later be reversed under hard-Prog President B. Hussein Obama (1996)
While vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 45th round of golf as POTUS (2010)
b: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Ray Marshall (1928); d: Döme Sztójay (1946), Huey P. Newton (1989), Jomo Kenyatta (1978)
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August 31: On This Progressive Day
