Mamta Bansal
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History of 24 August
1990 - Iraqi troops surrounded
foreign missions in Kuwait.1991 - Russian President Mikhail
Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party.1992 - China and South...
History of 23 August
1990 - President Saddam Hussein
appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he
referred to as "guests." He told the group...
History of 22 August
1990 - Angry smokers blocked a
street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.1991 - It was announced by
Yugoslavia that a truce ordered on...
History of 21 August
1991 - The hard-line coup against
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ended. The uprising that led to the collapse
was led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin.1992...
History of 20 August
1991 - A rally of more than 100,000
people occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup
that removed Gorbachev from power.1997 - NATO...
History of 19 August
1991 - Soviet hard-liners announced
that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev
returned to power two days later.1998 - The first piece of...
History of 18 August
1990 - The first shots were fired by
the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis when a U.S. frigate
fired rounds across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker.1991 -...
History of 17 August
1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being
romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of
Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion.1996 - A...
History of 16 August
2005 – West
Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes
in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.2008 –...
History of 15 August
1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for
creating the "myth" concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen
still being held prisoner in Indochina.1994 - The U.S. Social
Security Administration became an independent government...
History of 14 August
1992 - The U.S. announced
that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being
taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.1995 - Shannon...
History of 13 August
1990 - Iraq transferred $3-4 billion in bullion, currency, and other goods seized from Kuwait to Baghdad.
1992 - Woody Allen began legal action to...
