Tag: History
History of 28 August
1990 - Iraq declared Kuwait to be
its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.1995 - The biggest bank in the U.S.
was created when Chase...
History of 27 August
1990 - The U.S. State
Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.1991 - The Soviet republic of
Moldavia declared its independence.1996 - California Governor
Pete Wilson signed an order that...
History of 26 August
1990 - The 55 Americans at
the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the
Turkish border.1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev promised that...
History of 25 August
1990 - Military action was
authorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been
placed on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait.1991...
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 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 –...