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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...

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...