Tag: History
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...
History of 12 August
1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.1993 - U.S. President...
History of 11 August
1990 - Egyptian and Moroccan troops
joined U.S. forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible
Iraqi attack.1991 - The space shuttle Atlantis ended
its nine-day journey by landing...
History of 4 August
1990 - The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the...
History of 3 August
1990 - Thousands of Iraqi troops
pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world
concerns that the invasion of Kuwait...
History of 2 August
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich
country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by
exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.1995 -...
History of 1 August
1993 - Reggie Jackson was admitted
into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.1995 - Westinghouse Electric
Corporation announced a deal to buy CBS for...
History of 31 July
1991 - U.S. President George H.W.
Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty.1995 - The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire
Capital Cities/ABC in...
History of 30 July
1990 - In Spring Hill, TN, the first
Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.1991 - In China, construction began
on the Oriental Pearl Radio &...
History of 29 July
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted
retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard
"Ivan the Terrible." His death sentence was thrown...