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History of 9 August

1996 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time.1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and...

History of 7 August

1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq. 1999 - Tony Gwynn (San Diego...

History of 6 August

1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.1993 - The...

History of 5 August

1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.1991 - An investigation was formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if...

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 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...

History of 28 July

1991 - Dennis Martinez (Montreal Expos) pitched the 13th perfect game in major league baseball history. 1994 - Kenny Rogers (Texas Rangers) pitched the 14th...

History of 25 july

1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948. 1997 - K.R. Narayanan became India's...

1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to...