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AncientPages.com - On August 21, 1680, Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from the Spanish.Pueblo Indians were peaceful people who managed to endure much after New Mexico's colonization in
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AncentPages.com - On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally stabbed by a pick of an ice axe in his skull. The next day Leon Trotsky
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AncientPages.com - On August 19, 1759, the naval Battle of Lagos between the Royal Navy of Britain and France, which began one day earlier, continued. This historical event happened
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AncientPages.com - On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died during the siege of Ningxia. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to being slain in
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AncientPages.com - On August 17, 1970, Venera 7, a Soviet spacecraft, was launched from Earth as part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed
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AncientPages.com - On August 16, 1896, while camping near Rabbit Creek near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spotted nuggets of gold in a
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AncientPages.com - On 15 August 1057, Macbeth was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan in 1057 by forces loyal to the future Malcolm III. He was buried on
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AncientPages.com - On August 14, 1720, the Spanish Villasur expedition was wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska. In June 1720, a Spanish military force
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AncientPages.com - On Aug. 13, 1792, the National Tribunal in Paris formally arrested King Louis XVI of France and the royal family, including Queen Mary Antoinette, the king’s son
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AncientPages.com - On August 12, 1990, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered and nicknamed “Sue”. The discoverer was the paleontologist Susan “Sue” Hendrickson. In the
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AncientPages.com - On August 11, 3114 BC, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar began. It was in use by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, especially the Maya. According to Maya theology,
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AncientPages.com - On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England, was laid. In 1675, King Charles II laid the foundation stone of
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – We all know that tomatoes are red. That's no news, but how did they become red, and why are they, not blue,
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AncientPages.com - On 9 August 48 BC, the Battle of Pharsalus was fought between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great"), who fled to Egypt. In this
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AncientPages.com - On August 8, 1220, the Battle of Lihula was fought between the invading Swedish army and Estonians to control a castle in Lihula, Estonia. The castle
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AncientPages.com - On August 7, 1947, Thor Heyerdahl's raft, the Kon –Tiki, reached Polynesia. Heyerdahl and his five adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotus, French Polynesia, in a
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AncientPages.com - On Aug 6, 1840, Adolph Bandelier, a Swiss-American anthropologist famous for his studies of the American Indian cultures, was born. Bandelier was the first historian and
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AncientPages.cm - On August 5, 1888, Anna Haining Bates - one of the tallest women in history - died. Anna Haining Bates was born on August 6, 1846, on
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AncientPages.com - Is the story of the ancient Chinese 'Great Flood' really true? Scientists are convinced the event is real and they have now found evidence of one of
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AncentPages.com - On August 4, 1181, a supernova was observed in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed this supernova on August 4 and then on August
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AncientPages.com - Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and statewide bans from competition. Ironically, according to ancient Greek mythology,
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AncientPages.com - On August 3, 1704, British forces captured Gibraltar from the Spanish and managed to keep it today and for a long time of more than 300
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AncientPages.com - On August 2, 1798, Nelson won one of the most significant victories of the British admiral Horatio Nelson. It was fought between the British and French fleets
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AncientPages.com - On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising began and was part of a national plan, the so-called Operation Tempest (referred to in English as Operation Storm, with several other
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AncientPages.com - On July 31, 1451, Jacques Cœur was arrested on the order of Charles VII of France. This historical scandal occurred in medieval France on this day when
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AncientPages.com - On July 30, 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands of Honduras with his ships. He landed at mainland Honduras (Trujillo) and named the area "Honduras" (meaning
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AncientPages.com - On July 29, 615, K'inich Janaab' Pakal ascended the throne of the Mayan city-state of Palenque at the age of 12 and ruled until his death. During
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AncientPages.com - On July 28, 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine in Paris, France. Robespierre had dominated the Committee of
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AncientPages.com - On July 27, 1361, the Battle of Visby was fought near the town of Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland. This military encounter was between
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