Historical Political Events for August 2 Year Event 1886 The Oleomargarine Act established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) laboratory...
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Historical Political Events for August 3 Year Event 1492 Columbus sets sail from Spain on the first voyage of discovery. Arrives in the West Indies Oct. 12,...
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Historical Political Events for August 4 Year Event 1790 U.S. Coast Guard established. 1914 World War I begins with Britain declaring war on Germany. 1977...
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... Historical Political Events for August 5 Year Event 1861 President Lincoln signed into law the first federal government income tax that levied only 3% of...
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... Historical Political Events for August 6 Year Event 1945 US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan , ushering in the new era of atomic warfare -- which...
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... Historical Political Events for August 7 Year Event 1789 War Department Established 1894 The U.S. recognizes the Republic of Hawaii , established on July...
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The host site for "Political Almanac" suddenly went bellyup over the weekend. I have found a new host and will have in full operation "real soon now", they...
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Historical Political Events for August 8 Year Event 1898 US annexes Hawaii . See Annexation Resolution here . 1969 Executive order 11478 was issued by Nixon on...
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Historical Political Events for August 9 Year Event 1814 General Jackson's campaign against the Creek Indians ends after they ceded all their land to the U.S....
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Historical Political Events for August 10 Year Event 1917 Congress passes the Lever Act which permits the U.S. Food Administration to fix the price of wheat...
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Historical Political Events for August 11 Year Event 1964 Congress approved "War on Poverty" bill. As of 1993, we have spent $5.4 trillion on antipoverty...
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Historical Political Events for August 12 Year Event 1868 U.S. military authorities force Navajo chiefs to sign a treaty August 12 agreeing to live on...
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Historical Political Events for August 14 Year Event 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance 1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua to quash a...
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Historical Political Events for August 13 Year Event 1961 East German border guards begin construction of the Berlin Wall 1981 In a ceremony at his California...
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Historical Political Events for August 15 Year Event 1876 Congress quickly passes law to remove Native Americans from Black Hills country after gold is found...
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Aug 15, 2000 11:51 am
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Historical Political Events for August 16 Year Event 1984 CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT , Public Law 98-378, becomes law. Authorizes grants to...
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Historical Political Events for August 17 Year Event 1862 Sioux Indians, facing starvation, begin an uprising in Minnesota , with hundreds of lives lost. After...
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Historical Political Events for August 18 Year Event 1891 A Presidential decree opens 900,000 acres in the Oklahoma Territory to white settlement, following...
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Historical Political Events for August 19 Year Event 1692 A clergyman and 5 women were convicted of witchcraft and executed in Salem , Massachusetts. 1934 A...
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Historical Political Events for August 20 Year Event 1916 Congress creates the U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior. Originally formed...
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Historical Political Events for August 21 Year Event 1958 "SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT ACT" is signed. Allows small businesses to get low cost loans at taxpayer...
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Historical Political Events for August 22 Year Event 1862 "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," writes President Lincoln in a letter to...
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Historical Political Events for August 23 Year Event 1572 The Massacre of St. Bartholomew August 23 and 24 kills an estimated 50,000 Huguenots at Paris and in...
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Historical Political Events for August 24 Year Event 1912 US passes Anti-gag law , giving federal employees right to petition government. 1939 J. Edgar Hoover,...
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Historical Political Events for August 25 Year Event 1950 President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general...
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Historical Political Events for August 26 Year Event 1789 The French Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man . 1920 The 19th amendment to the...
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Historical Political Events for August 27 Year Event 1894 Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act , which contained a provision for a graduated income tax...
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Historical Political Events for August 28 Year Event 1867 The U.S. annexed the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 1954 School Milk Program Act (Public Law...
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Historical Political Events for August 29 Year Event 1632 John Locke , writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, was born 1758 The New Jersey...
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Historical Political Events for August 30 Year Event 1862 At the Second Battle of Bull Run , the South's General Lee soundly trounces the North's General Pope...
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