On August 2, 1776, in the assembly room of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, the president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock of Massachusetts, stepped forward a
On the morning of August 2, 216 BC, the largest army the Roman Republic had ever assembled marched toward battle on the plain near the village of Cannae in Apulia, in the heel of s
At 12:01 in the morning on August 1, 1981, a new cable television channel flickered to life in homes across parts of New Jersey. The screen filled with footage of a rocket launch c
At 5:00 in the afternoon on August 1, 1944, shots rang out across the streets of Warsaw. At precisely that hour, the hour that Poles would come to call “W Hour,” the Po
On August 1, 1914, the German Foreign Minister delivered a formal declaration of war to the Russian Imperial court. The message was terse and absolute: “His Majesty the Emper
On August 28, 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formally ending the institution of slavery across most of the British E
On August 1, 1774, a forty-one-year-old English minister and amateur scientist named Joseph Priestley focused sunlight through a twelve-inch glass burning lens onto a small lump of
At 4:30 in the morning of June 3, 1864, three Union corps of the Army of the Potomac advanced through thick ground fog and pre-dawn darkness toward Confederate earthworks at Cold H
On June 3, 1621, the States-General of the Dutch Republic, the governing parliament of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, issued a charter establishing the Dutch West India C
On the night of June 2 to 3, 1098, a small group of Crusader knights scaled the walls of Antioch using ladders lowered from inside by a sympathetic Armenian guard named Firouz. Wit
