Today In History
What happened this day in history
Today in History: August 23
August 23: On this day in history Cesar Chavez led the Salad Bowl Strike, Japan entered WW1, a Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck near Mineral, Virginia, and more . . .
Today in History: August 22
The schooner America wins race off the English coast. Haitian Revolution of 1791. San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers get into a fight. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is shot.
Today In History August 21
On this day in history, a violent slave rebellion began in 1831. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas began their debates. 2010, saw the beginning of operations at Iran’s first nuclear power plant,,
Today In History August 20
August 20 In History: Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Soviet suppression of ‘Prague Spring’ in Czechoslovakia, End of U.S. Civil War, Trotsky is shot, Postal worker goes postal