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Friday, August 29, 2025
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Important Events From This day in History August 29
29 Aug, 2005 U.S.A. Hurricane Katrina
2005 : Hurricane Katrina a Category 5 Storm with sustained winds of 145 MPH and gusts reaching 175 MPH is the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States. The storm caused massive devastation in and around the city of New Orleans with some of the worst problems caused when storm surges overwhelmed the city’s levees, flooding 80 percent of the city. Many questions were asked about the federal governments slow response to the people of New Orleans when compared with the response to earlier hurricanes in Florida. Timeline For Hurricane Katrina Events was the most costly natural disaster in American history, with damages of more than $80 billion. In all, more than 1,800 people died and despite efforts to rebuild the city, large parts of New Orleans still remain heavily damaged and many thousands have left the area and are unlikely to return . Find More What happened in 2005.
29 Aug, 1923 Gangs of New York
1923 : In New York City a laundryman who was being bullied and blackmailed by the leader of the Dropper Gang Jak Kaplan took the law into his own hands when he shot and killed the notorious gangster chief. The police in New York have been trying to fasten some crime on Kaplan for the last 6 months have been saved the trouble by one of his victims who many see as a hero.
29 Aug, 1928 Haiti Hurricane
1928 : A severe hurricane in Haiti has left many thousands starving as nearly all local crops were destroyed during the hurricane. The famine is now affecting nearly 100,000 men, women and children.
29 Aug, 1945 Restrictions On Gas Lifted
1945 : Predictions for traffic this coming Labor Day Weekend are predicted to be extremely high due to the restrictions on Gasoline sales having been lifted.
29 Aug, 1949 Russian Troops Mass On The Border
1949 : Radio Moscow has announced today that it has met with 7 communist countries including 4 that border with Yugoslavia over the Tito Question, meanwhile 400 communist tanks and 400,000 Russian troops have massed on the border with Yugoslavia in Hungary.
29 Aug, 1949 Soviet Union First Atomic Bomb
1949 : The Soviet Union test their first atomic bomb, it was near copy of the United States Fat Man bomb with a yield of 21 kilotons, making the Soviet Union the world's second nuclear power. The world was not fully informed until September 23rd nearly one month later.
29 Aug, 1965 U.S.A. Gemini V
1965 : Gemini V returns to Earth bringing the two American astronauts Charles Conrad, and Gordon Cooper, back to Earth after having spent over a week orbiting the earth three days more than any previous missions to space.
29 Aug, 1966 Beatles Candlestick Park
1966 : The Beatles play their final tour date, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
29 Aug, 1974 Windsor Free Festival
1974 : Windsor Free Festival ends when police clash with fans on the final day of the concert, arresting over 200 with charges ranging from breach of the peace to drugs offences. The 1974 festival was the last of the free festivals at Windsor Great Park held in 1972, 1973 and 1974.
29 Aug, 1983 U.S.A. Aids
1983 : The increase in the number of Aids cases in the United States could be as high as 20,000 if the spread of the disease continues at it's current rate . The Aids virus is new to this country with 2,094 reported cases as of today, and currently nobody is sure where it started but believe possibly in Africa, Haiti or Japan.
29 Aug, 1992 Bosnia Crimes Against Humanity
1992 : While Bosnia sinks into the worst cases of crimes against humanity since the second world war, the rest of the world each looks to the other to provide the leadership needed to protect the innocents. Over 8000 have been slaughtered since April and 1.5 million driven from their homes in Ethnic cleansing by the Serbs.
29 Aug, 1998 Northwest Airlines Strike
August 29th, 1998 : A strike by pilots of Northwest Airlines has left 70,000 passengers stranded around the United States and the pilots have said they are prepared for long term action in support of their 15% pay rise. The main airports affected are the Northwest hubs at Minneapolis, Detroit and Memphis but all passengers using Northwest including international travellers are also affected.
29 Aug, 2002 Eminem MTV Video Music Awards
2002 : The rapper Eminem scoops 4 awards including "Video of the Year: Without Meat" at the US MTV Video Music Awards.
29 Aug, 2003 Iraq Bomb Attack in Najaf
August 29th, 2003 : A car bomb has been detonated close to a mosque in the holy city of Najaf killing 80 and injuring a further 100, among those killed was Ayatollah Hakim a leading Shia Muslim politician.
29 Aug, 2004 Greece Olympics End for Four More Years
2004 : The 2004 Summer Olympics end with a spectacular closing ceremony watched by millions around the world as the Olympic Torch is extinguished and passed to China for the 2008 Beijing Games.
29 Aug, 2006 Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
August 29th, 2006 : Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged United States president George W. Bush to an uncensored televised debate. The White House declined his invitation dismissing it as a distraction from the concerns over Iran’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad stated that an open debate would allow the rest of the world to see Iran’s viewpoints.
29 Aug, 2006 USA Warren Jeffs Arrested
2006 : Warren Steed Jeffs is arrested in Nevada by a local patrol officer, Warren Jeffs was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List due to his involvement for alleged arrangement of extralegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls. He was the leader of the controversial polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and in November 20th, 2007 he was found guilty of multiple charges and sentenced to 10 years to life imprisonment.
29 Aug, 2007 United Kingdom Nelson Mandela Statue
2007 : A statue of the former South African president Nelson Mandela was unveiled in Parliament Square in London, England. Mandela and his wife were present for the unveiling and spoke to the crowds that gathered to witness the unveiling.
29 Aug, 2008 Iran - Nigeria Deal
2008 : Iran and Nigeria formed a deal in which Iran would share nuclear technology with Nigeria in order to help the country produce more electricity.
29 Aug, 2009 Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled Homicide
August 29th, 2009 : After an autopsy the Los Angles Coroner’s office ruled that the manner of pop star Michael Jackson’s death was homicide. The official cause of death was declared to be acute intoxication caused by the drug Propofol.
29 Aug, 2011 Airplane Skids Off Runway in India
2011 : Seven passengers were injured when a Gulf Air plane skidded off the runway when landing at Kochi airport in India. Officials stated that the plane arriving from Bahrain narrowly avoided a worse fate by stopping in the mud only thirty meters away from a wall.
29 Aug, 2011 Texas Freshwater Lakes
2011 : Following Extreme drought conditions during the summer Texas freshwater lakes are a fraction of their usual water levels with the state's reservoirs to be at only 68% capacity.
29 Aug, 2012 Australia Surfer Survives Shark Attack
2012 : A man in his thirties suffered injuries on his abdomen and right arm after being attacked by a shark in waters near Western Australia. Other surfers dragged the man from the water and he was taken to a hospital and was reported in stable condition. Authorities were unable to identify what kind of shark attacked.
29 Aug, 2013 United States Fast Food Workers Strike
August 29th, 2013 : Hundreds of fast food workers went on strike in several US cities demanding an increase of wages to about $15.00 an hour, nearly double what most employees at fast food chains earn. Many of the protesters are also wanting the right to unionized without any interference from their employers.
Today in Labor History August 29, 2025
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The Collapse of the Quebec Bridge, 1907
Seventy-five workers out of eighty-six died when the lower St. Lawrence River’s Quebec Bridge collapsed while under construction. A flawed design was found to be the cause. Thirteen more workers were killed nine years later when the reconstructed bridge’s central span was being raised and fell into the river because of a problem with hoisting devices. – 1907
Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club voted 57-15 to be represented by SEIU Local 790. Their first union contract ratified eight months later, guaranteed work shifts, protection against arbitrary discipline and termination, automatic hourly wage increases, sick days, a grievance procedure, and removal of one-way mirrors from peep show booths. The first strip club to unionize was Pacer’s in San Diego under the Hotel Management, Employee Management, Local 30. – 1996
Northwest Airlines pilots, after years of concessions to help the airline, began what was to become a 2-week strike for higher pay. – 1998
Delegates to the Minnesota AFL-CIO convention approved the launching of workdayminnesota.org, now in its sixteenth year. It was the first web-based daily labor news service by a state labor federation. – 2000
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
Important Events From This day in History August 28
28 Aug, 1963 "I Have A Dream Speech"
1963 : More than 200,000 people gather for a peaceful civil rights rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr. makes one of the most well known and quoted speeches in Modern Day History saying the immortal words " I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" to the peaceful demonstrators black and white, poor and rich who had came together in the nation's capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination. Find More What happened in 1963. In October 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4th, 1968, he was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
28 Aug, 1923 New Speeding Laws
1923 : In the ever increasing fight against speeding drivers new laws have been implemented in many states that allow the magistrates to put the car in store for periods of time which depends on the severity of the speeding offence and if the motorist is a repeat offender, also due to the increase in accidents by speeders some are being sentenced to farm labor.
28 Aug, 1928 France Feminist Leaders
1928 : Ten world famous feminist leaders stormed the gates of the presidential palace demanding equal rights, they were carried kicking and struggling off to jail by the local gendarmes. Find out more What Happened in 1928.
28 Aug, 1937 Shanghai Bombing By Japanese
1937 : Japanese warships and aircraft with machine guns and bombs are raging war on women and children in Shanghai including bombing and strafing railway carriages with schoolchildren, the rest of the world is protesting deeply but the Japanese are taking no notice and continue their war on civilians.
28 Aug, 1945 U.S.A. Butter Rationing
1945 : Rationing for butter is to be decreased again with the red points required for butter going down to 12 points per pound, this is the second decrease since July when butter was 24 red points per pound.
28 Aug, 1955 Emmett Till Murder
1955 : Emmett Till, a black fourteen year old teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi after he was accused of disrespect to a local store owner Carolyn Bryant. He was found three days later, he had been badly beaten and his eye had been gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
28 Aug, 1956 Milk Raised to 24 Cents Per Quart
1956 : The price of milk is to be raised to 27 cents per quart for delivery and 24 cents per quart when purchased at a shop.
28 Aug, 1968 Anti-Vietnam War Protesters in Chicago
1968 : At the democratic convention in Chicago 10's of thousands of Anti-Vietnam war protesters battle police in the streets. The mayor of Chicago Richard Daley calls in 15,000 state and federal officers together with Chicago 12,000 officers to control the streets. As the situation worsened Television Cameras were on hand as Police used tear gas and were beating the protesters including innocent newsmen and doctors who had come to aid the injured . The backlash from these happenings shown on news programs throughout the country caused a swell of the ordinary American to question what America was doing in Vietnam if that was how they treated their own citizens.
28 Aug, 1978 Vatican City Pope John Paul I
1978 : The new Pope has been elected by Cardinals, he is Pope John Paul I and in his first action has pledged to follow in the footsteps of Pope Paul VI.
28 Aug, 1985 East German Spies
1985 : An East German couple (Reinhard and Sonja Schulze) have appeared before Horseferry Road magistrates court in London charged under the Official Secrets Act.
28 Aug, 1989 South Africa Township Violence
1989 : The continued fighting in South African townships protesting against the white Apartheid Regime continues to bring more deaths on a daily basis and it is believed over 2,500 have died since this series on troubles began.
28 Aug, 1994 Sunday Trading Laws
1994 : Following a change in Sunday Trading Laws passed, thousands of shops throughout England and Wales have opened legally. Hundreds of thousands of shops were open before but always took the chance of being prosecuted under the 1950 Shops Act. This will affect a few of the largest department store chains who have not opened due to the old laws including Marks and Spencer and the House of Fraser chain of department stores.
28 Aug, 1996 England Diana Divorce Formal
1996 : After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.
28 Aug, 2002 Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr
2002 : WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. are indicted on charges of criminal fraud in connection with the company's collapse.
28 Aug, 2002 Two more deaths from West Nile Virus
August 28th, 2002 : Two more deaths have been recorded from this years attack of West Nile encephalitis an inflammation of the brain caused by the West Nile Virus which is spread by mosquito's, the virus is having it's worst year with 425 reported cases in the US.
28 Aug, 2005 Hurricane Katrina
2005 : One day before Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans it is upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane and the Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin orders everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. 1,000,000 evacuate the city of New Orleans. Find out more information on our Hurricane Katrina Timeline.
28 Aug, 2007 Turkey New President Elected
August 28th, 2007 : The first president with an Islamist background to be elected in Turkey since the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 was sworn into office on this day. His election came amid concerns that his religious background would influence his politics disrupting Turkey’s strongly secular government.
28 Aug, 2011 Hurricane Irene hits East Coast
2011 : Hurricane Irene hit the Eastern coast of the United States causing damage and flooding to many areas along the coast including New York City. Many citizens were ordered to evacuate the area prior to the storm and the storm claimed several lives.
28 Aug, 2012 US Republican Convention Chooses Romney
2012 : The Republican National Convention officially choose Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate after beginning the nomination process. The convention will consist of speeches by popular voices in the party and discussion on the party's platform for the upcoming election.
28 Aug, 2013 Building Collapse in Vadodara
2013 : Eleven people died after a building collapsed in Vadodara, India. The three-floor residential building was home to about twelve families and many more are believed to be trapped in the debris.
Today in Labor History August 28, 2025
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Big Bill Haywood and 14 other members of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) were sentenced to 20 years prison for draft obstruction. – 1918
West Virginia Governor Cornwell requested federal troops to guard the mines and protect scab labor during a strike by miners, resulting in rioting. – 1920
A Filipino Labor Union led a strike of 6,000 California lettuce workers demanding 40-45 cents an hour, union recognition and better working conditions. Striking white farm workers split from the Filipinos and accepted arbitration. The growers accused the Filipinos of being communists, while the highway patrol and armed vigilantes drove striking farmworkers off the farms. In September, vigilantes burned a camp of striking workers down to the ground. Police then raided their union headquarters in Salinas, arresting scores of strikers and their leaders. Despite the violence and police abuse, the strikers held out, eventually winning union recognition and 40 cents an hour wages. – 1933
Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was organized by A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who built an alliance of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations that came together under the banner of “Jobs and Freedom”. Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000. Observers estimated that 75-80% of the marchers were black. – 1963
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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Important Events From This day in History August 27
27 Aug, 1928 Frank Lloyd Wright
1928 : Frank Lloyd Wright the celebrated architect has remarried his long time girlfriend Olga Millinoff a Montenegren Dancer in California. Find More What happened in 1928.
27 Aug, 1934 Chicago Teachers Given Back Pay
1934 : Teachers in Chicago have at last been given their back pay after suffering with no wages for long periods of time. 18,000 teachers were affected because Chicago did not have money to pay them and most will receive over $1,000. Many lined up at the bank from long before the bank opened to cash their checks and it is expected that local traders would see a spending spree and paying of long outstanding bills which would help to boost the local economy.
27 Aug, 1955 Guinness Book of World Records
1955 : The "Guinness Book of World Records" compiled by student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter is published for the first time and becomes an instant success. The book was originally owned by the Guinness Brewery (Hence The Name) it is currently owned by (the Jim Pattison Group) which the same company who owns Ripley Entertainment, Inc. The Guinness Book of Records holds it's own record as the world's most sold copyrighted book. Find out more What Happened in 1955.
27 Aug, 1962 Mariner 2 Space Probe
1962 : The American space agency NASA launch the Mariner 2 space probe from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Mariner 2 flew past Venus 3½ months later collecting radiometric temperature measurement and Interplanetary Magnetic Field measurements.
27 Aug, 1967 UK Harold Wilson
1967 : Harold Wilson the British Prime minister has announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet and has dropped a number of the old guard Labour members to bring in new blood with fresh ideas to combat the problems of mounting unemployment and the public's disillusionment of the current Labour government.
27 Aug, 1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten Murdered
1979 : The second cousin of the Queen Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed when IRA terrorists detonate a 50-pound bomb on his fishing boat in Donegal Bay off Ireland's northwest coast. Three others were also killed in the attack, he was one of the most popular members of the royal family because he was fighting alongside his fellow Brits as a Commander in the British Royal navy, including commanding the HMS Kelly which was sunk early in the war, he still continued sea service taking his chances alongside his men. What Else Happened In 1979.
27 Aug, 1979 South Down Bombing
1979 : Eighteen British soldiers from the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment are killed by two booby trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down, in Northern Ireland close to the border with the Irish Republic.
27 Aug, 1989 Sky TV Launched
1989 : Rupert Murdoch who owns the Fox Television network in the United States has launched Sky TV which is received by paying subscribers via satellite dishes in England following on from his holdings in the UK newspaper market including The Times and The Sun.
27 Aug, 1990 Trial Convicts Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders
1990 : Former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders and his three conspirators Gerald Ronson, Sir Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes are convicted for involvement in a conspiracy to drive up the price of shares of Guinness.
27 Aug, 1992 Iraq No Fly Zone
1992 : President George Bush has informed Iraq's President Saddam Hussein that a no fly zone is now in place over southern Iraq , the No Fly Zone was authorized under United Nations Resolution in 1991 that demanded an end to the repression of civilians including Shiite Muslims, the no fly zone will stay in effect until international peacekeepers have confirmed or denied reports and will stay in place until it is no longer needed.
27 Aug, 1998 Russia Ruble
1998 : Trading on the markets in the Russian Ruble have been suspended for the third day as the Ruble has continued it's downward spiral currently trading on the unofficial market is seeing the Ruble trading at close to 15 rubles to the dollar (just 3 weeks ago the figure was 6 rubles to the dollar). In addition to the ruble's problems the Moscow stock market has lost a further 60% in just 1 week with no signs of a let up.
27 Aug, 2006 Kentucky Plane Crash
August 27th, 2006 : A (Delta Air Lines) Comair CRJ-100 passenger jet carrying 50 people has crashed shortly after taking off from Lexington airport in Kentucky, killing all but one on board.
27 Aug, 2006 World's Oldest Woman Dies
2006 : The world’s oldest woman died on this day of complications caused by pneumonia. Maria Esther de Capovilla was 116 years old and lived in Guayaquil, Colombia. She was generally in good health and her death was unexpected. Maria Esther de Capovilla had five children, eleven grand children, twenty great-grand children, and two great-great grandchildren.
27 Aug, 2007 Alberto Gonzales
2007 : After much investigation and fighting, United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation. The resignation came after accusations of abuse of power in the Bush administration over the firing of federal prosecutors that were believed to be for political reasons. He would officially leave office on September 17th.
27 Aug, 2009 New Dinosaur Species Discovered
2009 : A new dinosaur species was discovered in Australia by paleontologists on a sheep farm in Queensland. The fossils of the dinosaur are estimated to be around 97 million years old and belong to an herbivore sauropod.
27 Aug, 2012 Italian Miners in Underground Protest
August 27th, 2012 : Around one-hundred miners barricaded themselves underground with explosives in a pit in the island of Sardinia in protest of the closing of the country's only mine. If the mine was shut down they would all lose their jobs and they planned on staying underground until they get a meeting with the government.
27 Aug, 2013 Walmart to Give Same-Sex Benefits
2013 : US retailer Wal-Mart, the largest private sector employer in the United States, stated they would begin to offer health insurance to same-sex partners of their workers. The change in policy came after the US Supreme Court ruled that the government must recognize same-sex marriages in the states that have legalized it.
Today in Labor History August 27th, 2025
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Filipino Lettuce Cutters Strike
The Voice of Industry was a worker-run newspaper that ran from 1845 to 1848. In 1845 the LFLRA used the Voice of Industry newspaper to gather 2000 signatures for a petition to the Massachusetts statehouse seeking reforms to women’s working and living conditions. - 1845
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants accused of murder, are executed in Massachusetts. Their highly publicized trial and execution became a symbol of injustice and sparked protests and strikes across the globe. - 1927
Some 14,000 Chicago teachers who had gone without pay for several months finally collected about $1,400 each. – 1934
Filipino lettuce cutters and mainly white packing shed workers struck the powerful Salinas Valley growers and shippers, demanding union recognition and improved conditions. – 1934
The Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which would later become the United Farm Workers of America, was granted its charter by the AFL-CIO. - 1966
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Important Events From This day in History August 26
26 Aug, 1957 Edsel Automobiles
1957 : The Ford Motor Companies first Edsel automobile rolls of the production line ready for the publicity machine to kick in one month later. The original models sold in 1958 included the Citation and Corsair, and the Pacer and Ranger. By the end of 1959 Ford announced the end of the sale of Edsel cars after Ford had lost approx $350 million on the project. In 1958 an Edsel Citation 2-Door Hardtop cost about $3,500.
26 Aug, 1920 U.S.A. 19th Amendment
1920 : The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Find More What happened in 1920.
26 Aug, 1928 Nicotine Concerns
1928 : Since so much material has been written about the dangers about Nicotine in Tobacco, a number of manufacturers are trying to reduce the amount of Nicotine in Cigarettes and Cigars by Re sweating the tobacco using pre-heated steam, and are putting them on the shelves proclaiming they are de-nicotized, but they do still contain some Nicotine as the processes are not perfect.
26 Aug, 1932 Temporary Halt On Foreclosures
1932 : With America in the depths of the worst depression ever seen millions of people could not keep up with mortgage payments due to the mass unemployment. In a move to offer some relief the Comptroller of the Currency (or OCC) announced a temporary halt on foreclosures of first mortgages.
26 Aug, 1934 Germany Expels Foreign Correspondents
1934 : Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine is now expelling foreign correspondents who place a slur or criticize Adolf Hitler and the latest is a US correspondent Dorothy Thompson.
26 Aug, 1945 U.S.A. Manhattan Project
1945 : It has been revealed that over 25,000 mice were used in the Manhattan project to determine if radiation would have any ill effects on the workers in Atomic Bomb Plants.
26 Aug, 1956 Cyprus Archbishop Makarios
1956 : Britain has accused exiled Archbishop Makarios of inciting and orchestrating the bombing and terrorist acts by Greek Cypriots on Cyprus.
26 Aug, 1978 Voting For New Pope
August 26th, 1978 : Cardinals have begun the Papal Enclave to choose the 236rd Pope, the 111 prelates are inside the Sistine Chapel and could well be many days before they choose the successor to Pope Paul VI.
26 Aug, 1989 Assistance For Battling Drug Lords
1989 : The United States is sending helicopters, Machine Guns, Mortars, four wheel drive personal carriers and the ammunition they are also sending medical equipment to help the Columbian Government battle the Drug Lords. They also sending military advisers but are not sending troops. The U.S. is also sending financial aid to encourage farmers to move from drug related crops to more traditional crops.
26 Aug, 1994 UK LVAD Heart
1994 : A man has been given the world's first battery operated Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), the device is used to help the work of the Heart's left ventricle by performing the pumping action needed, in a pioneering operation in Britain.
26 Aug, 2001 Australia MV Tampa
2001 : The MV Tampa a Norwegian Cargo Vessel receives a distress call from Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) Australia, to rescue 439 Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel in international waters beginning an International incident involving Australia, Norway, Indonesia, New Zealand and the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. The Afghans were attempting to gain entry into Australia through entry to the Christmas Islands an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean where they planned to seek asylum as refugees. The Australian government refused the rescue ship entry to Australian waters and sent members of the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) to assist with medical emergencies. The refugees eventually ended up in New Zealand and Nauru where most were refused asylum status and sent back to their places of origin in Afghanistan and Iraq. Australia was criticized by many countries, particularly Norway, who accused it of evading its human rights responsibilities.
26 Aug, 2002 South Africa Earth Summit
2002 : 60,000 delegates and politicians from 174 countries around the world have gathered for the latest Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa (the last one was 10 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
26 Aug, 2002 Possible Attack by US on Iraq
2002 : The mood in Washington is bullish over a possible attack by US forces on Iraq without gaining approval from both houses as lawyers have declared that US President George W. Bush does not need approval due to his status as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Saddam Hussein has warned that Iraq "will never surrender" to an invasion and will fight to the last man to protect it's sovereignty.
26 Aug, 2004 Number of Poor Increases to 35 million
2004 : The US Census Bureau has released new figures which put the number of poor in the US at 35.9 million an increase of more than 1 million. The definition of poor is a family of four with an annual income of less than $18,810 and less than $9,393 for a single person.
26 Aug, 2005 France Hostel Fire In Paris
2005 : A fire in a charitable organizations hostel to house African immigrant hostel in Paris has killed Fourteen children and three adults.
26 Aug, 2006 Catholic Bishop Released After 10 Years
August 26th, 2006 : An underground Roman Catholic Bishop in China was released from prison after ten years. The Bishop was arrested for being loyal to the Vatican above all and jailed with other underground Roman Catholics, this is because China only recognizes the authority of its state-run churches.
26 Aug, 2007 Greece Multiple Forest Fires
2007 : The country of Greece declared a state of emergency as multiple forest fires, over 200, continued to assault various parts of the country. By the time the fires were tamed in September 2007, 84 people had died as a result. Many of the fires were believed to be the cause of arson.
26 Aug, 2008 Barack Obama Nominated
2008 : Democrats gathered at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado to officially nominate Barack Obama as their presidential candidate. Obama became the first African-American presidential candidate.
26 Aug, 2011 Bodies Found in Abandoned Tripoli Hospital
2011 : Hundreds of dead bodies were found in a Tripoli hospital that was abandoned after being surrounded by clashes between rebels and Gaddafi's forces. People who had sustained injuries were taken to the hospital for treatment but nearly all of the staff had fled and the people had been left in the hospital to die. Seventeen survivors were found within the hospital.
26 Aug, 2012 Bus and Tanker Collide in China
August 26th, 2012 : Thirty-six people died after a bus collided with a tanker in the city of Yanan. Both vehicles burst into flames after the two collided and only three people survived the incident.
26 Aug, 2013 Students Fail University Admission Exam
2013 : Not a single student in who took Liberia's admission test for the University of Liberia passed this year's exam. The country is still recovering from a very long civil war and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stated that the education system needed to be improved.
Today in Labor History – August 26, 2025
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Fannie Sellins
Fannie Sellins, an organizer with the United Mine Workers, witnessed a guard beating Joseph Starzeleski, a picketing miner, to death. When she intervened, deputies shot and killed her with four bullets, and one deputy used a cudgel to fracture her skull. – 1919
After three-quarters of the states ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, women won their long struggle for the vote. – 1920
With America in the depths of the Great Depression, the Comptroller of the Currency announced a temporary halt on foreclosures of first mortgages. – 1932
The United Auto Workers was founded, with Francis Dillon appointed as the first president. – 1935
In what some may consider one of the many management decisions that helped cripple the American auto industry over the following decades, Ford Motor Company produced its first Edsel. Ford dropped the project two years later after losing approximately $350 million. – 1957
The Women’s Strike for Equality was staged in cities across the U.S., marking the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment under which women won the right to vote. A key focus of the strike, more accurately a series of marches and demonstrations, was equality in the workplace. An estimated 20,000 women participated, some carrying signs with the iconic slogan, “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot.” Another sign: “Hardhats for Soft Broads”. At the time, the gathering was the largest on behalf of women in the United States. – 1970
More than 1,300 bus drivers in Oahu, Hawaii, began what was to become a 5-week strike. This crippled the public transportation service that accommodated 240,000 rides per day. – 2003
Monday, August 25, 2025
Monday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
Community engagement 2.0, with Anita Li of The Green Line - Journalism UK
Important Events From This day in History August 25
25 Aug, 1944 WWII Paris Liberated
1944 : Paris is liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and General Charles de Gaulle who had been the leader of the free French forces enters Paris the next day. Find More What happened in 1944
25 Aug, 1916 National Park Service
1916 : The National Park Service is established by Congress with the "National Park Service Organic Act" to protect areas designated as national parks and the National Register of Historic Places. National Parks Website is http://www.nps.gov/
25 Aug, 1923 U.S.A. New Record Set
1923 : US Postal Service Aviators have set a new record to span the continent at 27 hours 14 minutes breaking the previous record set by Army Aviators last May. They are excited over the implications that they can provide a quicker service to customers throughout the nation.
25 Aug, 1945 Great Britain Evacuees Home
1945 : After nearly 4 years away from home children are being reunited with parents, some who were evacuated to as far away as America, these children and parents will have a lot of catching up to do as well as adjusting back to a very different life. Many of the children were evacuated to rural areas in England and America and are going back to large cities.
25 Aug, 1950 Railroads Under Army Control
1950 : President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order putting America’s railroads under the control of the U.S. Army, two days later in anticipation of a strike by railway workers Unions, The strike continued for 21 months at which time Unions agreed to the administrations terms and went back to work.
25 Aug, 1956 Egypt Suez Canal
1956 : President Nasser has come up with an alternative plan for the Suez canal offering guaranteed unimpeded shipping through the Suez canal in response to the demand for internationalization of the canal by 18 countries, the use of force is no longer on the agenda as all countries are now seeking a diplomatic solution to this problem.
25 Aug, 1967 American Nazi Party
1967 : George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi party has been shot and killed by a sniper at a shopping center in Arlington, Virginia. George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party in 1959 which was originally known as the World Union of Free Enterprise and National Socialists.
25 Aug, 1967 Beatles Study Transcendental Meditation
1967 : The Beatles Go to Bangor in Wales to study Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi prior to the time spent on a training course in Rishikesh, India in 1968 where much of their White Album was written.
25 Aug, 1975 "Born to Run" Released
1975 : The third Bruce Springsteen album "Born to Run" by is released, the album turns Springsteen into a worldwide superstar and is considered to be in the top all time 20 albums by most music critics. Find out What Happened in 1975.
Side One "Born to Run" - Thunder Road, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, Night, Backstreets
Side Two "Born to Run" - Born to Run, She's the One, Meeting Across the River, Jungleland
25 Aug, 1989 Voyager 2 Reaches Neptune
1989 : The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has reached the Planet Neptune which is over two billion miles from Earth and sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets.
25 Aug, 1991 Sweden First Linux Release
August 25th, 1991 : Linus Torvalds releases his first version of the Linux operating system kernel (0.01 of Linux) called 'Freax' in the makefile to the world and announces it through a Usenet posting on a newsgroup which could be found on the ftp server at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT). The Linux operating system is a Unix-like operating system kernel and is distributed under GNU General Public License. The original kernel was based on earlier work done by Richard Stallman on the GNU Project, started in 1984. The majority of the servers on the internet I.E. (where this site and millions of others) use Apache software that runs on top of the Linux kernel.
25 Aug, 1992 Diana Phone Call Recorded
1992 : The Sun Newspaper has published a recorded telephone conversation with an unknown woman who may or may not be Diana the Princess of Wales talking to an unknown man about her unhappy marriage, They have now made the tape available on a 95 cents per minute telephone service and thousands are paying up to $22.00 to listen to the full recording.
Today in Labor History – August 25, 2025
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A. Philip Randolph
Allen Pinkerton was born on this day, founder of the Pinkerton private police force, whose strike breaking detectives (Pinkertons, or ‘Pinks’) gave us the word ‘fink’ as they slaughtered dozens of workers in various labor struggles. – 1819
West Virginia Governor Ephraim Morgan asked President Warren Harding for Federal troops and military aircraft to suppress the United Mine Workers’ militant actions. – 1921
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded at a meeting in New York City. A. Philip Randolph became the union’s first organizer. – 1925
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signed its first contract with Pullman. – 1937
President Harry Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation’s railroads. The motivation was simple: the railroad unions had been threatening a strike that could lead to a shutdown. Truman instead took control in order to keep the railroad running and to force the unions to accede. It was an unexpected action from a strongly business-minded president, especially giving the circumstances surrounding the strike. The railroads were kept under federal control for two years. – 1950
The Battle of Lincoln Park occurred during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Roughly 10,000 demonstrators battled approximately 11,000 riot police, 6,000 National Guardsmen, 7,500 US army troops and 1,000 FBI, CIA & Army/Navy intelligence services agents. – 1968
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