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Belgium withdraws from the Mixed relay triathlon event after triathlete Claire Michel becomes ill days after she swam in the Seine river during the women's triathlon event. Thailand at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Kunlavut Vitidsarn wins the silver medal in the Men's singles badminton event, earning Thailand its first medal in the sport.
August 5, 1958 (Tuesday) [ edit ] East German Army Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried Dombrowski , the deputy director of intelligence administration for the Communist nation's military intelligence agency, drove across the border into West Berlin along with his wife and children and 71,000 West German marks, and asked the U.S. Army to give him asylum.
The following events occurred in August 1962: August 1, 1962 (Wednesday) A monument to the Kulungulu attack [1] ... For only the fifth time in its history, ...
Rwanda formally accuses senior French officials, including former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and late President François Mitterrand, of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and calls for them to be put on trial.
In honor of AOL's 35th birthday on May 24, we're taking a look back at some of the company's definitive moments, like history-breaking mergers and record-breaking numbers, and how it shaped the ...
August 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois. August 5: A commemorative stamp for the first transatlantic telegraph cable. August – The first aerial photography is carried out by Nadar, from a moored balloon in France. [11] September 11 – Dom, the third-highest summit in the Alps, is first ascended.