The Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and authorised federal officials to oversee voter registration in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination, resulting in a substantial increase in voter registration and political participation among African Americans in the years that ...
Aug 6
Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace was captured by English forces at Robroyston near ...
Aug 5
On 4 August 221 Lady Zhen, the wife of Cao Pi of Wei of the Three Kingdoms, ...
Aug 4
As Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey had attempted to prevent the crisis but these efforts proved unsuccessful and, during the evening of 3 August, he reportedly remarked, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our ...
Aug 3
Hannibal’s army inflicted a devastating defeat on the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of ...
Aug 2
George, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great ...
Aug 1
The astronauts visited geological features near the Apollo 15 landing site in the Hadley-Apennine region, collected samples, and deployed scientific experiments, while television images transmitted from the rover allowed audiences on Earth to observe the ...
Jul 31
La Marseillaise was composed by a French army officer and was originally called the ‘War Song for the Army of the Rhine’ with the aim of rallying soldiers fighting in Strasbourg during the French Revolutionary ...
Jul 30
James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was forced to abdicate in favour of her young son a month after she was ...
Jul 29
British officials regarded the Acadian population as a security risk and, on 28 July, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence and his council resolved that the Acadians should be removed and dispersed among Britain’s North American ...
Jul 28
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