14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk and triggers the formation of the Solidarity trade union
Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to achieve political ...
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13th August 1521: Aztec Empire ends with the Fall of Tenochtitlan to Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés
The Aztec defence was led by the Emperor Cuauhtémoc but, despite determined resistance, the defenders were gradually overwhelmed and Cuauhtémoc was captured while trying to flee the ...
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12th August 1981: IBM announces the release of the 5150, the first IBM Personal Computer
The IBM PC quickly became a commercial success and a standard in the emerging personal computer industry, establishing a broad market based on the IBM model that accelerated the spread of home ...
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11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs
The ball sailed over the right-field fence to land in Lexington Avenue that ran alongside Cleveland’s League ...
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10th August 1961: United States begins Operation Ranch Hand to destroy trees and crops during the Vietnam War
Operation Ranch Hand was part of a strategy by the U.S. to counter the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces by targeting agricultural areas and forest cover with chemicals such as Agent ...
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