August 1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee
August 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Virginia
August 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
August 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti
August1918 The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
August1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning
August1941 Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber warns American Ambassador of Japanese
assault on Pearl Harbor
August1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed
August1972 The British Army and the IRA in gun battles around County Armagh
August1976 Morocco-Algeria fight in West Sahara
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