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06

Battle of Mobile Bay

Aug

06

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

Aug

09

Richard Nixon resigns as President

Aug

09

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

Aug

10

Missouri, the twenty-fourth state

Aug

15

Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces

August 2021

Day Week Month Year

Aug

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 Colorado, the thirty-eighth state	2 Declaration of Independence signed	3	4 Birth of the U.S. Coast Guard	5	6 Battle of Mobile Bay Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan	7
8	9 Richard Nixon resigns as President Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan	10 Missouri, the twenty-fourth state	11	12	13	14
15 Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces	16	17	18	19	20	21 Hawaii, the fiftieth state
22	23	24 British troops enter Washington, D.C.	25	26	27	28 Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream Speech" 14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement
29	30	31	1	2 Battle of Atlanta Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender	3	4
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