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15

Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces

Aug

21

Hawaii, the fiftieth state

Aug

24

British troops enter Washington, D.C.

Aug

28

Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

Aug

28

14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement

Aug

28

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream Speech"

August 2022

Day Week Month Year

Aug

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
31	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
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