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August 8, 2020

This Day in History: August 8

President Richard Nixon, facing damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, announces he would resign.

August 7, 2020

This Day in History: August 7

Gen. George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart. The U.S. Department of War is established by Congress.

August 6, 2020

This Day in History: August 6

During WWII, the US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in approximately 140,000 deaths.

August 5, 2020

This Day in History: August 5

Nelson Mandela is arrested on charges of leaving South Africa without a passport and inciting workers to strike -- the beginning of 27 years of imprisonment.

August 4, 2020

This Day in History: August 4

The U.S. Coast Guard has its beginnings; Anne Frank is arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo.

August 3, 2020

This Day in History: August 3

Jesse Owens wins the first of his four gold medals for the United States at the Berlin Olympics as he takes the 100-meter sprint.

August 2, 2020

This Day in History: August 2

President Trump decides to withdraw the U.S. from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, the historic arms-control treaty signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

August 1, 2020

This Day in History: August 1

The remains of dozens of presumed casualties of the Korean War are returned to U.S. soil.

July 31, 2020

This Day in History: July 31

President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. 

July 30, 2020

This Day in History: July 30

President Obama holds a "Beer Summit" with scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the officer who arrested him to address the furor over racial profiling in the U.S.