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 IBM Releases its First Personal ComputerIBM Releases its First Personal Computer by The Ovi Team
12th Aug. 1981; IBM released its first PC, or personal computer, the IBM 5150 which sold for around $1,600 as a basic configuration but to get a fully working PC with 64 kb of RAM and a single 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and monitor cost $3,005.
 
 AlcatrazAlcatraz by The Ovi Team
11th Aug. 1934; The Prisoners that are considered the most dangerous are sent to Alcatraz "The Rock" because it is considered to be one of the hardest prisons in the world to escape from due to the strong tides.
 
 Storming of the Tuileries PalaceStorming of the Tuileries Palace by The Ovi Team
August 10th 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob - with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the "insurrectionary" Paris Commune - besieged the Tuileries palace. King Louis XVI and the royal family took shelte
 
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 Nixon ResignsNixon Resigns by The Ovi Team
8th Aug. 1974; Richard Nixon Announces his resignation following the Watergate Scandal during a nationally televised broadcast, follows report from the Washington Post at the time of the events.
 
 The Battle of BoyacaThe Battle of Boyaca by The Ovi Team
August 7, 1819; Simon Bolivar declares victory to the British Legion in the Battle of Boyaca. The Battle of Boyaca in Colombia, then known as New Granada, was the battle in which Colombia acquired its definitive independence from Spanish Monarchy, althoug
 
 An atomic bomb in HiroshimaAn atomic bomb in Hiroshima by The Ovi Team
6th Aug. 1945; An atomic bomb was used containing more power than 12,000 tons of TNT and producing more than 2,000 times the blast of the most powerful bomb ever dropped before was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 140,000 people in t
 
 Freedom of the pressFreedom of the press by The Ovi Team
5th August 1735; New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
 
 Anne Frank CapturedAnne Frank Captured by The Ovi Team
4th Aug. 1944; The Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.
 
 North Pole NautilusNorth Pole Nautilus by The Ovi Team
3rd Aug. 1958; The US Nuclear Submarine Nautilus is the first undersea vessel to reach the Geographic North Pole
 
 The Rebellion of TreblinkaThe Rebellion of Treblinka by The Ovi Team
2nd Aug. 1943; Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. The prisoners seized small arms, sprayed kerosene on all the buildings and set them ablaze. In the confusion, a number of guards were killed but many more prisoners perished. Of 1,500 prisoners
 
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