Three August 23 stories move from a secret pact and the Baltic Way to humanity's first view of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon.
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On This Day: August 21
Three August 21 scenes follow a stolen masterpiece, Hawaii's statehood, and an invisible disaster at Lake Nyos.
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On This Day: August 20
Three August 20 scenes follow a mission launched toward Mars, a reform movement crushed in Prague, and a lone school strike that grew into Fridays for Future.
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On This Day: August 19
Three August 19 stories trace what happens when a new possibility meets the public: photography, an invasion plan, and a journey into orbit.
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On This Day: August 17
Three stories from August 17: Indonesia declares independence in 1945, Robert Fulton's steamboat proves commercial steam on the Hudson in 1807, and George Orwell's Animal Farm reaches readers in London the same day as the Jakarta proclamation.
