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|  Keats returns by The Ovi Team
08 August 2020
August 8th 1818; on this day, 22-year-old John Keats returns from a strenuous walking tour of the Lake Districts and Scotland with friends. On the tour, he begins to show symptoms of the tuberculosis that will kill him within three years. (1 comment) |  Gandhi's "Quit India" speech by The Ovi Team
08 August 2020
The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. You can read it in full here... (1 comment) |  President Nixon to resign from office by The Ovi Team
08 August 2020
August 8th 1974; Richard Nixon has announced he is stepping down as president of the United States - the first man ever to do so. He has announced his departure in the face of an imminent impeachment trial... (Add a comment) |  Quo Vadis Europa? by Christos Mouzeviris
07 August 2020
For the past decade Europe has shown an incredible resilience to consecutive waves of crises. After the Eurozone one, came the refugee and the Syria crisis, then Brexit and now we face a global pandemic... (Add a comment) |  Death From the Sky: Hiroshima and Normalised Atrocities by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
07 August 2020
When US President Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another on Nagasaki a few days later, he was not acting as an agent untethered from history. (Add a comment) |  Anti-Semitic stereotypes by Joseph Gatt
07 August 2020
There are mainly three anti-Semitic "schools" in the world. The Islamic school, the Nationalist school and the Communist school. Note that many Muslims are indifferent to the Jews... (Add a comment) |  Berserk Alert! #177 by Tony Zuvela
07 August 2020
Tony Zuvela and his view of the world around us in a constant berserk alert! (Add a comment) |  Arthur Miller cleared of contempt by The Ovi Team
07 August 2020
August 7th 1958; Washington's Court of Appeals has quashed playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress after a two-year legal battle. In May the year before, a judge convicted Mr Miller for refusing to tell... (Add a comment) |  Henry Fielding leaves London for Lisbon by The Ovi Team
07 August 2020
August 7th; on this day in 1754, novelist Henry Fielding leaves London for Lisbon seeking a healthier climate. Fielding had suffered from ill health for some time, but his trip to Lisbon fails to ease his condition. He dies there two months later. (Add a comment) |  Hiroshima Anniversary Day: Developing a Nuclear-weapon Abolition Strategy by Rene Wadlow
06 August 2020
Thus governments and civil society groups, often at odds on other questions, might be able to set out a strategy for progress toward a nuclear-weapon-free world. There has always been an ebb and flow... (Add a comment) | | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 older |
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