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Europe 1991: Soviet Coup Attempt

By now the forces unleashed by Gorbachev were beginning to test the structural integrity of... SEE MORE...

Events on 19 August

starts 1923

American settlement on Wrangel Island

ends 1944

Operation Bagration

starts 1945

Viet Minh seize power in Vietnam

starts 1944

Allies liberate Paris

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