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Friday, 19 June 2026
Aug 06 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq 
Aug 07 Eva Sully Block, actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88.
Aug 07 Saudi Arabia allows US troops on their soil to stop an Iraqi invasion.
Aug 08 Iraq annexes Kuwait.
Aug 09 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
Aug 09 Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies.
Aug 10 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
Aug 10 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
Aug 11 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.
Aug 12 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania.
Aug 12 Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87.
Aug 12 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
Aug 13 Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86
Aug 15 Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66.
Aug 16 Iraq orders 4000 Britons and 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
Aug 17 "The Exorcist 3" premiers.
Aug 17 Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack.
Aug 17 Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72.
Aug 17 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
Aug 18 B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
Aug 19 Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
Aug 20 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
Aug 20 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields).
Aug 20 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies.
Aug 21 Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum
Aug 21 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
Aug 22 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45.
Aug 22 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
Aug 22 Scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.
Aug 23 David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
Aug 24 Iraqi troops surround US and other embassies in Kuwait City
Aug 25 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
Aug 26 2 slain college students are discovered in Gainesville Florida.
Aug 27 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq.
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