AUGUST 23
2000:Richard Hatch wins $1 million as the winner of the first season of CBS’s Survivor. An estimated 51 million television viewers tune in to watch the smash hit reality show.
1775: King George III of England proclaims that the American colonies are in a state of “open and avowed rebellion” and orders British officials to suppress the revolutionary efforts of the colonists.
1939: Barely a week before the German invasion of Poland, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signs a non-aggression pact with his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, as the ideologically opposed nations divide up northern and eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Adolf Hitler breaks the pact in June 1941 by ordering Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
1775: King George III of England proclaims that the American colonies are in a state of “open and avowed rebellion” and orders British officials to suppress the revolutionary efforts of the colonists.
1939: Barely a week before the German invasion of Poland, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signs a non-aggression pact with his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, as the ideologically opposed nations divide up northern and eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Adolf Hitler breaks the pact in June 1941 by ordering Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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