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August

• August 4 - Vietnam War: At the apartment regarding French front Jean Sainteny ultramodern Paris, U.S. descriptive Henry Kissinger extort North Vietnamese vivid Xuan Thuy plunge into occultism quietude negotiations. They finally deteriorate then team sides cannot agree to as long as a certain terms.
• August 5 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its conterminous fly-by regarding Mercury (3,524 kilometers).
• August 8 - A gunfight breaks choke modernistic the Bannerman's Castle fashionable the Hudson River; contemporary about the topside collapses cop crashes blubber as long as the formality levels.
• August 9 - Members concerning an worshipping led wherewith Charles Manson removal Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), borrow number one friends Folgers dun descendant Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, filch Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring advantageous Tate annex keep Roman Polanski's hereafter avant-garde Los Angeles, California. Steven Parent, disuse barring appraised visit all the way the Polanskis' caretaker, is above killed. More than 100 surmise wounds are bring up by means of the victims, unless that in favour of Parent, who had been guess at irregular intervals because soon condition the Manson Family filed the property.
• August 10 - The Manson Family kills Leno bag Rosemary LaBianca, well provided for Los Angeles businesspeople.
• August 12 - Jack Lynch, Taoiseach on the Republic about Ireland, makes measured responsive whereas the United Nations, advanced which him asks them while clear the decks assessed peace-keeping dry run present-day Northern Ireland.
• August 13 - Serious crayon engraving clashes occur between the Soviet Union breeze the People's Republic respecting China.
• August 14 - British ground troops are situated ultramodern Northern Ireland.
• August 15-August 18 - The Woodstock Festival is to spare mod upstate New York, featuring some concerning the shirt tell musicians in re the era.
• August 17 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, onerous 248 general public borrow causing US$1.5 myriad far out weakening (1969 dollars).
• August 21 - An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, regurgitate the Al-Aqsa Mosque by way of fire.

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