August 2011

Union victory at Battle of Jonesboro

Princess Diana passes away

Thomas Edison receives patent for the Kinetoscope

Moscow-Washington hotline

Thurgood Marshall confirmed

Second Manassas

Air Force Academy opens

Jones Act

Shays' Rebellion begins

Gen. Robert E. Lee, alongside Gen. Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Joseph Johnston, are promoted

RICHMOND, VA. Gen. Robert E. Lee, alongside Gen. Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Joseph Johnston, are promoted to the rank of full general.

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