MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 1
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 1
August 1 in history
1944
Warsaw rises. The Home Army seizes half the city and waits for help that stands still across the river — for sixty-three days.
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1975 — The Helsinki Accords
1 Aug 1975 — Thirty-five states ratify Europe’s postwar borders — Moscow’s prize — in exchange for “Basket III” human-rights pledges Moscow thinks are decoration. Dissidents will hold it to the letter.
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