THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 5
August 5 in history
What happened on August 5: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1864 and 1950, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Mobile Bay
5 Aug 1864 — “Damn the torpedoes — full speed ahead!” Farragut runs the mined channel past the forts and closes the Gulf’s last great blockade-running port.
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— Charter of the German Expellees
5 Aug 1950 — Expellee leaders meeting in Stuttgart renounce “revenge and retaliation” and call for a united Europe. Historians praise its restraint and criticise its silence on Nazi crimes and its claim that expellees suffered more than anyone.
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