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On September 7, 1977, the Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the waterway to Panama ...
09/07/2026

On September 7, 1977, the Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the waterway to Panama at the end of 1999, was signed in Washington by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.

On September 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter hosted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem B...
09/05/2026

On September 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter hosted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David, Md., for Middle East peace talks that laid the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. The summit resulted in the Camp David Accords, which earned Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Carter Center

On September 1, 1991, U.S. President George H.W. Bush established diplomatic relations with Latvia, Lithuania and Estoni...
09/01/2026

On September 1, 1991, U.S. President George H.W. Bush established diplomatic relations with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

08/26/2026

On August 26, 1957, the Soviet Union announced it had successfully developed and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.

In 2026, Russia has an estimated 5,459 warheads in its nuclear arsenal.

On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office as U.S. president after Richard Nixon’s resignati...
08/09/2026

On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office as U.S. president after Richard Nixon’s resignation; in a speech afterward, Ford declared that “our long national nightmare is over.”

The Gerald Ford Presidential Library & Museum Michigan Republican Party Auburn University Auburn Alumni Association The Opelika-Auburn News

08/07/2026

On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

"Viewed historically, the American intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s was an incident of gunboat diplomacy writ large; from outside we hoped by superior firepower to shape the domestic polity of an Asian people."

"No informed American can think of Vietnam without shame..." John King Frederick, "The United States and China," Fourth Edition. 1983.

Support Vietnam veterans, their families, and Vietnamese refugees. Thank you.

Vietnam Veterans of America Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Associates of Vietnam Veterans of America Vietnam Business Coalition for Women's Empowerment Auburn University Auburn Alumni Association Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW The American Legion National Headquarters

Photo: Reflections on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.

"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" W. H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier.

On August 4, 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the N**i Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Fran...
08/03/2026

On August 4, 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the N**i Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam, Netherlands, warehouse. She died less than a year later in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

Remembering Robert Conquest (1917- d. August 3, 2015), English-American historian, poet, and academic. This AP obituary ...
08/03/2026

Remembering Robert Conquest (1917- d. August 3, 2015), English-American historian, poet, and academic.

This AP obituary is sourced from the San Francisco Chronicle.

On July 31, 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first t...
07/31/2026

On July 31, 1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.

US Senate, Capitol Hill Club, National Portrait Gallery, my late wife Evelyn Y. Davis with President and Mrs. Bush.

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

Remembering Matthew Ridgway (1895- July 26, 1993). "There would not be a South Korea without him."
07/26/2026

Remembering Matthew Ridgway (1895- July 26, 1993).

"There would not be a South Korea without him."

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