Library of Congress A great wail went up in Honolulu on August 12, 1898, as the flag of Hawai'i was replaced with an American flag, flapping crisply in the wind. The wail rose to memorialize a ...

On August 22, 1991, the white, blue and red flag once again flew over Russia," the president stressed. According to Putin, "the national flag and the unfading Red Banner of Victory instil in the ...

MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev, has said that the lessons of the 1991 government coup are still relevant today and both society and the state ...