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Jèrriais : 21 d'Août – Guernésiais : 21 du meis d'l'avout – Cotentinais : 21 d'âot Ch'est l'233 e jour d'l'an s'lon l' almonnas Grégorien . (234 e jour ès années bissextiles).
August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) ... 1960 – Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.
August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 135 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico. 1962 – The Beatles fire Pete Best and hire Ringo Starr. 1962 – Algeria joins the Arab League. 1964 – A coup occurs in South Vietnam, where President Duong Van Minh is replaced by Nguyen Khanh.
August 22, 1950 (Tuesday) Abd El Rehim of Egypt broke a 24-year-old record for fastest time crossing the English Channel, finishing in 10 hours and 53 minutes. A swimmer from France also broke the world's record of 11:05 held by Georges Michel since 1926, but was ten minutes behind Rehim.
2 days ago · The final /t/ is now predominantly sounded in France, but mostly silent elsewhere. The disyllabic pronunciations are dated in Europe, but remain common variants in North America. Homophones: aoûts (general), aoûte, aoûtent, aoûtes (forms with /t/), ou, où (form /u/), hou, houe, houes, houx (form /u/, but aspirated)
Constitution of Katanga. The Constitution of the State of Katanga was the constitution of the State of Katanga, an unrecognised secessionist state which proclaimed its independence from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) on 11 July 1960. Katanga became independent eleven days after the Congo gained its independence from Belgium.
