August 1940

Saturday 03:

Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.

The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.

Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice-ax. He will die the next day.

World War II: The Germans start bombing London.

Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.

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