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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
1980 August 14: Founding of Polish non-governmental trade union Solidarność
1945 August 15: National Liberation Day of Korea
1991 August 19: 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt, August Putsch
1991 August 20: Day of Restoration of Independence of Estonia
1939 August 23: European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
1979 August 23: Baltic Appeal
1989 August 23: Baltic Way
1991 August 24: Ukraine Independence Day
1991 August 27: Moldova Independence Day
August 30: International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
1991 August 31: Kyrgyzstan Independence Day
1993 August 31: Withdrawal of Soviet military from Lithuania, Freedom Day
1939 August 1: Nazi Invasion of Poland and Beginning of WW2
1991 September 1: Uzbekistan Independence Day
1960 September 2: Tibetan Democracy Day
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