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5 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 2019 Indian government announces it is changing the status of Indian-controlled Kashmir from a state to a union territory, revoking Article 370 in response to security concerns.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1861 President Lincoln signs the first US personal Income Tax into law (3% of incomes over $800).
- 1914 Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I.
- 1914 The first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio. It had red and green light.
- 1930 U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, was born.
- 1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and for illegally leaving South Africa.
- 1963 The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in Moscow.
- 2019 American writer Toni Morrison, who earned a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for novels that examine the Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community, died at age 88.
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