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August 1, 2015

On This Date: August 2015

AUGUST 1, 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait. Canada sends a naval task group.
AUGUST 2, 1914
Germany invades Luxembourg, has mobilized 1.5 million men.
AUGUST 3, 2005
Canada’s last surviving First World War veteran, Ernest “Smokey” Smith, VC, dies.

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