August 7, 1987 The presidents of five Central American nations, meeting in Guatemala City, sign an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region.

August 8, 1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign his office at 12pm, August 9, following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.

August 9, 1945 The 10,000-lb plutonium bomb, Fat Man, is dropped over Nagasaki after the primary objective of Kokura is passed due t