The Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration held on the Austrian-Hungarian border.
August 19–21 ndash In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11,000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.
All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.
Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.
