NY Yella Cake -100:  August 3, 1922

The Italian Fascists are threatening to move 14,000 squadristi into Rome with "solid arguments" against the general strike which the Communists called in protest of previous Fascist violence. Someone shoots at the mayor's car. Companies whose workers are among the strikers are politely requested by the Fascists to fire them and replace them with... Fascists.

Aug 1 -100: Yella Cake readers got first peak at Mussolini-brand nationalism pulling Facta's and Victor Emmanuel III's strings (according to 21st century "American experience" of WWII authorities).

4 August 2020:

2020 Beirut explosion

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded and detonated, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 kilotons of TNT) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by the Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus.

ASEAN 55th anniversary, 1967 - 2022

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"I think every woman should have a blowtorch."
― Julia Child (died this day, August 13, 2004) pic.twitter.com/iI2YUunKb9

— MacCocktail (@MacCocktail) August 13, 2022

OTD in 1968 Soviet Russia sent a 200,000 strong mechanized humanitarian aid division on holiday to save Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring.

We said we were protecting them from Nazis. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today... pic.twitter.com/seVCJqnqv6

— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) August 20, 2022

Kishida scraps trip to Africa, Middle East after testing positive

Kishida received his fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot on Aug. 12.

oh? What's the "live with it" productivity positivity rate of JAPAN this month? South Korea? Taiwan?