August 15, 1971: Emirate of Bahrain declares independenceAugust 31, 1971: The old British penny, worth 1/240th, discontinued as decimalisation beginsAugust 22, 1971: Colonel Hugo Banzer leads revolution to overthrow president of BoliviaAugust 2, 1971: Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott's replicates Galileo's experiment on the Moon
