August

August is the eighth month of the year having 31 days. Name comes from the Latin (mensis) Augustus, the month of Augustus Caesar. August's birthstone is peridot and its flower is gladiolus.

1

Discovery Day in Trinidad, Tobogo
Emancipation Day in Granada
Freedom Day in Guyana
National Day in Switzerland
National Holidays (5 days) in El Salvador
Parent's Day in Zaire
Founding of Asuncion in Paraguay
The Concert for Bangladesh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971

2

Our Lady of Los Angeles in Costa Rica

3

Columbus sets sail for Cathay, 1492
USS Nautilus crosses under North Pole, 1958
Independence Day in Jamaica, Niger
Memorial Day of Archbishop Makarios in Cyprus
Massacre du Pidjiguiti in Buinea-bissau

4

Axe murder of Andrew and Abbey Borden, 1892
Bombing of N. Vietnam begins, 1964
Britain declares war on Germany starting World War I, 1914
Freedom Day in Guyana
John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966

5

Neil Armstrong born

6

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945
Caricom in Barbados
Cy Young pitches first game, 1890
Bank Holiday in Australia, British Columbia, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Ontario
Emancipation Day in Bahamas
Independence Day in Bolivia

7

Battle of Boyaca in Colombia

8

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, 1945
Montenegro declares war on Germany, 1914
Richard Nixon resigns the U.S. presidency, 1974
The Great Train Robbery -- $7,368,000, 1963

9

Helter Skelter... the Charles Manson murders take place, 1969
Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae, 480 BC
US-Canadian border defined in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
National Day in Singapore

10

Independence Day in Ecuador
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947
Chicago incorporated as a village of 300 people, 1833
US and Panama agree to transfer the canal in the year 2000, 1977

11

Dog days end
France Ends War in Indochina, 1954
Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
Heroes' Day (2 days) in Zimbabwe
Independence Day in Chad
King Hussein's Accession to the Throne in Jordan

12

First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
Last U.S. ground troops leave Vietnam, 1972
Queen's Birthday in Thailand

13

Berlin wall erected, 1961
Li'l Abner debuts, 1934
Women's Day in Tunisia
Proclamation of Independence in Central African Republic
Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951

14

First Unix-based mallet created, 1954
IBM PC announced, 1981
Waddi Dhahab in Morocco
Independence Day in Pakistan
Victory over Japan Day, 1945
Social Security begins in U.S., 1935

15

Gandhi's movement obtains independence for Pakistan and India, 1947
Hurricane hits Plymouth Plantation, 1635
Independence Day in India
Liberation Day in South Korea
National Day in Congo
Founding of Ascuncion in Paraguay
Santa Maria in Malta
Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey
The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965
Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969

16

Bennington Battle Day in Vermont
Roller Coaster patented, 1898
Independence Days (3 days) in Gabon
Restoration Day in Dominican Republic

17

First public bath opened in N.Y., 1891
Independence Day in Indonesia
Anniversary of the Death of General San Martin in Argentina

18

Anti-Cigarette League of America formed

19

Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
Gail Borden patents condensed milk, 1856
Independence Day in Afghanistan

20

Constitution Day in Hungary

21

None at this time.

22

CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565

23

DEC founded, 1957
Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania

24

"Alice's Restaurant" premieres in New York and Los Angeles, 1969
-126.9 F at Vostok, Antarctica, 1960
British troops burn Washington, 1814
National Flag Day in Liberia

25

Gen. DeGaulle leads French forces into Paris, 1944
Constitution Day in Paragual
Independence Day in Uruguay

26

United States women get the vote, 1920
Susan B. Anthony Day in Massachusetts
Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970
Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970

27

Liberation Day in Hong Kong
Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, 1883
"Tarzan of the Apes" published, 1912

28

Martin Luther King, Jr. leads civil rights rally and give "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, 1963
Heroes Day in Philippines

29

Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; Nova Cygni 1975

30

75 cents a pound tariff set on opium, 1842
Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen, 1960
St. Rose of Lima in Peru
Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected, 1963
Victory Day in Turkey
Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana

31

269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR, 1983
Mary Anne Nichols becomes Jack the Ripper's first victim, 1888
Non-aggression pact signed by USSR and Afghanistan, 1926
Independence Day in Trinidad, Tobago
National Day in Malaysia
Pashtoonian Day in Afghanistan

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