Historical Events
- Aug 4 Plans for city of Chicago laid out
- Aug 9 Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
- Aug 25 Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins the Belgian Revolution
- Aug 28 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
Famous Birthdays
Franz Joseph I
Aug 18 Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1916)
- Aug 19 Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist who developed the first periodic table of chemical elements independently of Dimitri Mendeleev, born in Varel Oldenburg (d. 1895)
