Events in History
Statue of Liberty
Aug 5 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
- Aug 7 Germany annexes Angra Pequena / German South West-Africa (modern Namibia)
1st Photograph of a Tornado
Aug 28 First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
Birthdays in History
- Aug 2 Rómulo Gallegos, 48th President of Venezuela (1948), born in Caracas, Venezuela (d. 1969)
- Aug 8 Sara Teasdale, American poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
- Aug 10 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
- Aug 12 Frank Arthur Swinnerton, English novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)
- Aug 16 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
- Aug 16 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American inventor and sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo), born in Luxembourg (d. 1967)
- Aug 23 Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1927-1932), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1937)
- Aug 26 Earl Derr Biggers, American author ("Charlie Chan" detective series), born in Warren, Ohio (d. 1933)
- Aug 27 Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), born in Revel, France (d. 1966)
Peter Fraser
Aug 28 Peter Fraser, British-born New Zealand statesman and 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940-49), born in Hill of Fearn, Scotland (d. 1950)
- Aug 29 Ehm Welk [Thomas Trimm], German writer, born in Biesenbrow, Brandenburg (d. 1966)
- Aug 30 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926), born in Fleräng, Valbo, Gävleborg, Sweden (d. 1971)
- Aug 31 George Al Sarton, Belgian-American chemist and historian, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1956)
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