Events in History
- Aug 2 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
- Aug 2 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
- Aug 14 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge demonstrates wireless telegraphy (radio) using Morse code at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University
- Aug 16 Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
- Aug 17 Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
Event of Interest
Aug 22 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal
- Aug 25 -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
- Aug 25 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
- Aug 26 Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
- Aug 27 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
- Aug 30 British explorer Frederick Lugard begins his expedition to Niger
- Aug 31 The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act passed by Richard Seddon’s Liberal government, making New Zealand the first country in the world to outlaw strikes in favour of compulsory arbitration
Birthdays in History
- Aug 3 Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Aug 10 V.V. [Varahagiri Venkata] Giri, Fourth President of India (1969-74), born in Berhampur, British India (d. 1980)
- Aug 13 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher and director, born in Lugano, Switzerland (d. 1971)
- Aug 16 George Meany, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO), born in NYC, New York (d. 1980)
- Aug 17 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian, poet and author (Jorden), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1965)
- Aug 22 Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II), born in Hadjikend, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
- Aug 23 James La Guma, South African political activist and trade unionist, born in Cape Town (d. 1961)
- Aug 28 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter and sculptor (Iron Tower) (d. 1986)
- Aug 29 E. Franklin Frazier, American sociologist and author (The Negro Family in the United States), born in Baltimore (d. 1962)
- Aug 31 Albert Facey, Australian writer (A Fortunate Life), born in Maidstone, Victoria, Australia (d. 1982)
Deaths in History
- Aug 3 George Inness, American landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
- Aug 16 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
- Aug 17 Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar), dies at 70
- Aug 26 PPH van Ham, Dutch general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
- Aug 26 Te Wherowhero Tāwhia, Second Māori King and leader of the Waikato tribes in New Zealand, dies at 71 or 72
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