Events in History
- Aug 8 W.K. Kellogg invents corn flakes cereal
Historic Invention
Aug 9 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine
- Aug 12 Hawaii is formally annexed to US
Spain Declares War Against the United States
Aug 12 Peace protocol ends Spanish–American War, signed
Victory in Battle
Aug 13 US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish–American War
Birthdays in History
- Aug 3 Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper, born in Mittelbiberach, Germany (d. 1996)
- Aug 8 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), born in Algiers, French Algeria (d. 1982)
- Aug 9 David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal)
- Aug 11 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist
- Aug 15 Lillian Carter, US President Jimmy Carter's (1977-1981) mom, born in Richland, Georgia (d. 1983)
- Aug 15 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (The Beetle), born in Zhmerynka, Ukraine (d. 1966)
- Aug 17 Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
- Aug 20 Gerard Kraus, Dutch psychiatrist and director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands) (d. 1956)
- Aug 20 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1968)
- Aug 20 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author (The Emigrants) and historian, born in Moshultamåla, Sweden (d. 1973)
- Aug 24 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and physician (Nobel 1974), born in Longlier, Belgium (d. 1983)
- Aug 24 Malcolm Cowley, American author (Flowering of New England), born in Belsano, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
- Aug 25 Helmut Hasse, German mathematician, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1979)
- Aug 26 Peggy Guggenheim, American art patron & collector, born in NYC, New York (d. 1979)
- Aug 28 Ludwig Turek, German writer, born in Stendal, Germany (d. 1975)
Deaths in History
- Aug 8 Eugène Boudin, French painter (beach scenes), dies at 74
- Aug 9 Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84
- Aug 27 John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law) dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49
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