Events in History
Event of Interest
Aug 18 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
William Howard Taft
- Aug 24 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
- Aug 26 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
- Aug 29 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
- Aug 29 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
- Aug 30 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott
Birthdays in History
- Aug 1 Nigel Henderson, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1993)
- Aug 2 Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], British accountant (Coopers & Lybrand), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1995)
- Aug 4 Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape gardener, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1994)
- Aug 4 Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (co-founded category theory), born in Taftville, Connecticut (d. 2005)
- Aug 9 John Baur, American museum director and author (American Paintings in 19th Century), born in Woodbridge, Connecticut (d. 1987)
- Aug 9 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat, born in Potsdam, Germany (d. 1944)
- Aug 10 George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980- )
- Aug 10 Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
- Aug 10 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
- Aug 11 Hugo Buchthal, art historian
- Aug 11 Jean Lancaster, director (WRNS)
- Aug 12 Maurice Heath, air marshal
- Aug 12 Richard Bare, American director
- Aug 15 Raymond O'Malley, English teacher
- Aug 19 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (Ashes and Diamonds), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1983)
- Aug 21 C. Dillon Douglas, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 2003)
- Aug 21 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician, born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (d. 1992)
- Aug 22 Stojan Daskalov, Bulgarian writer (A Farm), born in Liljac, Vraca, Bulgaria (d. 1985)
- Aug 26 Frank Gasparro, US chief engraver (1965-81), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 27 Sidney R. Yates, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000)
- Aug 29 Roy Reuther, American labor leader, born in Wheeling, West Virginia (d. 1968)
- Aug 30 Barry Appleby, British cartoonist (The Gambols), born in Birmingham (d. 1996)
- Aug 31 Marie-Louise Grog-Carven, French fashion designer (Ma Griffe perfume), born in Châtellerault, Poitou-Charentes (d. 2015)