Events in History
- Aug 3 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
- Aug 8 Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
- Aug 10 Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria cedes territory
- Aug 13 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England
A Royal Fantasy!
Aug 13 Otto Witte, German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania
- Aug 16 Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
- Aug 19 Frenchman Adolphe Célestin Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
- Aug 20 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
- Aug 20 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
- Aug 27 Lt Pyotr Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
- Aug 27 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper
Peace Palace Opens
Aug 28 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration [1]
Birthdays in History
- Aug 4 Robert Hayden, African-American poet (Those Winter Sundays), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1980)
- Aug 8 Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter, and sculptor (stained glass works), born in Grave, Netherlands (d. 1995)
- Aug 8 Robert Stafford, American politician (Sen-R-VT, 1971-88), born in Rutland, Vermont (d. 2006)
- Aug 9 Herman Talmadge, American politician (70th Governor of Georgia), born in McRae, Georgia (d. 2002)
- Aug 11 Angus Wilson, English novelist and short story writer ("Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"; "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot"), born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England (d. 1991)
- Aug 12 Richard Bare, American TV and film director (Green Acres), born in Turlock, California (d. 2015)
- Aug 13 Albert Oram, Baron Oram, British Labour politician, born in Winchester, England (d. 1999)
- Aug 13 Makarios III [Michail Moeskos], Greek Cypriot clergyman (Archbishop of Cyprus, 1950-77), and politician (1st President of Cyprus, 1966-74), born in Panayia, Paphos< British Cyprus (d. 1977)
Menachem Begin (1913-1992)
Aug 16 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Brest, Belarus, Russian Empire
- Aug 17 Mark Felt, American FBI official and Watergate secret informant known as "Deep Throat", born in Twin Falls, Idaho (d. 2008)
- Aug 19 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
- Aug 19 Walter B. Jones Snr., American politician (Rep-D-North Carolina 1966-92), born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1992)
- Aug 21 Victor Rosow, Russian dramatist, born in Yaroslavl (d. 2004)
- Aug 22 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, born in Marina di Pisa, Italy (d. 1993)
- Aug 22 Robert Martineau, British bishop of Blackburn (d. 1999)
- Aug 25 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
- Aug 27 Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID, born in Ashton Upon Mersey, England (d. 1995)
- Aug 27 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, born in Oban, Scotland (d. 1994)
- Aug 28 John Terence Reese, British bridge master, born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 1996)
- Aug 28 Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist essayist and dramatist, born in Thamesville, Ontario (d. 1995)
- Aug 30 Thomas F. Torrance, Scottish Protestant theologist, born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China (d. 2007)
- Aug 31 Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank Observatory, born in Oldland Common, Bristol (d. 2012)
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