Events in History
Event of Interest
Aug 1 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
- Aug 4 Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun flees to Vienna after the Hungarian Soviet Republic is overthrown by the Romanian Army
Event of Interest
Aug 4 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor Auguste Rodin
- Aug 6 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
- Aug 6 Romanian forces bring down Hungarian Soviet Republic in Budapest
- Aug 8 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan's independence
- Aug 10 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
- Aug 11 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
- Aug 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois
- Aug 19 After nearly 100 years of British control, Afghanistan declares itself independent
- Aug 25 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
- Aug 28 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
- Aug 30 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin
- Aug 31 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
- Aug 31 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
- Aug 31 Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
Birthdays in History
- Aug 1 Stanley Middleton, British novelist (Holiday, Three Wise Men), born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 2009)
- Aug 2 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, born in London (d. 1997)
- Aug 7 John Hogan, American chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), born in Lowes, Kentucky (d. 2012)
- Aug 8 Dino De Laurentiis, producer (King Kong), born in Torre Annunziata, Italy
- Aug 9 Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (PVDA, 1973-77), born in Hilversum, Netherlands (d. 1987)
- Aug 10 Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
- Aug 12 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright
- Aug 12 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
- Aug 13 Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (Cathedral of Tomorrow), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 2007)
- Aug 18 Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
Aug 19 American publisher of Forbes Magazine, born in Brooklyn, New York
George Wallace (1919-1998)
Aug 25 American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama
- Aug 27 John Donkin Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington, British politician (Labour Party), born in Haswell, County Durham, England (d. 2003)
- Aug 28 Ernest Harold Martin [Markowitz], American Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- Aug 30 Maurice R. Hilleman, American microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, born in Miles City, Montana (d. 2005)
- Aug 31 Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author, born in Gujranwala, Pakistan (d. 2005)
Deaths in History
- Aug 9 Ernst Haeckel, German biologist (Causes of Evolution) and philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
Aug 11 Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83
- Aug 18 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (Seagram Distilleries), dies at 78
Louis Botha (1862-1919)
Aug 27 Boer general and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (1910-19), dies at 56
- Aug 30 Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies at 39
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