Events in History
- Aug 1 EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
- Aug 2 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
- Aug 2 Rubber bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles'
- Aug 3 Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist" premieres in London
- Aug 3 Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
- Aug 3 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try
- Aug 5 Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves" premieres in London
- Aug 5 US Black P. Panther leader Huey Newton freed from jail after two trials ended in hung juries and the district attorney decides against a 4th trial
- Aug 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Aug 6 Italian government of Mariano Rumor resigns
- Aug 7 Shootout at Marin Courthouse in San Rafael, California, kills 4, including the presiding judge
- Aug 9 Peruvian Airlines LANSA Flight 502 explodes killing 101 people including 45 US exchange students
- Aug 10 British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
- Aug 11 Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
- Aug 11 Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh
- Aug 13 Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Aug 14 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
- Aug 14 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
- Aug 17 Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
- Aug 19 The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status
- Aug 20 -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
- Aug 21 The Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) is established with Gerry Fitt as the first leader of the party
- Aug 24 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
- Aug 26 Minister of Home Affairs Robert Porter resigns from the Stormont government (North Ireland parliament)
- Aug 29 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
- Aug 31 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
- Aug 31 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
Birthdays in History
- Aug 2 Kevin Smith, American director (Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks, born in Red bank, New Jersey
- Aug 4 Bret Baier, American political correspondent (Fox News), born in Rumson, New Jersey
- Aug 4 Hakeem Jeffries, American attorney and politician (Rep-D-NY 2013, 1st Black House Minority Leader), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 7 19 kittens - world record for domestic cat litter - born to four-year old Burmese cat Tarawood Antigone in Kingham, Oxfordshire, England (4 were stillborn)
- Aug 12 Anthony Swofford, American marine and novelist (Jarhead), born in Fairfield, California
- Aug 13 Will Clarke, American novelist (The Neon Palm of Madame Melançon), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
- Aug 19 Clare Waight Keller, English fashion designer (first female head of Givenchy), born in Birmingham, England
- Aug 22 Charlie Connelly, English writer (Attention All Shipping), born in London
- Aug 23 Lawrence Frank, American head coach, born in NYC, New York
- Aug 31 Rania Al-Abdullah, Queen consort of Jordan, born in Kuwait City
Weddings in History
Deaths in History
- Aug 1 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
- Aug 7 Harold Haley, American judge, shot dead in courthouse shootout in San Rafael at 67
- Aug 7 James McClain, US African American activist, shot dead
- Aug 7 Jonathan Jackson, US African American activist, shot dead in a shootout at 17
- Aug 7 William Christmas, US African American activist, shot dead
- Aug 10 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, dies at 63
- Aug 19 Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian, dies at 60
- Aug 20 Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
- Aug 22 Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- Aug 30 Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41
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