Events in History
- Aug 1 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
- Aug 1 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
- Aug 1 CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Aug 2 104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
- Aug 2 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
- Aug 3 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River
- Aug 3 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
- Aug 3 Poland and West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
- Aug 8 As a result of rainfall from Typhoon Nina, the Banqiao Dam in China fails, causing the collapse of almost 6 million buildings and 229,000 deaths
- Aug 9 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consecutive base without being caught
- Aug 10 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
- Aug 11 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
- Aug 11 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
- Aug 13 Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed
Coup d'état
Aug 14 -15] Pakistani military coup against Bangladeshi President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- Aug 14 Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
- Aug 15 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
- Aug 15 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
- Aug 15 Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
- Aug 16 Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
- Aug 20 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
- Aug 20 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
- Aug 21 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
- Aug 21 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
- Aug 21 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
- Aug 23 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
- Aug 23 Communists take over Laos
- Aug 23 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
- Aug 23 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
- Aug 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Aug 24 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
- Aug 24 Papadopoulos, Pattakos and Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
- Aug 24 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
- Aug 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
- Aug 30 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Aug 15 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding father of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76), assassinated in a military coup by a group of junior army officers at 53
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Haile Selassie
Aug 27 Haile Selassie [Ras Tafari Makonnen], Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), dies of suspected assassination by strangulation at 83
Haile Selassie