Events in History
Event of Interest
Aug 2 Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran
- Aug 2 TODAY/PC born today
- Aug 4 Reports of probable OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreement on output quotas sends oil prices higher
- Aug 5 It's revealed Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf
- Aug 5 US Senate votes for SDI-project ("Star Wars")
- Aug 6 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
- Aug 8 Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcing the establishment of the MQM political movement.
- Aug 10 Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
- Aug 12 Iran fires missile at refinery near Baghdad; Iraq raids Iranian terminal at Sirri Island severely disrupting Iranian exports
- Aug 13 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
Event of Interest
Aug 14 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
Event of Interest
Aug 15 US President Ronald Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
- Aug 16 Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
- Aug 17 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market, Seattle
- Aug 18 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
- Aug 18 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
- Aug 18 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
- Aug 19 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
- Aug 20 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
- Aug 20 Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma
- Aug 21 Lake Nyos volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases a poisonous gas cloud of carbon dioxide, killing 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock
- Aug 21 Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
- Aug 22 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
- Aug 26 Robert Chambers, the "Preppie Killer" murders Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, afterwards claimed "rough sex" as motive
- Aug 27 Protests erupt in Soweto, South Africa, against evictions carried out after an 11 week rent boycott
- Aug 28 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
- Aug 28 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
- Aug 29 Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
- Aug 29 Moroccan King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
- Aug 30 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
- Aug 31 Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
- Aug 31 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
Birthdays in History
Sebastian Kurz (36 years old)
Aug 27 Austrian politician, Austrian Chancellor (201709), Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), born in Vienna, Austria
- Aug 28 Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier held captive in Palestine, born in Nahariya, Israel
Deaths in History
- Aug 1 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
- Aug 1 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
- Aug 2 Roy Marcus Cohn, American lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies of AIDS at 59
- Aug 3 Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, dies at 83
- Aug 3 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN) and editor (The Truth), dies at 87
- Aug 6 Emilio Fernandez, Mexican director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
- Aug 6 Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87
- Aug 6 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
- Aug 9 Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C'ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), dies at 77
- Aug 16 Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
- Aug 19 Jaap [Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus] Burger, Dutch politician and chairman (PvdA), dies at 81
- Aug 20 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
- Aug 26 Jennifer Levin, American murder victim, strangled by Robert Chambers in New York City's Central Park aged 18
- Aug 31 Goffredo Parise, Italian writer (Il padrone), dies at 56
- Aug 31 Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (known for Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae), dies at 88
- Aug 31 Urho Kekkonen, 8th President of Finland (1956-81), dies at 85
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