Events in History
- Aug 3 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
- Aug 3 Sky Tower opens in Auckland, New Zealand, at 328 metres (1,076 ft) the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere
- Aug 4 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
- Aug 4 In Colombia, international oil company Occidental Petroleum declare force majeure on all oil exports from the Cano Limon field after a series of attacks knocked out a major oil pipeline
- Aug 5 Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
- Aug 5 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
- Aug 5 Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
- Aug 6 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
- Aug 7 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
- Aug 7 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
- Aug 8 The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
- Aug 9 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
- Aug 11 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
Event of Interest
Aug 14 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death by Oklahoma Court of Appeals
- Aug 14 Soyuz TM-25 lands
- Aug 15 Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
- Aug 19 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
- Aug 20 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- Aug 21 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
- Aug 21 US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
- Aug 24 Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
- Aug 25 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
- Aug 26 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed
- Aug 28 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
- Aug 29 At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
Event of Interest
Aug 31 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
- Aug 31 Last episode of Rolanda airs
Weddings in History
Salman Rushdie
Aug 28 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West
Deaths in History
- Aug 1 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
Aug 2 American writer (Naked Lunch, The Nova Trilogy) and visual artist, dies of a heart attack at 83
- Aug 3 Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian politician (Senator for Repentigny, Quebec, 1976-97), dies at 83
- Aug 4 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (born Feb 21, 1875), dies at 122 years, 164 days
- Aug 5 Clarence M. Kelley, American 2nd Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1973-77), dies at 85
- Aug 5 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61
- Aug 7 Douglas Gray, Scottish record and film producer, dies at 74
- Aug 7 Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109
- Aug 20 Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
- Aug 21 Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies
- Aug 22 Mary Louise Smith, American political organizer, 1st female chair of the Republican party, dies at 82
- Aug 23 Eric Gairy, first Prime Minister of Grenada (1974-79), dies at 75
- Aug 24 Louis Essen, British physicist (time measurement, speed of light determination), dies at 88
- Aug 24 Phillip Vellacott, classical scholar (Penguin Books classical translations), dies at 90
- Aug 25 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
- Aug 25 Robert Pinget, French novelist (The Interrogation) and playwright, dies at 78
Diana Spencer (1961-1997)
Aug 31 English Princess of Wales, dies in car crash in Paris at 36
- Aug 31 Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman, died in a car crash in Paris with Diana, Princess of Wales,at 42
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