General events not linked to a date
National Catfish Month (US)
National Panini Month (US)
National Peach Month (US)
National Sandwich Month (US)
National Mustard Day is the First Saturday of August
1914 Louis Botha & Jan Smuts lead South Africa into the war in support of Great Britain against Germany
1914 Digging at the big hole in Kimberley ends, leaving a hole 1.6km in circumference with 14 504 carats of diamonds having been found
1 August
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day (US)
1819 birth Herman Melville writer of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd.
1914 Germany and France Declare War
1936 Berlin Olympics Opens
1936 The SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) was formed by an Act of Parliament
1966 University Of Texas Shootings
1981 MTV Debuts
1994 Michael Jackson Marries Lisa Marie Presley
2 August
National Ice-Cream Sandwich Day (US)
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes Germany’s Fuhrer
1943 PT-109 Commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy Sunk
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Attack On US Destroyer Maddox
1990 Iraq Invades Kuwait
3 August
National Watermelon Day (US)
Picnic Day (AUS)
1492 Columbus Set Sail. Extract from his journals and some homeschool resources!
1914 Germany and France Declare War
1981 US Air Traffic Controllers Strike
4 August
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day (US)
1782 The 700 ton East India merchant ship “the Grosvenor” runs aground. Write-up about Captain John Coxon and the Grosvenor
1892 The parents of Lizzie Borden found murdered. 9 facts I didn’t know about her
1901 Louis Armstrong’s Birthday. Lance Armstrong House to visit in Nee York! Extensive resources from the Smithsonian for us homeschoolers
1902 Cape Town’s time guns having been moved to Signal Hill, are fired there for the first time. The Lion Battery remains the property of the South African Navy. Big Bang behind the noon guns in CT
1941 Nazi Troops Within 50 miles of Kiev. A post about the ending of the Battle of Kiev and a YouTube video of Kiev
1944 Anne Frank Captured By Germans
1961 Barack Obama’s Birthday. 50 facts I didn’t know about him
1989 The Savings and Loan Crisis (US)
5 August
National Waffle Day (US)
National Oyster Day (US)
1930 Neil Armstrong’s Birthday
6 August
National Root Beer Float Day (US)
1666 The Treaty of The Hague is signed whereby the Dutch Republic sells New Holland (Brazil) for 63 tonnes of gold to Portugal
– Moneyweek narrated this historic event
https://moneyweek.com/332301/6-august-1661-treaty-of-the-hague-cedes-dutch-brazil-to-portugal/
1809 – 1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Birthday
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
1881 – 1955 Alexander Fleming’s Birthday
1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair
– and his death was such torturous https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/26/thomas-edison-the-electric-chair-and-a-botched-execution-a-death-penalty-primer/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8cd7e3ba96fb
– a bit more graphic telling of this execution
– a bit more history to get nauseated by…
http://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kemmler-william.htm
1911 – 1989 Lucille Ball born
1926 Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle Swims English Channel
1928 – 1987 Andy Warhol’s birthday
1934 Dust Bowl Drought Continues In Mid West
1945 Nuclear bomb Hiroshima
– Ebola Gay, the plane that carried this bomb, and it’s crew
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24269/crew-enola-gay-dropping-atomic-bomb
– some more history
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/boeing-b-29-superfortress-enola-gay
1957 “American Bandstand” makes its network debut on ABC
1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom
1965 Voting Rights Act Signed Into Law
– the impact of this act signed
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/6/8163229/voting-rights-act-1965
1965 Beatles Release the Album “Help!” In UK
1973 Fulgencio Batista died, born 1901
1975 Dutch Elm Disease Kills 3 million trees in Britain. Learning from history is evident through the ample research online
1983 At&T Broken Up Lessons learned and still implemented 30 years later
1991 Tim Berners-Lee launches the world wide web
– the start of a new era
1997 Microsoft Buys Stake in Apple Computers, referred to as the worst deal ever
2015 Louise Stuggs died, born 1923
7 August
National Lighthouse Day (SA)
National IPA Day (US)
Raspberries and Cream Day (US)
International Beer Day
1461 Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
1741 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden
1933 Author Jerry Pournelle, first writer to write a novel on a wordprosessor
– First author to write a novel on a word processor died 8 September 2017
1933 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1947 Kon-Tiki Expedition Completes Trip across the Pacific Ocean
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passed
1987 Lynn Cox swam the Bering Straight. Interview with her
1990 Operation Desert Shield begins – US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
1998 US Embassies Bombed Kenya
2007 Barry Bonds 756th Home Run
2009 Tik Tok” single released by Kesha (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
8 August
National Frozen Custard Day (US)
National Zucchini Day (US)
1963 “The Great Train Robbery” UK
1974 Richard Nixon Announces his resignation following the Watergate Scandal During a nationally televised broadcast
1976 First Legionnaire’s Disease Harrisburg, Philadelphia
1988 The Burmese 8888 Uprising
9 August
International Art Appreciation Day
National woman’s day (SA)
National Rice Pudding Day (US)
1925 Ku Klux Klan Mass Meeting Washington 50,000 marchers
1936 Jesse Owens wins fourth gold medal Berlin Olympics
1945 Atom Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki
1956 First Woman’s March in Pretoria
1969 Sharon Tate Found Murdered ( Charles Manson )
10 August
National S’Mores Day (US)
Lazy Day (US)
National Banana Split Day (US)
1874 Herbert Hoover
1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain Formed
1927 Construction began on Mt Rushmore
1945 Truman Announces Japanese Surrender
1954 Construction on the St. Lawrence Seaway began at Massena, New York.
1977 The ” Son Of Sam ” Serial killer David Berkowitz Arrested
1990 Magellan Space Craft Arrives At The Planet Venus
11 August
Play in the Sand Day. (US) Physics of sand castles and Sand Castle Central!
National Panini Day (US)
National Raspberry Tart Day (US)
1929 Babe Ruth first player in the history of baseball to hit 500 home runs
1965 Race riots Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California
1991 911 Emergency Number pioneered in Schaumburg. The chief retired after 42 years in service
1992 Mall of America Opens
12 August
National Julienne Fries Day (US)
1955 Minimum Hourly Wage Raised To $1.00 Per Hour
1964 South Africa Barred from the Olympic Games
1981 IBM Releases It’s First Personal Computer
1990 Tyrannosaurus Rex / Sue Discovered South Dakota
13 August
International Left-Handed Day! Famous left handed people
National Filet Mignon Day (US)
1860 Annie Oakley’s Birthday 10 things you didn’t know about her
1961 East Germany Border Closed To West Germany
1966 China has announced It’s Cultural Revolution
2006 Tokyo Power Blackout
2011 Stages Collapses at Indiana State Fair
14 August
National Creamsicle Day (US)
1935 Social Security Bill Signed Into Law Providing Unemployment Benefit
1945 Truman Announces Japanese Surrender
1947 India and Pakistan Gain Independence
2003 North America Power Outage New York to Canada
15 August
Joke Day (US)
Roller Coaster Day (US)
National Lemon Meringue Pie Day (US)
1898 First Roller Coaster patented
1912 Julia Child’s Birthday
1914 Panama Canal Opens
1965 Beatles Live Concert at Shea Stadium
1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots
1969 Woodstock Music Festival
1998 Omagh Bombing Northern Ireland
16 August
National Rum Day (US)
National Bratwurst Day (US)
1908 Mohandas ‘Mohatma’ Ghandi (a Hindu) leads 3000 Muslims, Hindus and Christians to burn their passes in the courtyard of the Hamidia Mosque in Newtown, Johannesburg
1977 Elvis Presley Dies Of Heart Attack
2002 Dresden, Germany Flooding
17 August
National Vanilla Custard Day (US)
1786 Davy Crockett (Died 1836)
1962 East German Border Guards Kill Peter Fechter
1969 Hurricane Camille Make Landfall Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 45 photos from that storm
1969 Woodstock Music Festival Ends
1998 President Clinton acknowledged he had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky
18 August
Bad Poetry Day (US) What is bad poetry?
National Ice Cream Pie Day (US)
1744 Meriwether Lewis (Died 1809)
1920 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Ratified
1931 Yangtze River Floods causing the death of 3.7 million people directly and indirectly
1937 Toyota Motor Company Founded
2006 60hr work week at Apple iPod plant for $60 per month
19 August
Potato Day (origin?)
National Soft-Serve Ice Cream Day (US)
*National Hot & Spicy Food Day (US)
1867 Wilbur Wright Born
1944 Paris is Liberated by the Allies
1953 Iran Military Coup Supported By United States
1958 Packard Cars End Production
1987 Hungerford, UK Killing Spree by Michael Ryan
20 August
*National ‘ Bacon Lovers ‘ Day (US)
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day (US)
1920 First Commercial Radio Station Detroit, Michigan
1940 Winston Churchill makes the speech “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.“
1968 “Prague Spring”, Czechoslovakia Soviet troops crush protests and restore order.
1989 Marchioness Disaster River Thames London
21 August
National Sweet Tea Day (US)
1911 The Mona Lisa Stolen in France
1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state in the United States. A YouTube video, original footage
2006 Saddam Hussein crimes against humanity trial Begins
22 August
National Pecan Torte Day (US)
*National “Eat a Peach” Day (US)
1902 Cadillac Started In Detroit
1941 Germany Attacks Leningrad
1992 Hurricane Andrew Strikes Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana
2003 Alabama chief justice, Roy Moore, is suspended
23 August
National Cuban Sandwich Day (US)
National Spongecake Day (US)
1905 New Orleans Yellow Fever Kills Hundreds
1999 West Nile virus Continues It’s Spread Around The Country
24 August
National Peach Pie Day (US)
79AD Mount Vesuvius Erupted
1869 Waffle Iron Patented
1875 First Swimmer crossed the English Channel
1948 Berlin Airlift Increases Aircraft Numbers
1954 Communist Party Outlawed United States
1985 Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster
1996 Hurricane Dolly Strikes Mexico
25 August
National Banana Split Day (US)
National Whiskey Sour Day (US)
1944 Paris Liberated
1950 President Harry S. Truman Places Railroads Under Army Control
1975 Bruce Springsteen album “Born to Run” Released
2005 Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall In Florida 4 days before striking New Orleans
26 August
National Dog Day (US)
Women’s Vote Day / Women’s Equality Day (origin?)
National Cherry Popsicle Day (US)
1920 The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted
1932 Temporary Halt Called On Home Foreclosures
1957 Ford Begins Production of Edsel Automobiles. It failed but we learned from it
27 August
National Pots de Creme Day (US)
National Burger Day (US)
1900 The British defeat the Boer army (commanded by Louis Botha) at Bergendal
1910 Mother Theresa’s Birthday
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.Peace begins with a smile..Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
1942 Japanes troops land at Guadalcanal for what would become known as the Battle of Guadalcanal
- Ex-soldier recalls Guadalcanal as ‘island of death’
- Historyl.com gives this summary of the Battle of Guadalcanal
- Business Insider shares 7 things you didn’t know about one of the toughest Pacific battles during WWII
1955 Guinness Book of World Records Published For The First Time
1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten Murdered.
1989 Sky TV Launched UK
28 August
National Cherry Turnovers Day (US)
1937 Japanese Bomb Shanghai
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. Gives “I Have A Dream Speech”
1968 10s Of Thousands Anti-Vietnam War Protestors Chicago
1996 Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce
29 August
National Chop Suey (US)
1949 Russian Troops Mass On The Border Yugoslavia
1949 The Soviet Union test their first atomic bomb
1966 The Beatles play their final US Concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco
2005 Hurricane Katrina Strikes New Orleans
30 August
National Melted Marshmallow Day (US)
30BC Cleopatra committed suicide day
1935 Wealth Tax Act Passed in the United States
1959 First Mini goes on sale in Britain for £497. Now it sells for £15000
1963 Direct Line Set Up Between Moscow and Washington to prevent the possibility of an accidental war
1989 Leona Helmsley convicted and sentenced
31 August
National Trail Mix Day (US)
1888 Jack the Ripper Kills His First Victim
1954 Hurricane Carol Strikes Long Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island
1997 Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed are killed in a car crash in Paris
2005 Curfew Placed On New Orleans
SOURCES
- Enchanted Learning
- Scholastic
- Crayola
- Days of the Year
- The Crafty Crow
- Cute Calendar
- Foodimentary
- The People History
- Rob Marsh’s Africa Crime Mysteries
- SAHO South African History Online
- Kate from America Comes Alive
- Brittanica
- Se7en’s Almanac
- Worldwide Weird Holidays
- A Year of Holidays
- https://likewike.com/category/history-of-the-day/
- And growin…
