August 3rd 1923

V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President

August 4th 1753

George Washington becomes a master mason

August 5th 1974

Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways

August 6th 1990

President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan

August 7th 1978

Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI

August 8th 1988

Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war

August 9th 1992

25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain

August 10th 1944

World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.

August 11th 1999

Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2minutes 23seconds)

August 12th 1964

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.

August 13th 1961

Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

August 14th 1947

Pakistan gains independence from Britain

August 15th 1965

The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

August 16th 1991

Longest salami measuring 68’9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz made in Flekkefjord, Norway

August 17th 1953

Riots in East Germany for reunification

August 18th 1980

Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds

August 19th 1981

Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa

August 20th 1969

150,000 attend Newport ’69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear

August 21st 1633

Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “abjure, curse, and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views

August 22nd 1981

John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon

August 23rd 1938

Marineland the 1st aquarium opens in Florida

August 24th 1950

Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations

August 25th 1989

Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.

August 26th 1498

Toothbrush invented

August 27th 1693

1st woman’s magazine “Ladies’ Mercury” published (London)

August 28th 1997

TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant

August 29th 1996

Superman’s Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900\

August 30th 1975

Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman

August 31st 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.