August 01:
1291: The Swiss Confederation was formed.
1790: First U.S. census completed. Populatin was 4 million in 13 states.
1819: Herman Melville born.
1834: An emancipation bill outlawed slavery throughout the British Empire.
1876: Colorado admitted to the union as 38th state.
1907: The forerunner of the US Air Force was established by the Army as an aeronautical division.
1914: Germany declared war on Russia.
1936: Olympic Games opened in Berlin. Adof Hitler presided.
1957: The United States and Canada reached an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1966: Twenty-five year old Charles Joseph Whitman shot and killed 15 peoplefrom the Tower at the University of Texas before he was killed by police.
2001: Novelist and thinker extraordinaire, Robert H. Rimmer, dies at age 84. He was the author of The Harrad Experiment, Rebellion of Yale Marratt, and Thursday, My Love, among other thought-provoking books.
August 02
1876: Wild Bill Hickok was shot from behind while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota by Jack McCall. McCall was later hanged. Hickok was holding what has become known as the "Deadman's Hand," aces and eights.
1921: Opera star Enrico Caruso died in Naples, Italy.
1923: Warren G. Harding, 29th President, died in San Francisco.
1924: James Baldwin born.
1943: John Kennedy rescued fellow crew members of PT 109.
1983: The US House of Representtives voted to designate the third Monday in January as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
August 03
1492: Christopher Columbus set sail from Pabs, Spain, in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
1914: Germany declared was on France.
1920: P.D. James born.
1924: Leon Uris born.
1943: General George Patton slapped a soldier at an army hospitalfor cowardice.
1949: The National Basketball Asociation is formed by merger of the Basketball Association of American and the National Basketball League.
1958: The nuclear-powered sub Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.
1981: US air traffic controllers go on strike.
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1881: First issue of Benjamin Tucker's journal Liberty appears. It was published from August 1881 to April, 1908.
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1833: Robert Ingersoll born in Dresden, New York.
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1877: At 12:30 pm the Colorado Central steamed into Georgetown, Colorado for the first time.
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1920: Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, is ratified.
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55 BC: Julius Caesar's forces invade Britain.
1939: The first televised major league baseball games were shown on experimental station W2XBS-a double header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1974: Charles Lindbergh dies at his home in Hawaii at age 72.
August 27
1859: Colonel Edwin L. Drake drills the first successful oil well in the U.S. near Titusville, Pa.
1871: Theodore Dreiser born.
1899: CE Forester born.
1908: Lyndon Baines Johnson born near Stonewall, Texas.
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact signed in Paris. It outlaws war.
1929: Ira Levin born.
August 28
1609: Henry Hudson discovers the Delaware Bay.
1749: German author Wolfgang von Goethe is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1828: Novelist Leo Tolstoy is born near Tula.
1886: The Statute of Liberty is unveiled.
1903: Bruno Bettelheim born.
1922: Radio station WEAF airs the first radio commercial. The ten minutes of air time costs the Queensboro Realty Company $100.
1963: Martin Luther King gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
1968: Police and anti-war demonstrators clash in the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention that nominates Hubert Humphrey.
2007: Art Jones, inventor of the Nautilus fitness machines, dies at age 80.
August 29
1632: John Locke born.
1809: Oliver Wendell Holmes is born in Cambridge, Mass.
1896: Chop Suey invented in New York.
1916: The United States Marine Corps is founded.
1966: The Beatles give their last concert, at Candelstick Park in San Francisco.
August 30
30: Cleopatra VII committed suicide.
1797: Mary Shelley born.
1836: Houston founded.
1862: Union forces are defeated by Confederate forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1963: The Hot Line between Washington D.C. and Moscow goes into operation.
1967: The U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as Justice of the Supreme Court.
August 31
1688: John Bunyon, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, dies in London.
1870: Maria Montessori born.
1881: Newport, Rhode Island, hosts the first US tennis championships.
1887: Thomas A. Edison receives a patent for his kinetoscope, which made moving pictures.
1888: The body of Mary Ann Nicholls is found in London's East End. She is the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
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