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August 27
August 27, the 239th day of the year, is marked by the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, the 1776 Battle of Long Island, the 1859 Titusville oil well, Carroll's 1900 yellow fever experiment, the 1962 Mariner 2 launch, and Moldova's Independence Day.
August 28
August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, known for the 1963 March on Washington and King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
August 29
August 29, the 241st day of the Gregorian year, is marked by the 1949 Soviet atomic bomb test at Semipalatinsk, the International Day against Nuclear Tests, the 1526 Battle of Mohács, the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, Hurricane Katrina (2005), and births including John Locke and Michael Jackson.
August 3
August 3, day 215 of the Gregorian year: Columbus's 1492 departure, Germany's 1914 declaration of war on France, Niger's 1960 independence, the 2014 Yunnan earthquake, and the 2019 El Paso shooting.
August 30
August 30, the 242nd day of the Gregorian year (243rd in leap years). Known for Cleopatra's death in 30 BC, the 1918 shooting of Lenin, the 1963 Moscow-Washington hotline, Thurgood Marshall's 1967 Supreme Court confirmation, and births including Mary Shelley and Ernest Rutherford.
August 31
August 31, the 243rd day of the year, is Independence Day for Malaysia (1957), Trinidad and Tobago (1962), and Kyrgyzstan (1991), and marks Diana's 1997 death in Paris, the 1886 Charleston earthquake, and the 1980 Solidarity accord.
August 4
August 4, the 216th day of the Gregorian year (217th in leap years), marked by Britain declaring war on Germany in 1914, France's abolition of feudalism in 1789, Anne Frank's 1944 arrest, and the 2020 Beirut explosion.
August 5
August 5, the 217th day of the Gregorian year, marks the 1775 San Carlos entry into San Francisco Bay, the 1861 first U.S. income tax, Mobile Bay (1864), Mandela's 1962 arrest, the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and Burkina Faso's National Day.
August 6
August 6, the 218th day of the year, is best known for the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, and also marks the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Jamaican independence in 1962, and Gertrude Ederle's 1926 English Channel swim.
August 7
August 7, the 219th day of the Gregorian year, is Purple Heart Day in the U.S. and Independence Day in Côte d'Ivoire; it marks the 1782 Purple Heart, 1942 Guadalcanal landing, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and 1998 embassy bombings.
August 8
August 8, the 220th day of the year, also called International Cat Day and Bā bā Day (爸爸節) in Taiwan; notable for the 1588 Armada defeat, Quit India Movement, Nixon's 1974 resignation announcement, the 8888 Uprising, and the 2023 Maui wildfires.
August 9
August 9 is the 221st day of the year: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (UN resolution 49/214, 1994) and the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki; other events include Ford's 1974 inauguration.
August A. Busch III
August A. Busch III is an American brewing executive who led Anheuser-Busch as president from 1974 and CEO from 1975 to 2002, taking control from his father in 1975.
August Arnold
August Arnold (1898–1982) was a German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded ARRI, the Munich maker of the Arriflex 35 and ALEXA cameras, with Robert Richter in 1917.
August Detlev Christian Twesten
August Detlev Christian Twesten (1789–1876) was a German evangelical-Lutheran theologian who succeeded Friedrich Schleiermacher as professor of systematic theology at the University of Berlin in 1835.
August Eduard Cunitz
August Eduard Cunitz, also published as Édouard Cunitz (1812–1886), was a Strasbourg Protestant theologian and professor of New Testament exegesis who co-edited the Strasbourg edition of Calvin's Opera.
August Erséus
August Erséus is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded the legal-AI company Legora, formerly Leya, in Stockholm in 2023 and served as its Chief Product Officer.
August Gottlieb Spangenberg
August Gottlieb Spangenberg (1704–1792) was a German theologian and bishop of the Moravian Church who founded its North American branch in Philadelphia and succeeded Count Zinzendorf as its major leader.
August Hermann Cremer
August Hermann Cremer (1834–1903) was a German Protestant theologian, chief pastor at St. Marien and professor at Greifswald, whose lexicon of New Testament Greek ran through eleven editions.
August Hermann Francke
August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) was a German Protestant theologian, educator, and social reformer, a leading figure of Pietism who built a famous complex of schools and orphanages at Halle.
August Kayser
August Kayser (1821–1885) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor at Stossweier and Neuhof in Alsace and professor of theology at Strasbourg, known for his 1874 work on the pre-exilic history of Israel.
August Küntzmann Damm
August Küntzmann Damm (1843–1877) was a French brewer from Alsace who settled in Barcelona in 1871 and founded the brewery that became S.A. Damm, brewer of Estrella Damm.
August Landmesser
August Landmesser (1910–1944), German Blohm & Voss shipyard worker and former NSDAP member engaged to Jewish woman Irma Eckler; identified, though disputed against Gustav Wegert, as the arms-crossed man refusing the Nazi salute in the 1936 Horst Wessel launch photograph.
August Neander
August Neander, born David Mendel, was a German Protestant church historian (1789–1850), baptized in Hamburg in 1806, who held Berlin's first church history chair from 1813.
August Oetker
August Oetker (1862–1918) was a German pharmacist who founded the Dr. Oetker food business in Bielefeld in 1891, selling Backin baking powder in small, fixed-dose sachets.
August Pfluger
August Pfluger, born in 1978, is an American politician and Republican who has represented Texas's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2021, after 26 years as an Air Force colonel.
August Rei
August Rei (1886–1963) was an Estonian Social Democratic politician, jurist, and diplomat who was State Elder in 1928–1929 and prime minister in exile from 1945 to 1963.
August Revolution
August Revolution (Cách mạng Tháng Tám), the Viet Minh's August 1945 seizure of power in Vietnam after Japan's 9 March coup and 15 August surrender, leading to Bảo Đại's abdication, Ho Chi Minh's 2 September 1945 independence declaration, and the DRV.
August Sedláček
August Sedláček (1843–1926) was a Czech historian, archivist, genealogist, and heraldist whose fifteen-volume Castles, Chateaux and Strongholds of the Kingdom of Bohemia, published 1882–1927, made him the founder of systematic Czech castle research.
August Spies
August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), German-born Chicago anarchist, editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, Haymarket affair defendant hanged November 11, 1887 after the 1886 bombing trial.