--Colorado became the 38th state, August 1, 1876.
--William Clark, a leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, born August 1, 1770.
--Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," born August 1, 1779.
--Maria Mitchell, American astronomer, born August 1, 1818.
August 2
--Lincoln penny issued August 2, 1909.
August 3
--Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage across the Atlantic, August 3, 1492.
--Ernie Pyle, newspaper columnist, born August 3, 1900.
AUGUST 4
HAYDEN WHITE
August 5
--Union forces won the Battle of Mobile Bay in the Civil War, August 5, 1864.
August 6
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet, born August 6, 1809.
--Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel, August 6, 1926.
--An American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945.
August 7
--Ralph J. Bunche, American statesman, born August 7, 1904.
--United States troops landed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in World War II, August 7, 1942.
August 8
--American poet Sara Teasdale born August 8, 1884.
--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, born August 8, 1896.
--Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American atomic physicist and Nobel Prize winner, born August 8, 1901.
August 9
--Richard M. Nixon became the first U.S. President ever to resign from office, August 9, 1974
August 10
--The Columbia, under Robert Gray, completed the first voyage around the world by a ship flying the American flag, August 10, 1790.
--Missouri became the 24th state, August 10. 1821.
--Smithsonian Institution founded, August 10, 1846.
--Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, born in West Branch, Iowa, August 10, 1874.
August 12
--Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, August 12, 1877.
--George Bellows, American painter and lithographer, born August 12, 1882.
--The United States annexed Hawaii, August 12, 1898.
August 13
--Lucy Stone, women's rights leader, born August 13, 1818.
--Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, born August 13, 1860.
August 14
--U.S. Social Security Act approved, August 14, 1935.
PAUL & DEAN WHITE
August 15
--Indians massacred soldiers and settlers of Fort Dearborn, now Chicago, August 15, 1812.
--Panama Canal opened to traffic, August 15, 1914.
August 17
--American frontiersman Davy Crockett born August 17, 1786.
--United States and Canada arranged for joint defense of North America, August 17, 1940.
August 18
--Virginia Dare, first English child born in America, born August 18, 1587.
--Meriwether Lewis, a leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, born August 18, 1774.
--American merchant Marshall Field born August 18, 1835.
August 19
--Orville Wright, pioneer American aviator and airplane designer, August 19, born 1871.
--Philo T. Farnsworth, engineer who discovered a system for electronic television, born August 19, 1906.
August 20
--Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, born in North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833.
JASON AUSTIN
August 21
--Hawaii became the 50th state, August 21, 1959.
August 22
--John Fitch successfully demonstrated his side-paddle steamboat, August 22, 1787.
--The Savannah, first steamship to cross the Atlantic, launched, August 22, 1818.
--First local chapter of the American National Red Cross founded by Clara Barton, August 22, 1881.
August 23
--Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and biographer, born August 23, 1869.
CATHY (WHITE) CONTI
August 24
--William Wilberforce, British statesman and crusader against slavery, born August 24, 1759.
--British troops captured Washington, D.C., and burned the White House, August 24, 1814.
August 25
--Bret Harte, author of stories about the Western United States, born August 25, 1836.
--Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, and pianist, born August 25, 1918.
August 26
--Lee De Forest, American inventor, born August 26, 1873.
--Ottmar Mergenthaler received a patent for his Linotype machine, August 26, 1884.
--Amendment 19, giving women in the United States the right to vote, proclaimed, August 26, 1920.
August 27
--Oil production began commercially in the United States when Edwin Laurentine Drake struck oil, August 27, 1859.
--Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, born August 27, 1871.
--Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, born near Stonewall, Texas, August 27, 1908.
August 28
--Spanish explorers landed in Florida where St. Augustine now stands, August 28, 1565.
--Great Britain provided for the end of slavery in its colonies, August 28, 1833.
--More than 200,000 civil rights demonstrators staged a march on Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963.
August 29
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician and man of letters, born August 29, 1809.
--Inventor and automobile pioneer Charles F. Kettering born August 29, 1876.
August 30
--Second Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas, ended in a victory for the Confederates, August 30, 1862.
--Huey Long, Louisiana governor and U.S. senator, born August 30, 1893.
BONNIE (WHITE)
August 31
--Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands born August 31, 1880.
First Saturday in August, annual White Cemetery Cleaning Day in Dalton, Arkansas
