The month of "August" was named after Augustus Caesar.
On August 1st, 1976, Elizabeth Taylor got divorced once
more to Richard Burton for the second time. We veleive she
has been married nine times.
On August 2nd, 1876, frontier marshal "Wild Bill"
Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon
in Deadwood, South Dakota. The poker hand he was holding
when shot is now known as the "dead man's hand". A "dead
man's hand" is now known as Aces & 8s (Two Pair).
On August 3rd, the first telephone conversation in
which voices were bounced off the moon was accomplished by
U.S. scientists, 1960.
On August 4th, during WWII, the Gestapo captured Anne
Frank, her family and others, in Holland, 1944.
On August 5th, actress Marilyn Monroe, was found dead
in her home, 1962
On August 6th, 1926, New Yorker Gertrude Ederle became
the first woman to Swim the English Channel .
On August 6th, First Lady Edith Roosevelt (wife of
Theodore Roosevelt) was born Edith Kermit Carow in
Norwich, Connecticut, 1861. I might name my daughter
Kermit too!
August 6th is a busy day! The United States dropped an
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.
On August 8th, Thomas Edison received a patent for his
mimeograph, 1876.
On August 8th, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced
that he would resign his presidency.
On August 9th, the steamboat Erie, caught on fire on
Lake Erie, killing 175, 1841.
On August 9th, the United States dropped an Atomic bomb
on Nagasaki, Japan, 1945.
On August 10th, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with
polio at his summer home on the Canadian Island of
Campobello, 1921.
On August 12th, the first public police force was
formed in New Amsterdam. It consisted of ten watchmen who
were paid 24 stuyvers (about fifty cents) per night. Their
salaries were collected from the townspeople each month,
1658.
Born on August 14th, 1961, actress Susan Olsen is best
known as Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch. Cindy's doll's
name was Kitty KarryAll.
On August 15th, 1969, the 3-day rock festival
originally called the 'Woodstock Music and Art Fair'
began. An 'Advance Sale THREE DAY TICKET' for one person
was $18.00.
On August 15th, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the
island of Corsica, 1769.
On August 16th, Baseball great Babe Ruth died, 1948.
Born on August 17th, 1786, Davy Crockett was killed
defending the Alamo.
On August 19th, Adolf Hitler became Fuhrer of Germany,
1934. Creepy, evil dude!
On August 19th, President William J. Clinton was born
in Hope, Arkansas, 1946 and actor Groucho Marx, of the
famous Marx Brothers, died in Los Angeles, at the age of
86, 1977. I think Clinton is the reincarnation of Groucho!
On August 24th, Washington, D.C. was captured by
British and Canadian troops under General Robert Ross,
during the War of 1812, 1814.
On August 24th, a patent for a motion picture camera,
the first of its kind, was filed by Thomas A. Edison,
1892.
On August 24th, Amelia Earhart, was the first woman to
fly across the United States, 1932.
August 28th 476, was the last day of the Roman Empire.
On August 29th, the Beatles concluded their fourth
American tour with their last public concert at
Candlestick Park , San Francisco, 1966.
On August 31st, Rocky Marciano died in a plane crash in
Iowa at the age of 45, 1969.
On August 31st, Lady Diana, Princess of Wales and her
companion Dodi Al Fayed died tragically in a car crash in
Paris, France, 1997.
