August
| 1 | Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Cannary,
died in 1903. Birth of explorer William Clark in 1770. First US Census taken in 1790. Birth of Francis Scott Key in 1779. He wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" Birth of author Herman Melville in 1819 Sisters' Day |
| 2 | Birth of author Holling C. Holling in
1900 Birth of architect, engineeer and Revoluntionary War officer Pierre Charles Le'Enfant in 1754 |
| 3 | Columbus sets sail for the New World in 1492 |
| 4 | Birth of musician Louis Armstrong in 1900 Coast Guard founded in 1790 |
| 5 | Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864 Birth of Declaration of Independence signer, Thomas Lynch in 1749 Birth of astronaut, Neil Alden Armstrong in 1930 |
| 6 | US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 Birth of author Barbara Cooney in 1917 Birth of author/illustrator Frank Asch in 1946 |
| 7 | Birth of American statesman Ralph Johnson
Bunche in 1904 Birth of author Betsy Byars in 1928 |
| 8 | Birth of explorer Matthew Henson in 1866 |
| 9 | US drops atomic bomb on Hagasaki in 1945 Death of pilot Jacqueline Cochran in 1980 Nixon resigns from the presidency in 1974 Birth of Pamela L. Travers in 1899 Birth of author Patricia McKissack in 1944 |
| 10 | Birth of President Herbert Clark Hoover
in 1874 Unconditional surrender of Japan in 1945 Smithsonian Institution founded in 1846 |
| 11 | Birth of 'US President for a Day' David
R. Atchison in 1807 Birth of author/illustrator Don Freeman in 1908 Birth of author Alex Palmer Haley in 1921 |
| 12 | King Philip Assassinated in 1676 Birth of author Ann M. Martin in 1955 Birth of author Fredrick McKissack in 1939 Birth of author Walter Dean Myers in 1937 |
| 13 | Berlin Wall erected in 1961 Birth of Annie Oakley in 1860 |
| 14 | V-J (Victory Over Japan) Day 1945 |
| 15 | Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1769 Opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 Transcontinental US Railway completed in 1870 |
| 16 | Birth of author Matt Christopher in 1917 |
| 17 | Birth of frontier statesman David 'Davy' Crockett in 1786 |
| 18 | Birth of explorer Meriwether Lewis in
1774 19th Amendment ratified in 1920 Birth of author Paula Danziger |
| 19 | Birth of President William Jefferson
Clinton in 1946 Birth of aviator Orville Wright in 1871 |
| 20 | Birth of President Benjamin Harrison in 1833 |
| 21 | Hawaii admitted to the Union in 1959 |
| 22 | Birth of author Ray Bradbury in 1920 Birth of author Will Hobbs in 1947 |
| 23 | Birth of naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry in 1785 |
| 24 | Hurricane Andrew hit the American coast in 1992 |
| 25 | Birth of author Lane Smith in 1959 |
| 26 | Birth of John Wilkes Booth in 1838 |
| 27 | Birth of President Lyndon Baines Johnson
in 1908 Birth of Mother Teresa in 1910 Birth of author Susy Kline in 1943 |
| 28 | Birth of illustrator J. Brian Pinkney in 1961 |
| 29 | Shays Rebellion in 1786 |
| 30 | Birth of author Virginia lee Burton in
1909 Birth of author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Birth of Donald Crews in 1938 |
| 31 | Death of Princess Diana dies in 1997 |
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