Historical Events
- Aug 1 "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 performances
Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 1 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
- Aug 1 England wins the women's cricket World Cup for the first time since the inaugural event in 1973 with a 67 run victory over New Zealand at Lord's
- Aug 1 Walter Koenig, Chekov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
- Aug 2 Maryland investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos buy the MLB Baltimore Orioles team at auction in New York for $173M, nearly $50M more than ever paid for a baseball team
- Aug 2 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapses
- Aug 2 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
- Aug 2 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
- Aug 4 Angolan air force bombs Huambo
- Aug 4 Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha, Tanzania
Baseball Record
Aug 4 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits in 11-10 win v Giants, 4th time this season the Padre has 5 or more hits; ties MLB record
Catholic Encyclical
Aug 6 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
- Aug 7 "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
- Aug 7 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
- Aug 8 Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
- Aug 9 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
- Aug 10 Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
River of Dreams
Aug 10 Columbia Records releases "River of Dreams", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's twelfth and final (unless he just changes his mind) studio album
- Aug 10 Earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand
Event of Interest
Aug 10 Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice
- Aug 11 NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
- Aug 11 Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
Sports History
Aug 11 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
- Aug 12 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
- Aug 13 4th Athletics World Championships open at Stuttgart, Germany
Sports History
Aug 13 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
- Aug 13 Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
- Aug 13 US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
- Aug 14 Nigerian presidential election
- Aug 14 Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
- Aug 14 St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
PGA Championship
Aug 15 75th PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness GC: Paul Azinger wins his first major title in a playoff with Greg Norman of Australia
The Goodbye Girl
Aug 15 Marvin Hamlisch and David Zippel's musical adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater, NYC, after 188 performances
Sports History
Aug 15 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
- Aug 15 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapses for 2nd time
- Aug 15 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
- Aug 16 South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
- Aug 16 The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release")
- Aug 18 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switzerland, destroyed by fire
- Aug 19 26th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Doubletree Hotel
- Aug 19 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
- Aug 19 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
- Aug 19 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
- Aug 19 Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge
- Aug 19 Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
- Aug 20 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
- Aug 20 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
Baseball Record
Aug 23 Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
- Aug 23 NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
- Aug 24 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
- Aug 24 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
Appointment of Interest
Aug 26 Ernest Shonekan is appointed interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida
- Aug 27 The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed.
- Aug 27 Yak-40 crashes in Tajikistan, killing 79 people with 1 survivor
- Aug 28 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
- Aug 28 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tajikistan, 76 killed
- Aug 28 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
- Aug 28 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
- Aug 29 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
Canadian Women's Open
Aug 29 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), London Hunt GC: Brandie Burton wins in a playoff from Betsy King
Late Show with David Letterman
Aug 30 "Late Show with David Letterman" debuts on CBS, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC; Bill Murray is his first guest, Billy Joel performs
Event of Interest
Aug 30 150,000,000th visitor to the Eiffel Tower
Venice Film Festival
Aug 31 50th Venice Film Festival: "Short Cuts" directed by Robert Altman and "Three Colors: Blue" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski jointly awarded Golden Lion
- Aug 31 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
- Aug 31 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
- Aug 31 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 2 Cassidy Gifford, American actress and daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee, born in New York
- Aug 3 Yurina Kumai, Japanese pop singer (Berryz Kobo; Hello! Project Kids), and fashion model, born in Kanagawa, Japan
- Aug 11 Alyson Stoner, American actress and pop singer, born in Toledo, Ohio
- Aug 15 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English football player (Liverpool), born in Portsmouth, England
- Aug 17 Ederson [de Moraes], Brazilian football goalkeeper (Manchester City, Brazil), born in Osasco, Brazil
- Aug 17 Yoo Seung-ho, South Korean actor (I'm Not a Robot), born in Incheon, South Korea
- Aug 18 Cameron Smith, Australian golfer (Players C'ship & British Open 2022; US Masters runner-up 2020), born in Brisbane, Australia
- Aug 21 Mike Evans, American NFL player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), born in Galveston, Texas
- Aug 21 Millie Bright, English football player (Chelsea, captain for England), born in Chesterfield, England
- Aug 26 Keke Palmer, American actress (True Jackson, VP), born in Harvey, Illinois
Liam Payne (30 years old)
Aug 29 English pop singer (One Direction- "What Makes You Beautiful"), born in Wolverhampton, England
Famous Weddings
Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger
Aug 19 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
Marlee Matlin
Aug 29 Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28) in New York City
Famous Divorces
Lionel Richie
Aug 9 American pop singer Lionel Richie (44) divorces Brenda Harvey, after nearly 18 years of marriage
Oliver Stone
Aug 11 American filmmaker Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth Cox, after 12 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
- Aug 1 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
- Aug 1 Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
- Aug 1 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
- Aug 1 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
- Aug 3 James Donald, Scottish actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings, In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies of stomach cancer at 76
- Aug 4 Bernard Barrow, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving), dies at 65
- Aug 4 Kenny Drew, American-Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
- Aug 5 (Alexander) "Duke" Burrell, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (Louisiana Shakers; Louis Jordan; Johnny Otis), dies at 73
- Aug 5 Eugen Suchoň, Slovak organist and composer (Krútňava (The Whirlpool); Psalm of the Carpathian Lands; Kaleidoscope), and music educator, dies at 84
- Aug 5 Randy Hobbs, American rock musician (Johnny Winter Band; McCoys), dies of heart failure at 45
- Aug 6 Milt Thompson, American astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), NASA test pilot and chief-engineer, dies at 67
- Aug 7 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14
- Aug 7 Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46
- Aug 8 Harry Bellaver, American actor (Another World; Naked City), dies at 88
- Aug 8 Lou van Rees, Dutch jazz and pop music impresario, dies at 77
- Aug 8 Roy London, American actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50
- Aug 10 Euronymous [Øystein Aarseth], Norwegian black-metal guitarist and producer (Mayhem), stabbed to death by a musical rival at 25
- Aug 10 Ken England, American screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
- Aug 12 Jerome Thor, American actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69
- Aug 15 Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
- Aug 16 Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
- Aug 16 Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
- Aug 16 Stewart Granger, English actor (Prisoner of Zenda, King Solomon's Mines), dies of cancer at 80
- Aug 16 Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDS at 56
- Aug 17 Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
- Aug 17 Johnny Sayles, American soul singer ("I Can't Get Enough Of Your Love"), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Aug 17 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator, dies at 72
- Aug 17 Phil Seymour, American rock and power pop musician, singer, and songwriter (The Dwight Twilley Band), dies of lymphoma at 41
- Aug 17 Robert C Maynard, American journalist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
- Aug 18 Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47
- Aug 19 Jean King, American actress (Night Has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
- Aug 19 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer, wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
- Aug 19 Utpal Dutt, Indian actor and director (Manusher Adhikar), dies at 64
- Aug 20 Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
- Aug 20 Sydney Arnold, British comic actor (The Meaning of Life, Top Secret!, Miss Jones & Son), dies at 93
- Aug 21 Tatiana Troyanos, American mezzo-soprano (Octavian-Der Rosenleavalier), dies of cancer at 54
- Aug 22 Don Getz, American filmmaker (Playpoint), dies at 50
- Aug 22 Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
- Aug 23 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
- Aug 23 Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
- Aug 23 Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
- Aug 24 D. B. Deodhar, Indian cricketer (Grand Old Man of Indian Cricket), dies at 101
- Aug 25 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
- Aug 26 Alan Wharton, English cricketer (England batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 & 13), dies at 70
- Aug 26 Rockin Dopsie Sr. [Alton Jay Rubin], American zydeco singer, and accordion player, dies of a heart attack at 61
- Aug 27 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
- Aug 28 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
- Aug 28 William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
- Aug 29 Dorian Corey, American actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDS at 56
- Aug 29 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
- Aug 30 Richard Jordan, American actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55
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