AUGUST 1 — 1991 Like, Totally Happy Birthday MTV; 1893 Shredded Wheat patented by Henry Perky & William Ford; 1876 Colorado admitted to Union; 1864 Battle of Petersburg
AUGUST 2 – 1945 Patsdam Conference ends; 1835 Elisha Grey, telephone inventor; 1987 Michael Andretti wins Marlboro 500; 1998Barry Bonds hit by ball, charges mound; 1999 The 6th Sense movie premieres
AUGUST 3 – 1846 Donner party gets first delay; 1811 HB Elisha Graves, patented safeguard for elevators; 1949 NBA is formed; 1958 USS Nautilus sub goes to North Pole; 1963 Beach Boys release Surfer Girl
AUGUST 4 – 1961 Happy Birthday Barack Obama; 1939 Jessse Owens wins long jump in Berlin; 2006 Talladega Nights premieres
AUGUST 5 – 1981 Reagan dismantles PATCO; 1864 Battle of mobile Bay; 16914 1st Traffic light installed; 1969 Patrick Stargill knocks ball out of poark/2011 A-Rod suspended for 211 games; 1956 Happy Birthday Maureen McCormick, Brady Bunch; 19625 Happy Birthday Patrick Ewing, NY Knicks, Olympic winner; 2184 Happy Birthday Christine Chapel, Star Trek
AUGUST 6 – 1779 General Washington’s spy realizes need for cover story; 1996 Game of Thrones is published; 1936 Headlines: Owens Completes Triple!; 1861 Happy Birthday Edith Roosevelt
UGUST 7 – 1990 bush Sr. orders Operation: Desert Shielf; 1886 Happy Birthday Louis Hazeltine, invents Neutrodyne circuit; 1888 Happy Birthday Van Kannel, patented revolving door; 1782 George Washington establishes Purple Heart; 1927 Alderman booze smuggling intercepted by U.S. Coast Guard; 1956 Ted Williams fined for spitting on fans; 2008 Happy Anniversary Jewel/Ty Murray
SEPTEMBER 8 — 1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York; 1859 Subterranean Oil discovered in Pennsylvania; 2016 Cam Newton breaks record with 44th rushing touchdown
AUGUST 9 -Discount rates rise from 5-6% heading to Crash of 1929; Battle of Cedar Creek Mountain; 1969 Manson cult kills five in Beverly Hills; 2016 A-Rod retires from the Yankees; 1971 Swanson gets patent for 3D printed device
AUGUST 10 – 1874 Happy Birthday Herbert Hoover; 1821 Missouri is admitted to U.S.; 1809 Happy birthday Robert Cornelius (took world’s first selfie); 1846 Smithsonian created
AUGUST 11 – 1973 DJ Kool Herc plays breakbeat; 1874Parmalee invents auto sprinkler system; 1984 Reagan makes joke on NPR; 1896 Hebbull invents pull chain for lights; 1919 Happy Birthday Green Bay Packers
AUGUST 12 – 18687 Pres. Johnson defies Congress in Stanton Affair; 1969 Viet Cong attack; 1851 Singer patents sewing machine; 1963 Happy Birthday Sir Mix-a-Lot
AUGUST 13 – 1864 Deep Bottom Campaign; 1972 Happy birthday Kevin Plank, founder of Under-Armour; 1860 Happy Birthday Annie Oakley
AUGUST 14 – 1961 New york Times: “East German Troops Seal Border With West Berlin”; 1959 Explorer 6 snaps the first Earth selfie; 12016 David Ortiz becomes oldest MLB player to hit 30 home runs in one season
SEPTEMBER 15 — 1857 Happy Birthday William Howard Taft; 1971 Heald Square Monument of Washington, Morris and Solomon becomes a Chicago landmark; 1954 marilyn Monroe films skirt scene
AUGUST 16 — 1977 Memphis Headlines: Death Captures Crown of Rock and Roll; 1888 Happy Birthday Electra Webb (Shelburne Museum) 1892 Ernest Seyd accused of bribing Congress; 1965 Miami Dolphins become 1st expansion team in AFL
AUGUST 17 – 1955 Eisenhower and CIA work with Britain to overthrow Mosaddegh in Operation: Ajax; 1835 Merrick patents wrench; 1877 Billy the Kid makes first kill; 2014 Franchesca becomes furriest rabbit in the world
AUGUST 18 – 1998 Washington Post: Clinton Admits to Lewinsky Relationship; 1958 TV game shows checked for scrutiny; 1963 Meredith first black student to graduate from Ole Miss; 1982 Longest game at Wrigley Field, Dodgers beat Cubs
AUGUST 19 – 1946 Happy Birthday Bill Clinton; 1953 CIA stage coup d’etat in Iran; 1906 Filo Farnsworth
AUGUST 20 – 1833 Happy Birthday Benjamin Harrison; 1833 Happy Birthday Lowe, inventor water gas process; 2011 Happy Anniversary Kim K/Kris Humphries
AUGUST 21 – 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th state; 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates; 1841 Hampton patents venetian blinds; 1935 Benny Goodman plays Swing; 1931 Babe Ruth hits 600th Home Run
AAUGUST 22 – 2017 Duke reelected canine mayor of Cormorant, MN; 1848 Happy anniversary President Ulysses and First Lady Julia Grant; 1957 Rademacher becmes only heavyweight boxer to challenge the champ in debut bout;2016 Chuck Helmke wins record for most tattooes for a senior
AUGUST 23 – 1979 Soviet Ballet dancer Godunov defects to America; 2016 Sheils Chastek of Bucks County, PA becomes Sesame Street’s biggest fan; 1784 Republic of Franklin declares independence from U.S.; 2017 Yankee Britton converts his 60th consecutive save
UGUST 24 – 1814 British sack White House; 1976 Happy Divorcary Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jack Ryan (invented Barbie, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy); 1889 — Jam Matzeliger dies (invented shoelace making machine);1983 Pee Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745; 1995 Windows 95 debuts
AUGUST 25– 1777 General Washington begins assigning codenames to his spy ring; 1876 Southern Brigadiers wave the bloody shirt at a parade in Charlston; ; 1986 Mark McGwuire hits 1st HR; 1950 Sugar Ray Robinson wins boxing middleweight title; 2016 Mochi wins award for longest dog tongue
AUGUST 26 – 1946 Navy heads to Antarctica in Operation: HiJump; 1920 19th Amendment adopted; 1939 1st baseball game broadcast on TV; 1965 Happy Anniversary Henry Hill/Kate Friedman
AUGUST 27 – 1908 Happy Birthday LBJ; 1776 Battle of Brooklyn Heights; 2007 Michael Vick pleads notguilty to Bad Newz Kennel scandal
AUGUST 28 – 1963 MLK delivers Dream Speech; 1798 Founding Father Wilson dies penniless during Panic of 1796; 1837 Worcester ssauce invented, John Lea and William Perrins; 1955 NFL first preseason OT sudden death
AUGUST 29 – 2005 Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast; 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run
AUGUST 30 – 1963 Hotline established between Washington and Moscow; 1791 Jefferson responds to Bannickers letter; 2015 Monsters of Shlock and Ned Tat win award for largest tattoo making machine; 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches 94.7 MPH fastball
AUGUST 31 – 1997 America reacts to the death of Princess Diana; 1897 Edison patents Kinetograph; 1909 Al Reach patents cork-centered baseball;
1916 Harry Butters killed at Battle of Somme
Battle of Bennington, Vermont, occurred as militiamen from Vermont, aided by Massachusetts troops, wiped out a detachment of 800 German-Hessians sent by British General Burgoyne to seize horses. The battle was a big defeat for the Americans as forces under General Gates were defeated by troops of British General Charles Cornwallis, resulting in 900 Americans killed and 1,000 captured.