| 2005 | Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836 |
| 1993 | 21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton |
| 1993 | 93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris |
| 1993 | Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46) |
| 1993 | Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28) |
| 1992 | Largest wrestling crowd out side of U.S. (75,000) at Wembley Stadium |
| 1992 | Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season and it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris |
| 1992 | Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error |
| 1991 | John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities |
| 1990 | C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 |
| 1990 | Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq |
| 1988 | Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir |
| 1987 | Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time |
| 1987 | Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17) |
| 1986 | Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) |
| 1986 | Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya |
| 1985 | Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission |
| 1985 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1985 | New York Yankee Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time |
| 1982 | 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
| 1982 | George Brett gets his 1,500th hit |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1 |
| 1981 | 28th Walker Cup: U.S. wins 15-9 |
| 1981 | Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League)) |
| 1979 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York |
| 1977 | St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3 |
| 1976 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 1975 | Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1972 | San Francisco Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row |
| 1970 | Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed) |
| 1969 | Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench |
| 1969 | KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | 1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains) |
| 1968 | Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) |
| 1968 | Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja |
| 1967 | Final TV episode of "Fugitive" |
| 1967 | Yankees longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yankees win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes |
| 1966 | Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) |
| 1965 | Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 |
| 1965 | Willie Mays sets NL record for home runs in a month with his 17th of August |
| 1964 | "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 965 performances |
| 1964 | Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released |
| 1964 | On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330) |
| 1963 | Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH |
| 1962 | Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended |
| 1962 | U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba |
| 1960 | Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack |
| 1958 | Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo |
| 1958 | George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe) |
| 1957 | Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| 1957 | Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights |
| 1956 | French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
| 1954 | San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens |
| 1953 | KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb |
| 1950 | International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52 |
| 1949 | U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb |
| 1947 | Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier |
| 1945 | British liberate Hong Kong from Japan |
| 1945 | General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan |
| 1944 | 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees |
| 1944 | Anti German rebellion in Slovakia |
| 1943 | Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany |
| 1941 | German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children |
| 1940 | 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567) |
| 1939 | Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II |
| 1937 | Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st) |
| 1935 | 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450) |
| 1932 | International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam |
| 1932 | United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops |
| 1929 | German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight |
| 1925 | After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him |
| 1924 | German Republic day accepts Dawes plan |
| 1916 | Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve |
| 1916 | General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff |
| 1916 | Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die |
| 1916 | U.S. Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence |
| 1916 | Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff |
| 1914 | 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught |
| 1914 | Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal |
| 1914 | Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac |
| 1913 | Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government |
| 1909 | AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
| 1909 | World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins |
| 1908 | N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London |
| 1906 | Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die |
| 1906 | William J. Clothier wins the U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1905 | Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville |
| 1904 | 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis |
| 1896 | Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador |
| 1889 | 1st American International pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) |
| 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle |
| 1885 | Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0 |
| 1885 | Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey |
| 1883 | Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion |
| 1882 | Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" |
| 1882 | Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 and 7-44) |
| 1864 | William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae |
| 1862 | 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins |
| 1862 | Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels |
| 1862 | Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station) |
| 1862 | U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation |
| 1854 | Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) |
| 1844 | 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win |
| 1842 | Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war |
| 1831 | Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer |
| 1793 | Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed |
| 1792 | English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 |
| 1786 | Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass |
| 1776 | Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester |
| 1758 | New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation |
| 1756 | England and France meet in war |
| 1756 | Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War |
| 1742 | Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist |
| 1708 | English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia |
| 1708 | Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians |
| 1664 | Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam |
| 1655 | Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw |
| 1640 | English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland |
| 1612 | Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese |
| 1540 | Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges |
| 1533 | Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa |
| 1526 | Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs |
| 1484 | Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII |
| 1475 | Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts |
| 1261 | Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV |
| 1178 | Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III |
| 284 | General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome |
| 284 | Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs) |
