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August is steeped in history, from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (Aug 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) in 1945 to the March on Washington (Aug 28, 1963) where MLK Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream." International Left-Handers Day falls on August 13. Our database covers every day from August 1 through 31 with verified events, births, and deaths.
Every day in August
1
August 1
394 entries
2017 — A suicide attack on a mosque in Heart, Afghanistan kills 20 people.2008 — The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail...2008 — Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest...
2
August 2
369 entries
2014 — At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in...2005 — Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the...1999 — The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
3
August 3
355 entries
2014 — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in...2010 — Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local...2007 — Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after...
4
August 4
337 entries
2007 — NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.2006 — A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the...1995 — Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
5
August 5
372 entries
2015 — The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases 3...2012 — The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing...2010 — The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft...
6
August 6
336 entries
2015 — A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.2012 — NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.2011 — War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30...
7
August 7
325 entries
2008 — The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.1999 — The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.1998 — Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill...
8
August 8
371 entries
2016 — Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and...2015 — Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.2013 — A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
9
August 9
334 entries
2014 — Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot...2013 — Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people...2006 — At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot...
10
August 10
393 entries
2014 — Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.2012 — The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of...2009 — Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster...
11
August 11
305 entries
2017 — At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains...2012 — At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near...2006 — The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the...
12
August 12
362 entries
2015 — At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.2000 — The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a...1994 — Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
13
August 13
308 entries
2015 — At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.2008 — South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.2004 — One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee...
14
August 14
343 entries
2015 — The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when...2013 — Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators...2007 — The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people.
15
August 15
374 entries
2015 — North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8½ hours...2013 — At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near...2013 — The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous...
16
August 16
354 entries
2017 — Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force.2015 — More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by...2013 — The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu,...
17
August 17
340 entries
2017 — 2017 Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and...2015 — A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19...2009 — An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts...
18
August 18
304 entries
2017 — 2 people are killed and 8 injured in Turku in the first terrorist attack in Finland in...2008 — President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.2008 — War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
19
August 19
328 entries
2013 — The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.2010 — Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams...2009 — A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
20
August 20
433 entries
2016 — 54 people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding...2014 — Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of...2012 — A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
21
August 21
317 entries
2017 — An eclipse traverses the continental United States.2016 — Last day of the Rio Summer Olympics.2013 — Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
22
August 22
355 entries
2012 — Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in...2007 — The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in...2006 — Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern...
23
August 23
371 entries
2013 — A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.2012 — A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people...2011 — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council...
24
August 24
364 entries
2016 — An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as...2010 — In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and...2006 — The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto...
25
August 25
365 entries
2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the...2012 — Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.2006 — Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years...
26
August 26
309 entries
2015 — Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while...2011 — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification...2009 — Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing...
27
August 27
355 entries
2011 — Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an...2009 — Internal conflict in Burma: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three...2006 — Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky...
28
August 28
378 entries
1998 — Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and...1998 — Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the...1993 — The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first...
29
August 29
335 entries
2012 — At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan...2005 — Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida...2003 — Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is...
30
August 30
339 entries
2014 — Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly...1998 — Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their...1995 — Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
31
August 31
354 entries
2016 — Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.2006 — Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in...2005 — The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
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