August 1st
- 1589: Henry III Of France Is Assassinated
- 1779: Francis Scott Key Is Born
- 1714: Queen Anne Of England Dies
- 1876: Seth Bullock Arrives In Deadwood
- 1944: Anne Frank Writes Her Final Diary Entry
- 1944: The Warsaw Uprising Begins
- 1969: The First Zodiac Letter Arrives At The San Fransisco Chronicle Office
- 1996: George R.R. Martin's A Game Of Thrones Is Published
- Further Events That Happened On This Day In History
August 2nd
- 1610: Henry Hudson Sails Into What Is Now Hudson Bay
- 1790: The First U.S. Census Is Conducted
- 1873: The First Cable Car Begins Operating In San Francisco
- 1876: Wild Bill Hickok Dies
- 1923: U.S. President Warren G. Harding Dies In Office
- 1990: The Gulf War Begins
August 3rd
- 1305: William Wallace Is Captured
- 1492: Christopher Columbus Sets Sail For The New World
- 1914: Germany And France Declare War On Each Other
- 1916: Sir Roger Casement Is Hanged For Treason
- 1936: Jesse Owens Wins His First Gold Medal At The Berlin Olympics
- 1958: The U.S.S. Nautilus Travels Under The North Pole
August 4th
- 1693: Dom Pérignon Invents Champagne
- 1892: The Ax Murders Of Andrew and Abby Borden
- 1944: Anne Frank Is Captured By The Gestapo
- 1962: Marilyn Monroe Dies
- 1987: Carlina White Goes Missing
August 5th
- 1100: Henry I Becomes King Of England
- 1620: The Mayflower Makes Its Failed First Attempt To Depart England
- 1888: Anna Haining Bates Dies
- 1930: Neil Armstrong Is Born
- 1962: Marilyn Monroe's Body Is Discovered
- 2009: Dalia Dippolito Is Arrested For Trying To Have Her Husband Killed
August 6th
- 1846: Anna Haining Bates, One Of The Tallest Women In The World, Is Born
- 1890: The First Execution By Electric Chair Takes Place
- 1928: Andy Warhol Is Born
- 1945: The Atomic Bomb Is Dropped On Hiroshima
- 2000: The Alpha Dog Abduction Occurs
- 2004: Cyntoia Brown Murders Johnny Allen
August 7th
- 1560: Elizabeth Báthory Is Born
- 1782: George Washington Creates The Purple Heart Award
- 1876: Mata Hari Is Born
- 1947: Thor Heyerdahl Completes His Voyage Across The Pacific Ocean In A Raft
- 1974: The Winchester Mystery House Becomes A Historical Landmark
- 1985: The White House Farm Murders
August 8th
- 1844: Brigham Young Is Chosen To Lead The Mormon Church
- 1883: Emiliano Zapata Is Born
- 1914: The Endurance Departs From Plymouth, England
- 1963: England's "Great Train Robbery"
- 1974: Richard Nixon Resigns
- 2003: Serial Killer Shelly Knotek Is Arrested
August 9th
- 1173: Construction Begins On The Leaning Tower Of Pisa
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau Publishes Walden
- 1882: The Pawpaw Tree Incident Takes Places
- 1936: Jesse Owens Wins His Fourth Gold Medal
- 1945: The Bombing Of Nagasaki
- 1969: The Manson Family Murders Begin
- 2011: Warren Jeffs Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
August 10th
- 1628: The Warship Vasa Sinks
- 1793: The Louvre Opens In Paris
- 1846: The Smithsonian Institution Is Established
- 1970: Jim Morrison's Indecent Exposure Trial Begins
- 1977: The "Son of Sam" Is Arrested
- 2017: Journalist Kim Wall Goes Missing After Boarding Peter Madsen's Submarine
August 11th
- 1833: Robert Ingersoll Is Born
- 1934: The First Civilian Prisoners Arrive At Alcatraz
- 1965: The Watts Rebellion Begins
- 1998: Poughkeepsie Killer Kendall Francois Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
- 2014: Robin Williams Dies
August 12th
- 30 B.C.E.: Cleopatra Dies By Suicide
- 1895: Minnie Dean Is Executed
- 1939: The Wizard Of Oz Premieres
- 1944: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Is Killed
- 1967: Buford Pusser's Wife Is Murdered
- 1990: History's Most Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Is Discovered
August 13th
- 1521: The Aztec Capital Falls To Hernán Cortés
- 1792: King Louis XVI Of France Is Arrested
- 1860: Annie Oakley Is Born
- 1961: Construction Begins On The Berlin Wall
- 2004: Julia Child Dies At The Age Of 91
August 14th
- 1751: Mary Blandy Poisons Her Father
- 1851: Russians Settle Alaska
- 1851: Doc Holliday Is Born
- 1880: Construction Is Completed On The Cologne Cathedral
- 1900: The Boxer Rebellion Is Crushed
- 1945: World War II Comes To An End
August 15th
- 1769: Napoleon Is Born
- 1914: The Opening Of The Panama Canal
- 1947: India Gains Independence
- 1961: Konrad Schumann Leaps Into Freedom
- 1969: Woodstock Begins
August 16th
- 1858: The First Transatlantic Telegraph Is Sent
- 1896: Gold Is Discovered In The Yukon Territory
- 1958: Madonna Is Born
- 1977: Elvis Presley Dies
- 2018: Aretha Franklin Dies
August 17th
- 1786: Davy Crockett Is Born
- 1877: Billy The Kid Kills His First Man
- 1888: James Jameson Dies
- 1913: Mark Felt Is Born
- 1959: David Koresh Is Born
- 1962: Peter Fechter Is Killed While Trying To Cross The Berlin Wall
- 1971: The Stanford Experiment Begins
- 1978: First Transatlantic Balloon Flight Takes Place
- 1980: Azaria Chamberlain Disappears
August 18th
- 1227: Genghis Khan Dies
- 1590: Roanoke Colony Is Found Deserted
- 1896: Butch Cassidy Tries To Organize A Train Robbers' Syndicate
- 1920: Women Win The Right To Vote In The United States
- 1931: Yangtze River Peaks In A Catastrophic Flood
August 19th
- 14 C.E.: Emperor Augustus Dies
- 1692: George Burroughs Is Hanged During The Salem Witch Trials
- 1839: The French Academy Of Sciences Debuts The Daguerreotype
- 1871: Orville Wright Is Born
- 1936: The Great Purge Begins In The Soviet Union
- 1980: Otto Frank Dies
- 1997: Don Lewis Is Reported Missing
- 2015: Jared Fogle Is Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
August 20th
- 1619: The First Enslaved Africans Arrive In Jamestown Colony
- 1667: John Milton Publishes Paradise Lost
- 1940: Leon Trotsky Is Killed In Mexico
- 1968: Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring Ends With Soviet Invasion
- 1989: The Menendez Brothers Kill Their Parents
August 21st
- 1831: Nat Turner Launches A Rebellion Of Enslaved People
- 1911: The Mona Lisa Is Stolen
- 1955: The Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO Incident Takes Place
- 1959: Hawaii Becomes The 50th U.S. State
- 1986: Carbon Dioxide Erupts From Lake Nyos In Cameroon
- 1992: The Ruby Ridge Siege Begins
August 22nd
- 1485: Battle Of Bosworth Field Takes Place
- 1791: "Night Of Fire" Sets Off The Haitian Revolution
- 1922: Michael Collins Is Assassinated
- 1953: "Devil's Island" Penal Colony Closes
- 1987: "Mr Cruel" Begins His Crime Spree In Australia
August 23rd
- 1305: William Wallace Is Executed
- 1912: Bobby Dunbar Goes Missing
- 1927: Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti Are Executed
- 1936: Henry Lee Lucas Is Born
- 1956: JFK And Jackie Lose Their First Child
- 1962: John Lennon And Cynthia Powell Get Married
- 1991: The World Wide Web Opens To The Public
August 24th
- 79 C.E.: Mount Vesuvius Erupts
- 410: Rome Is Sacked By Visigoths
- 1572: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Begins
- 1814: British Forces Burn The White House
- 1902: Notorious Mobster Carlo Gambino Is Born
- 1932: Amelia Earhart Takes Off On Her Non-Stop Flight Across The United States
- 1990: The First "Gainesville Ripper" Murders Occur
August 25th
- 1530: Ivan The Terrible Is Born
- 1835: "The Great Moon Hoax" Is Published In The New York Sun
- 1875: Matthew Webb Becomes The First Person To Swim The English Channel
- 1985: Samantha Smith Dies In A Plane Crash
August 26th
- 1768: Captain James Cook Sets Sail On The HMS Endeavour
- 1910: Mother Teresa Is Born
- 1946: The U.S. Navy Approves Operation HIGHJUMP
- 1986: "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers Kills Jennifer Levin
- 2009: Jaycee Dugard Is Discovered Alive After 18 Years In Captivity
- 2015: Alison Parker Is Fatally Shot By Her Former Coworker On Camera
August 27th
- 410 C.E.: Visigoths Sack Rome
- 1883: Krakatoa Erupts
- 1896: The Anglo-Zanzibar War Begins And Ends
- 1955: The Guinness Book Of Records Debuts
- 1964: Edmund Kemper Commits His First Murder
- 1967: Brian Epstein Dies
August 28th
- 1774: St. Elizabeth Is Born
- 1879: Zulu King Cetshwayo Is Captured
- 1955: Emmett Till Is Lynched
- 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Gives His Famous "I Have A Dream" Speech
- 1984: Elisabeth Fritzl "Goes Missing" From Her Home In Austria
- 2003: Brian Wells Enters A PNC Bank In Erie, PA With A Bomb Strapped To His Chest
August 29th
- 1533: The Last Inca Emperor Is Executed
- 1911: The Last Surviving Member Of The Yahi Tribe Emerges In California
- 1939: The Louvre Begins Moving Art Out Of The Museum
- 1956: GG Allin Is Born
- 1958: Michael Jackson Is Born
- 2005: Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans
August 30th
- 1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Is Born
- 1918: Vladimir Lenin Is Shot
- 1963: Hotline Opens Between Moscow And Washington, D.C.
- 2013: Bryce Laspisa Disappears
- 2021: The United States Leaves Afghanistan
August 31st
- 1422: Henry V Of England Dies
- 1888: Jack The Ripper Claims His First Victim
- 1944: Mad Gasser Of Mattoon Strikes For The First Time
- 1985: "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez Is Attacked By A Mob And Arrested
- 1992: The Ruby Ridge Standoff Ends
- 1997: Princess Diana Dies
