Calendar . Volume 03 | Issue 15

Volume 03, Issue 15

August 1

  • First U.S. Census was taken, 1790.

August 2

  • The U.S. War Department purchased its first airplane, 1909.
  • Alexander Graham Bell died, 1922.

August 6

  • Warner Bros. Studios premiered the first talking pictures, 1926.
  • The crew of the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 1945.

August 8

  • Battle of Britain took place, 1940.
  • President Nixon announced his resignation, 1974.

August 9

  • Jesse Owens becomes the first man to win four gold medals in the Olympic Games in Germany, 1936.
  • U.S. drops atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II, 1945.

August 11

  • First radioed S.O.S. sent by ship off the Carolina coast, 1909.
  • Six days of rioting begin in Watts District of Los Angeles, 1965.

August 12

  • East Germany erects wall overnight to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin, 1961.

August 13

  • First motorized taxis begin operating in New York City, 1907.

August 14

  • VJ Day, when Japan surrenders, ends World War II, 1945.
  • U.S. Social Security Law enacted, 1935.