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August Internet Activities: http://www.activitiesforkids.com/summer/Augnotes.htm
Summer Calendar For August: http://www.activitiesforkids.com/summer/August.htm
August is National Inventor's Month: http://www.surfnetkids.com/invent.htm
MIDSUMMER WREATHS: http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/wreath.html
Older students can have a go at this craft to celebrate
midsummer. They will first need to collect reeds and wildflowers, soaking
the first and drying the latter. The reeds are then bundled and shaped
into a wreath form, tied with ribbon, and decorated with whatever dried
flowers you gathered.
August 1
-19 BC: Claudius I, was born.
-1498: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus set foot on the American
mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela.
-1744: French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, known for his theory of
evolution, was born. -1770: Explorer William Clark was born.
-1779: Francis Scott Key, Lawyer/poet, was born. After witnessing the
British attack on Fort
Henry, Baltimore, in 1814, he wrote a set of verses describing the event
that eventually became "The Star Spangled Banner."
-1790: The first U.S. census showed a population of 3,929,214 people in
17 states.
-1815: Lawyer and writer Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of "Two Years
Before the Mast," was born.
-1819: Author Herman Melville was born.
-1907: An Aeronautical Division was added to the Army Signals Corps, and
this forerunner of the U.S. Air Force bought its first airplane. The aircraft
was built by the Wright brothers.
-1922: Actors Arthur Hill was born.
-1930: Geoffrey Holder was born.
-1933: Comic actor Dom DeLuise was born.
-1936: French fashion designer Yves St. Laurent was born.
-1942: Jerry Garcia, co-founder of the Grateful Dead rock group, was born.
-1977: Francis Gary Powers, pilot of a U-2 pilot spy plane shot down over
the Soviet Union in 1960, was killed when his weather helicopter crashed
in Los Angeles.
-1973: Actress Tempestt Bledsoe was born.
-1981: MTV premiered at 12:01 a.m. (ET). The first video aired was the
Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star.
-1988: The city council of Yonkers, N.Y., rejected a court-ordered housing
integration plan, risking heavy fines and municipal bankruptcy.
-1990: Moslem rebels surrendered in Trinidad and Tobago, five days after
launching a coup and taking Prime Minister Arthur Robinson and dozens
of others hostage.
-1993: The Mississippi River finally crested in St. Louis at 49.4 feet,
2.5 feet below the top of the floodwall protecting the central part of
the city.
-1994: Lisa Marie Presley confirmed rumors that she had married pop star
Michael Jackson May 26 in the Dominican Republic. The couple divorced
less than two years later. Haiti declared a state of siege following passage
of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing an invasion of the Caribbean
nation.
-1995: Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced it was buying CBS, one day
after Disney announced its purchase of Capital Cities/ABC.
-1996: Two Arkansas bankers prosecuted by the Whitewater special counsel
were acquitted on fraud and conspiracy charges while the jury deadlocked
on others.
August 2
-1892: Jack Warner of the famed Hollywood Warner Brothers was born in
London, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest of twelve children, born
to Polish immigrants, and when his peddler father finally settled, young
Jack entertained audiences during intermissions at his fami-
ly's nickelodeon in Pennsylvania. In 1912 Jack and three of his brothers
began producing films.
-1905: Actress Myrna Loy was born.
-1918: Beatrice Straight wa born.
-1923: President Warren G. Harding, on a tour of Alaska and the West Coast,
died of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel at the age of 58 as rumors of
a potential corruption scandal swirled in Washington.
-1924: Author James Baldwin and actor Carroll O'Connor were born. Carroll
O'Connor, actor, was made famous by his roles as Archie Bunker in "All
In the Family" and as sheriff in "In the Heat of the Night."
-1932: Actor Peter O'Toole was born.
-1934: With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor
Adolf Hitler became absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuehrer,
or "Leader.
-1939: Filmmaker Wes Craven was born.
-1944: Joanna Cassidy was born.
-1950: Kathryn Harrold was born.
-1968: A major earthquake in the Philippines rocked Manila, killing 307
people.
-1974: John Dean, counsel to President Nixon, was sentenced to one-to-four
years in prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up.
-1977: Edward Furlong was born.
-1988: U.S. military investigators concluded that crew errors led to the
shooting down on July 3 of an Iranian passenger jet by the USS Vincennes
in the Persian Gulf.
-1990: Iraq invaded and overran neighboring Kuwait after weeks of tension
over disputed land and oil production quotas
-2000: The Republican Party nominated George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to
head its ticket for the Nov. 2000 elections.
August 3
1941: Martha Stewart, lifestyle guru and businesswoman, was born.
August 5
-1861: President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first federal income
tax. As a wartime measure, all incomes over $800 were to be taxed at the
rate of three percent. It was rescinded in 1872.
-1889: Poet and critic Conrad Aiken was born.
-1906: Film director John Huston was born.
-1911: Actor Robert Taylor was born.
-1912: Swedish architect Raoul Wallenberg, who's credited with saving
100,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, was born.
-1915: Legendary guitarist Les Paul was born.
-1930: Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born.
-1935: Actor John Saxon was born.
-1946: Actress Loni Anderson was born.
-1953: Singer Samantha Sang was born.
-1957: Dick Clark's "American Bandstand"
began airing nationally.
-1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of barbiturates.
-1963: The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty
outlawing nuclear tests in the Earth's atmosphere, in space or under the
sea.
-1974: President Nixon admitted ordering the Watergate investigation halted
six days after the break- in. Nixon said he expected to be impeached.
-1981: President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers
striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive
action, regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for
months.
-1990: The United States sent a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia's
capital, to evacuate U.S. citizens because of a rebel threat to arrest
Americans to order to provoke foreign intervention in the civil war.
-1991: The Democrats ordered inquiries into allegations that Ronald Reagan's
1980 campaign team delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran
until after the election. Iraq admitted it misled U.N. inspectors about
secret biological weapons and also admitted extracting plutonium
from fuel at a nuclear plant.
-1994: Opponents of Fidel Castro clashed with police in Havana as thousands
of Cubans took to the high seas trying to reach the United States. U.S.
fighter-jets acting under NATO orders attacked Bosnian Serb positions
after the Serbs seized weapons from a U.N depot. The weapons were returned.
Kenneth Starr, solicitor general under President Bush, was named as independent
prosecutor investigating the Whitewater scandal.
-1997: North Korea opened talks with the United States, China and South
Korea aimed at negotiating a permanent treaty to replace the armistice
agreed to after the Korean War.
-1998: Iraq announced it would no longer cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors
and demanded the lifting of the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1991.
-1999: The Senate confirmed Richard C. Holbrooke
as ambassador to the U.N. Holbrooke’s confirmation had been held
up for 14 months because of ethics allegations against him.
-1966: Actor Jonathan Silverman was born.
August 6
-1945: The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that
instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear
weapon in warfare.
August 9
-1968: Gillian Anderson, actress was born. Brought up in London, her family
returned to the United States, where she became involved in community
theater, and studied at DePaul University. She found theater parts in
New York City, and eventually moved to Los Angeles, where she was offered
the part of Dana Scully in the science fiction television series The X-Files.
She won a Golden Globe, as well as an Emmy.
August 10
-1874: Herbert Hoover, thirty-first U. S. president, was born in West
Branch, Iowa. He died in 1964. He was known for his World War I relief
efforts and his belief in streamlining the government. He fostered the
growth of trade associations and promoted American foreign
trade. He also set up a Division of Housing to encourage home building,
built the Bureau of Standards into one of the country's leading scientific
research institutions, and successfully pushed for stronger government
regulation of the commercial aviation and radio industries.
August 11
-1953: Terry ""Hulk"" Hogan
was born. Professional wrestler; five-time World Wrestling Federation
champion famous for his ""Hulkamaniac"" fan following.
August 12
- 1898: The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
August 13
- 1961: Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between
the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of
refugees. Two days later, work began on the Berlin Wall.
August 14
- 1945: President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally,
ending World War II.
August 18
-1963: James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University
of Mississippi.
August 19
National Financial Awareness Day: http://www.surfnetkids.com/money.htm
August 23
-1785: American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry was born.
-1869: Poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters was born.
-1883: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan in World War II was born.
-1884: Humorist Will Cuppy was born.
-1905: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (creator of "Nancy") was
born.
-1912: Dancer/actor Gene Kelly was born.
-1930: Actress Vera Miles was born.
-1932: Political comedian Mark Russell was born.
-1934: Actress Barbara Eden was born.
-1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact.
Less than two years later, Germany launched a blitzkrieg attack on Russia.
-1947: Rock drummer Keith Moon of "The Who" was born.
-1949: Actress Shelley Long and singer/actor Rick Springfield ("General
Hospital") were born.
-1978: Basketball player Kobe Bryant was born.
-1982: Beirut Christian leader Beshir Gemayel was elected president of
Lebanon. He was assassinated less than one month later and was succeeded
by his brother, Amin.
-1991: Russian Republic president Boris Yeltsin pressured Soviet President
Gorbachev into replacing his cabinet in the wake of a failed coup.
-1992: Three people were killed when their truck was struck
at a railroad crossing by an Amtrak passenger train in Wallingford, Conn.
-1996: Tobacco regulation, recommended by the FDA, was approved by President
Clinton.
-1998: Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his reformist premier, Sergei
Kiriyenko and brought back Viktor Chernomyrdin as acting premier.
- 1999: Berlin once again became the capital of Germany.
August 26
-1971: The U.S. Congress designated "Women's Equality Day" to
honor women's continuing efforts toward equality.
Women's Equity Day: http://www.surfnetkids.com/
August 28
-1749: German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe was born.
-1774: Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic
Church, was born.
-1899: Actor Charles Boyer was born.
-1903: Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim was born.
-1922: A New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial,
on station WEAF.
-1925: Actor/dancer Donald O'Connor was born.
-1930: Actor Ben Gazzara was born.
-1932: Actor "Pat" Morita was born.
-1940: Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen was born.
-1943: Singer/actor David Soul was born.
1957: Actor Daniel Stern was born.
-1958: Ice skater Scott Hamilton was born.
-1960: Actor Emma Samms ("Dynasty") was born.
-1963: More than 200,000 civil rights protesters led by Martin Luther
King Jr. staged an orderly "Freedom March" in Washington, DC
-1968: The Democratic Party nominated Hubert Humphrey for president as
thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators battled police in the streets
and parks of Chicago.
-1969: Jason Priestley ("Beverly Hills 90210") was born.
-1965: Country singer Shania Twain was born.
1982: LeAnn Rimes was born.
-1986: Soviet spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced in San Francisco to 365
years in prison and fined $410,000.
-1988: More than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful
coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.
-1990: At least 27 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a
tornado struck Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago. A fourth and fifth
college student victims of an apparent serial killer were found near the
University of Florida at Gainesville.
-1992: Federal relief got under way for the South
Florida victims of Hurricane Andrew with the arrival of the first giant
C-5A military transport at devastated Homestead Air Force Base.
-1994: A supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide was shot to death in Port-au-Prince.
-1996: President Clinton was renominated as the Democratic Party's presidential
candidate.
-1997: Proposition 209, California's controversial anti-affirmative action
measure approved by the state's voters a year earlier, officially took
effect.
August 29
-1533: The last Incan king of Peru, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders
from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
-1632: English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.
-1877: The second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, died
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-1943: Responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to
scuttle most of its naval ships.
-1944: 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris
as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
-1957: south Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster
against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours.
-1965: Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete"
Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
-1966: The Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last
public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
-1975: Irish statesman Eamon de Valera died near Dublin at age 92.
-1981: Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling at
age 89.
-1987: Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz, at
age 63.
-1991: In a stunning blow to the Soviet Communist Party, the Supreme Soviet
legislature voted to suspend the activities of the organization and freeze
its bank accounts, because of the party's role in the failed coup.
-1996: In a rousing climax to the Democratic convention in Chicago, President
Clinton appealed for a second term, declaring. "Hope is back in America."
The convention also nominated Al Gore for a second term as vice president.
Earlier in the day, President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick
Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute.
-2000: President Clinton ended a four-day trip t Africa with a brief visit
to Cairo, where he sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak in pursuing
a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Pope John Paul II laid
down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century, endorsing
organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning human cloning
and embryo experiments.
August 31
-1870: Italian educator Maria Montessori was born.
-1887: Thomas Edison was awarded a patent for the first movie projector.
-1897: Actor Fredric March was born.
-1903: Entertainer Arthur Godfrey was born. A Packard automobile completed
a 52-day journey from San Francisco to New York, becoming the first car
to cross the nation under its own power.
-1908: Writer William Saroyan was born.
-1913: Astronomer Sir Alfred Lovell was born.
-1916: Journalist Daniel Schorr was born.
-1918: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born.
-1924: Comedian Buddy Hackett was born.
-1928: Actor James Coburn was born.
-1935: Baseball player/manager Frank Robinson, first black to manage a
major league team, and black militant Eldridge Cleaver, were born.
-1945: Violinist Itzhak Perlman and rock singer Van Morrison, were born.
-1949: Actor Richard Gere was born.
-1955: Olympian track athlete Edwin Moses was born.
-1970: Singer/actress Debbie Gibson was born.
-1991: The Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Kirghizia declared independence,
leaving only five republics with membership in the Soviet Union. Serbia
accepted a European Community proposal that included international observers
to oversee a cease-fire in Croatia.
-1992: White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered, ending an 11-day siege
of his Idaho mountain cabin that cost the lives of his wife, teenage son,
and a U.S. marshal.
-1993: The Israeli government agreed in principle a plan for interim Palestinian
self-rule of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.
-1994: The Irish Republican Army declared a cease-fire following six months
of secret talks with Britain.
-1997: Britain's Princess Diana died of her injuries a few hours after
a car accident in Paris that killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their
driver. A bodyguard survived, although he was seriously injured.
-1999: One person was killed and 40 more injured
in a bomb blast at a Moscow shopping center. The Russian government blamed
terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
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