- Aug 6 France annexes Madagascar
- Aug 7 New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic arriving in Le Havre (left Manhattan June 6) [1]
- Aug 11 Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
- Aug 12 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
- Aug 16 Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek in the Yukon, Canada by George Carmack
- Aug 18 Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
- Aug 20 Dial telephone patented
- Aug 23 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
- Aug 26 Armenian Revolutionary Federation assaults the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople to draw attention to the mass-pogroms and massacres of Armenians instigated by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Hamid II
National Men's Championship
Aug 26 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 for his third US singles title
- Aug 27 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.
- Aug 29 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
- Aug 30 Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. Including provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite and Nueva Ecija
- Aug 31 Louis Napoleon Parker's play "Rosemary" premieres in NYC
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