- Aug 1 Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited
- Aug 5 Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump record at 24' 11 3/4" in Dublin, Ireland
- Aug 6 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation
- Aug 9 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
- Aug 10 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
- Aug 12 Boer General Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
- Aug 14 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
- Aug 14 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21
- Aug 15 Arch Rock, a danger to San Francisco Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
- Aug 15 Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property
- Aug 17 The Royal Titles Act adds the words 'and the British Dominions beyond the Seas' to the monarch's style
- Aug 20 The Fawcett Commission visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
- Aug 21 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is suspended from MLB for punching & spitting on umpire Tom Connolly in previous day's 5-2 loss to Detroit Tigers; lifetime suspension reduced to 12 days
- Aug 22 Cadillac Motor Company is founded
US Men's Championship
Aug 27 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4 for the first of 7 US singles titles
- Aug 30 English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the powered vacuum cleaner
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