Tour de France
Aug 1 Tour de France: François Faber of Luxembourg becomes the first foreigner to win the cycling classic
- Aug 2 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
- Aug 2 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
Umpire Starts a Riot
Aug 3 MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call; 2 weeks later Hurst banned for life
Japan's Gift of Friendship
Aug 18 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President William Howard Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
- Aug 19 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of automobile race Indianapolis 500, opens in Speedway, Indiana
- Aug 24 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
- Aug 26 Australian cricket all-rounder Frank Tarrant scores 145 and takes 13-67 in a county game for Middlesex as they beat Gloucester by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
Chesbro's Final Highlander Game
Aug 27 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jack Chesbro's final game for NY Highlanders; 17-6 loss to the Tigers at Bennett Park, Detroit
US Men's Championship
Aug 27 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: William Larned beats William Clothier 6-1, 6-2, 5-7, 1-6, 6-1 for his 3rd straight & 5th overall US singles title
- Aug 29 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
- Aug 29 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
- Aug 30 Burgess Shale fossil site - one of most diverse and best-preserved in the world, discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott in Candaian Rocky Mountains (now British Columbia's Yoho National Park)
- Aug 31 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
- Aug 31 Swedish runner Thure Johansson runs world record marathon (2:40:34.2) in Stockholm
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