- Aug 1 Americans sweep medals at a rainy Olympic pole vault final in Amsterdam with Sabin Carr gold, from William Droegemuller and Charles McGinnis
Italo-Ethiopian Treaty
Aug 2 Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Aug 3 Ray Barbuti wins 400m in 47.8 at the Amsterdam Olympics, the only individual track event won by an American at the Games
Hubbell 1st MLB Victory
Aug 11 NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell registers first MLB victory, a 4-0 shutout of Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC
- Aug 12 IX Summer Olympic Games close in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Aug 13 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
- Aug 14 Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page," premieres in NYC
- Aug 16 Belgian cyclist Georges Ronsse wins men's road race at UCI Road World Championships in Budapest, Hungary
- Aug 25 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
- Aug 27 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
Us Women's Open
Aug 27 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills defeats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6–2, 6–1 for her 5th of 7 US singles crowns
Nehru Requests Independence
Aug 30 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
The Threepenny Opera
Aug 31 Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weil's play with music "The Threepenny Opera" premieres at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
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