- Aug 7 60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
- Aug 10 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
- Aug 11 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
- Aug 13 Roller derby is born when the Transcontinental Roller Derby begins at the Chicago Coliseum
- Aug 14 Social Security Act becomes law
- Aug 20 Military coup by General Pons & President Ibarra in Ecuador
- Aug 26 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
- Aug 29 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
- Aug 31 1st national skeet championship in Indianapolis
- Aug 31 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
- Aug 31 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
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