- Aug 2 MLB conducts the first test of bright yellow baseballs during Dodgers vs Cardinals doubleheader
2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers HR
Aug 7 2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers home run: legendary shortstop Leo Durocher homers off Reds hurler Peaches Davis in 8th inning of a 6-3 win
- Aug 7 Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck university
- Aug 8 6th Venice Film Festival opens
- Aug 8 Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa
- Aug 10 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
- Aug 14 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
- Aug 17 1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland)
- Aug 17 Henry Armstrong wins his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
Lou Gehrig's 23rd Grand Slam
Aug 20 NY Yankees future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & final grand slam in 11-3 win over Philadelphia A's at Shribe Park
- Aug 21 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
You Can’t Take It With You
Aug 23 "You Can’t Take It With You" from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur premieres. Best Picture (1939)
- Aug 23 England score 7-903 declared v Australia, Len Hutton scores 364
- Aug 24 England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
- Aug 24 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
- Aug 26 British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
- Aug 26 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
Pearson No-hits Cleveland
Aug 27 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Cleveland Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples
- Aug 27 Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51
- Aug 28 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
- Aug 28 Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
- Aug 28 On Connie Mack Day at Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
- Aug 31 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
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