Davis Cup
Aug 1 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player to be named in the US Davis Cup team
- Aug 1 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
- Aug 1 Germany FR annexes Elten village
- Aug 1 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Aug 2 30th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17, 65,000 at Soldier Field
- Aug 3 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
No Strings
Aug 3 Richard Rodgers' musical drama "No Strings", starring Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, closes at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 580 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
- Aug 3 Warner Bros. Records releases single of Allan Sherman's novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)", set to music of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from his 1876 opera "La Gioconda"
- Aug 5 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
Sports History
Aug 5 Craig Breedlove sets world land speed record of 407.477 mph in Spirit of America at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
- Aug 6 Philadelphia NBA franchise changes name from 'Nationals' to the '76ers', based on US Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776
Event of Interest
Aug 7 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
- Aug 8 Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
- Aug 8 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie", radio stations label it obscene
- Aug 8 Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ
- Aug 9 Britains rock TV show "Ready Steady Go", premieres
- Aug 9 NY Met pitcher Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends with a complete game 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds, NYC
- Aug 11 Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa
- Aug 11 Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
- Aug 12 Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
Sports History
Aug 12 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
Sports History
Aug 13 Dave DeBusschere pitches a shutout against the Cleveland Indians
- Aug 13 US Customs agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Sports History
Aug 13 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1st Black Graduate of Ole Miss
Aug 18 James Meredith becomes the 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
- Aug 19 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City, OKlahoma
- Aug 21 Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
- Aug 21 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
- Aug 22 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles)
- Aug 23 Beatles release single "She Loves You" in the UK
- Aug 23 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
- Aug 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 24 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
- Aug 24 24th Venice Film Festival: "Hands Over the City" directed by Francesco Rosi wins Golden Lion
- Aug 24 John Pennel is first person to pole-vault 17'
Music History
Aug 25 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Aug 28 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Baseball Record
Aug 29 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
- Aug 30 Compact audio cassette first introduced by Philips at the Radio Exhibition in Berlin, Germany [1]
- Aug 30 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
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