Music History
Aug 3 Jeff Baxter, guitarist and founding member of Steely Dan quits the band and joins the Doobie Brothers
Little Night Music
Aug 3 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music" closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 601 performances, winning 6 Tony Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards, and a Grammy
Event of Interest
Aug 5 US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
- Aug 6 Explosion and fire destroy Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Washington
- Aug 7 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
- Aug 8 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day
Richard Nixon's Resignation Letter
Aug 9 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President
- Aug 11 Coup in East-Timor under UDT
- Aug 11 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
PGA Championship
Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Tanglewood Park: Lee Trevino wins the first of his 2 PGA C'ships, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Jack Nicklaus
Baseball Record
Aug 12 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
Hall of Fame
Aug 12 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates inducted to hall of fame on same day
- Aug 14 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
- Aug 14 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
- Aug 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 14 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 15 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Aug 15 Hurricane and floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
- Aug 15 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours or 52 days)
- Aug 15 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination attempt
Pussy Cats
Aug 19 RCA records releases "Pussy Cats", the tenth album by American singer Harry Nilsson in the US; album was produced by John Lennon and Nilsson worked through a serious vocal chord injury which diminished his vaunted range
- Aug 20 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
- Aug 20 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
Music History
Aug 23 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
- Aug 23 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
- Aug 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Aug 25 LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
- Aug 26 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
- Aug 27 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
- Aug 28 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
- Aug 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Aug 30 Express train runs at full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153
- Aug 30 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
- Aug 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 31 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen, Neteherlands harbor
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