- Aug 1 6th Athletics World Championships open at Athens, Greece
- Aug 3 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Glen Abbey GC: Colleen Walker wins by 2 shots from Liselotte Neumann of Sweden
- Aug 3 Manchester United beats Chelsea 4-2 on penalties to win the Charity Shield, after a bad-tempered 1-all draw at Wembley
- Aug 3 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
- Aug 3 Sky Tower opens in Auckland, New Zealand, at 328 metres (1,076 ft) the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere
- Aug 4 "The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show" premieres on Fox TV
- Aug 4 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
- Aug 4 In Colombia, international oil company Occidental Petroleum declare force majeure on all oil exports from the Cano Limon field after a series of attacks knocked out a major oil pipeline
Elle Macpherson
Aug 4 William Ryan Holt and Michael Mischler are arrested for breaking into Elle Macpherson’s Los Angeles home
- Aug 5 Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
- Aug 5 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
- Aug 5 Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
- Aug 6 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
- Aug 6 Newly established NHL franchise Nashville Predators name Barry Trotz as inaugural coach; lasts 15 seasons and 1,196 regular season games
Sri Lanka's Record Innings
Aug 6 Sri Lanka slams world record 952 for 6 in the 1st cricket Test against India in Colombo; Sanath Jayasuriya 340, Roshan Mahanama 225 - record partnership 576
Garth Brooks' Plays Central Park
Aug 7 Garth Brooks performs a free concert in NYC's Central Park for HBO, later releasing it as Garth: Live from Central Park
- Aug 7 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
- Aug 7 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
- Aug 8 Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox
- Aug 8 The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
Just to See You Smile
Aug 9 "Just to See You Smile" single released by Tim McGraw (Billboard Song of the Year 1998)
- Aug 9 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
- Aug 9 Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
- Aug 10 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
- Aug 10 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
Greg Maddux Signed
Aug 10 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to then record 5 year, $57.5 million deal
- Aug 11 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
South Park
Aug 13 Animated TV sitcom "South Park" debuts on Comedy Central
- Aug 13 Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
Baseball Trade
Aug 13 San Diego Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
Event of Interest
Aug 14 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death by Oklahoma Court of Appeals
- Aug 14 Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776", featuring Brent Spiner, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 333 performances
- Aug 14 Soyuz TM-25 lands
- Aug 15 Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
- Aug 15 Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
Dodgers Retire #2
Aug 15 Los Angeles Dodgers retire manager Tommy Lasorda's #2
- Aug 16 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
- Aug 16 New Zealand beats Australia, 36-24 in Dunedin to retain the Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer lands 5 penalties and 3 conversions; halftime NZ, 36-0
- Aug 16 The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
PGA Championship
Aug 17 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Davis Love III wins his only major title by 5 strokes from Justin Leonard
Sports History
Aug 19 NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
- Aug 19 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
- Aug 20 Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 20 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- Aug 21 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
- Aug 21 US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
- Aug 24 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
- Aug 24 Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
- Aug 25 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
Word Gets Around
Aug 25 Welsh rock band Stereophonics release their debut studio album "Word Gets Around"
- Aug 26 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed
- Aug 27 54th Venice Film Festival: "Hana-bi" directed by Takeshi Kitano wins Golden Lion
- Aug 28 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
- Aug 29 At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- Aug 29 Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
- Aug 30 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
- Aug 30 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
- Aug 31 "Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
Event of Interest
Aug 31 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
Sports History
Aug 31 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
- Aug 31 Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
- Aug 31 Last episode of Rolanda airs
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