Women's British Open
Aug 2 British Open Women's Golf, Turnberry: Inbee Park of South Korea shoots final found 65 (−7) to win her 7th major title, 3 strokes ahead of compatriot Ko Jin-young
Isabel Allende
Aug 3 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama
- Aug 3 The Athens Stock Exchange re-opens after a month and falls by 22%
Clean Power Plan
Aug 3 US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases
- Aug 4 31 people are killed and 100 are injured after floods partially sweep two passenger trains off a bridge in Madhya Pradesh, India
- Aug 4 A plague of locusts in Southern Russia prompts a state of emergency to be declared
- Aug 4 Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter
Robert Downey Jr. Highest Paid
Aug 4 Robert Downey Jr. named the world's highest paid actor by Forbes Magazine (earning $80 mil). 4 non-Hollywood actors make the top 10.
- Aug 5 Fishing boat carrying around 600 migrants sinks of the coast of Libya, 373 rescued
- Aug 5 Torrential rains and flooding leave at least 178 people dead in India, in the wake of Cyclone Komen
Jon Stewart Signs Off
Aug 6 American comedian Jon Stewart hosts late-night talk and satirical news program "The Daily Show" for the last time
- Aug 6 Eqyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurates the Suez Canal Expansion at a ceremony in Ismaïlia
- Aug 6 Republican Presidential nomination race begins with debate between 7 lesser ranked candidates in Cleveland, Ohio
- Aug 6 World's largest ever Pinball tournament Pinburgh with 700 machines held in Pittsburgh
Trump on Megyn Kelly
Aug 7 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
- Aug 8 Argentine winger Juan Imhoff scores 3 tries as Pumas beat South Africa, 37-25 in Rugby Championship match at Durban; Argentina's first ever win against Springboks
Rugby History
Aug 8 Australia clinches first Rugby Championship with 27-19 win over New Zealand in Sydney; All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw equals Irishman Brian O'Driscoll's record for most capped international player (141)
Google Restructures as Alphabet
Aug 10 Google announces its restructure as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries
Greek Bailout Announced
Aug 11 Greek Debt crisis: European Commission announces a bailout with Greece and its creditors has been agreed "in principle"
- Aug 11 Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant restarts the first nuclear reactor since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- Aug 11 Largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York - 12 dead, with over 100 cases in the South Bronx
- Aug 11 Spain's top matador Francisco Rivera Ordóñez Jr. is gored and injured by a bull in Huesca
- Aug 12 China cuts its currency the yuan for the 2nd day in a row to boast exports
Event of Interest
Aug 12 Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer
- Aug 12 In London archaeologists discover a mass grave of 30 bodies from the 1665 plague
- Aug 12 Large series of explosions in Tianjin, China leave at least 50 dead and 700 injured in an industrial accident
Music History
Aug 12 US Postal Service issues a second postage stamp featuring rock singer Elvis Presley, as part of its Music Icon series; design is a black & white photograph taken by William Speer in 1955
- Aug 13 76 people are killed & 212 are wounded by an ISIL truck bomb in Baghdad, Iraq
Event of Interest
Aug 13 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion
- Aug 14 Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center
- Aug 15 North Korea creates its own time zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to GMT+8.5
- Aug 16 'Batman' samaritan Lenny B. Robinson is killed in a car accident in Maryland
PGA Championship
Aug 16 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3 shots
- Aug 17 2012 Olympic 1500m champion from Turkey Asli Cakir Alptekin is stripped of her gold medal for doping by the IAAF
- Aug 17 Bomb blast in Bangkok at Erawan Shrine kills at least 19, injures over 100
- Aug 17 Discovery of 7,000 year old mass grave in Schöneck-Kilianstädten, Central Germany, published in PNAS Journal. 26 bodies bear evidence of violent conflict
- Aug 17 World's first flower could be underwater plant Montsechia Vidalii claim US botanists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Aug 19 US Food and Drug administration approves Female Viagra libido pill Addyi
- Aug 20 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight
- Aug 20 After 108 years a "message in a bottle" put in the sea by UK Marine Biological Association is announced to have been found in April on a beach on the island of Amrum, Germany
- Aug 21 1st British unmanned drone hit on a UK citizen outside a conflict - ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
- Aug 21 European Refugee Crisis: Germany makes it easier for Syrian refugees to claim asylum by suspending their Dublin Regulations
- Aug 21 Terrorist attack on train between Amsterdam and Paris thwarted by 4 passengers overpowering gunman
- Aug 22 15th Athletics World Championships open at Beijing, China
- Aug 22 A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto the A27 dual carriageway road during the Shoreham airshow in Britain killing at least 11
- Aug 23 12-year-old boy trips and rips 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora worth $1.5m at exhibition in Taiwan
Canadian Women's Open
Aug 23 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Vancouver GC: Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins in a playoff with Stacy Lewis for her third success in the event
- Aug 23 Destruction by IS of the 1st century AD temple of Baalshamin in ancient ruins of Palmyra confirmed by Syrian officials
- Aug 23 English Indycar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania
- Aug 24 China stock market's "Black Monday", Shanghai Composite loses 8.5%, sending other international markets lower
Facebook Logs 1 Billion
Aug 24 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook
Hawking's Black Hole Theory
Aug 24 Physicist Stephen Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Aug 26 WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia
The Shepherd's Crown
Aug 27 "The Shepherd's Crown" by Terry Pratchett published by Doubleday, 5 months after the author's death, last book in the Discworld series
Sports History
Aug 27 15th Athletics World Championships: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the men's 200m gold to his 100m win
- Aug 27 Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos names top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou caretaker Prime Minister - Greece's 1st female Prime Minister
- Aug 30 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years
Event of Interest
Aug 30 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad calls for the removal of then Prime Minister Najib Razak during the second day of street protests
Video Music Awards
Aug 30 Rap artist Kanye West announces he will run for President in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards
- Aug 31 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name
- Aug 31 US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change
- Aug 31 Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured
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