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| August Observances: | poster links | resource links | ||
| National Immunization Month | health posters | National Partnership for Immunization | ||
| National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month | MS Explained poster | Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy | ||
| National Water Quality Month | water posters | EPA | ||
| First Week of August | ||||
| World Breastfeeding Week | Nursing Mother, Cassatt | La Leche League | ||
| National Clown Week | National Clown Week | |||
| Second Week of August | ||||
| Tolkien Conference -50th Anniv. 2005 | Tolkien Society | |||
| Third Week of August | ||||
| Fourth Week of August | ||||
| August Holidays | ||||
| 8-26, Women's Equality Day | Pioneers Women's Rights posters | |||
| August Notable Dates | ||||
| b. 8-1-1770 - William Clark, explorer | William Clark print | William Clark Resource File | ||
| b. 8-1-1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, zoologist | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck portrait | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Resource File | ||
| b. 8-1-1779 - Francis Scott Key, lyrcist | Star Spangled Banner poster | Fort McHenry National Park | ||
| b. 8-1-1818 - Maria Mitchell - astronomer | Maria Mitchell poster | Maria Mitchell Resource File | ||
| b. 8-1-1819 - Herman Melville - author | Herman Melville posters | CP Links for Learning - Melville | ||
| b. 8-2-1871 - John F. Sloan, artist | John Sloan print | John F. Sloan Resource File | ||
| b. 8-2-1924 - James Baldwin, author | James Baldwin posters | CP Links for Learning - Baldwin | ||
| b. 8-2-1942 - Isabel Allende, author | Isabel Allende posters | CP Links for Learning - Allende | ||
| 8-3-1841 - Juliana Horatia Ewing, author | Juliana Horatia Ewing print | Juliana Horatia Ewing Resource File | ||
| b. 8-3-1893 - Huey P. Long, politician | Huey P. Long print | Huey P. Long Resource File | ||
| b. 8-4-1859 - Knut Hamsun, author | Knut Hamsun print | Knut Hamsun Resource File | ||
| b. 8-4-1901 - Louis Armstrong, musician | Louis Armstrong posters | CP Links for Learning - Armstrong | ||
| b. 8-5-1815 - John Edward Eyre, explorer | John Edward Eyre print | John Edward Eyre Resource File | ||
| b. 8-5-1850 - Guy de Maupassant, author | Guy de Maupassant print | Guy de Maupassant Resource File | ||
| b. 8-5-1946 - Shirley A. Jackson - physicist | Shirley A. Jackson poster | Shirley A. Jackson Bio- buffalo.edu | ||
| b. 8-5-1930 - Neil Armstrong - astronaut | Astronaut posters | NASA Biography | ||
| d. 8-6-1585 - Yermak Timofeyevich, explorer | Yermak print | Yermak Resource File | ||
| b. 8-6-1809 - Alfred, Lord Tenneyson, poet | Alfred, Lord Tenneyson poster | Alfred, Lord Tenneyson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-6-1881 - Dr. Alexander Fleming, physician and researcher | Alexander Fleming print | Alexander Fleming Resource File | ||
| b. 8-6-1911 - Lucille Ball - actress | Lucille Ball posters | Museum TV | ||
| b. 8-6-1928 - Andy Warhol, artist | Andy Warhol "Marilyn" print | Andy Warhol Resource File | ||
| 8-6-1945 - US Drops A-Bomb on Japan | WWII posters | City of Hiroshima Peace Ceremony | ||
| b. 8-7-1876 - Mata Hari, femme fatale & spy | Mata Hari print | Mata Hari Resource File | ||
| b. 8-7-1867 - Emil Nolde, artist | Expressionists prints | Emil Nolde Resource File | ||
| b. 8-7-1903 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat | Ralph Bunche poster | Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey | ||
| b. 8-8-1763 - Charles Bulfinch, architect | Charles Bulfinch print | Charles Bulfinch Resource File | ||
| b. 8-8-1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet | Shelley print | Percy Bysshe Shelley Resource File | ||
| b. 8-8-1866 - Matthew Henson, explorer | Matthew Henson print | Matthew Henson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-8-1902 - Paul Dirac, physicist | Paul Dirac print | Paul Dirac Resource File | ||
| b. 8-9-1593 - Izaak Walton, author | Izaak Walton print | Izaak Walton Resource File | ||
| b. 8-9-1819 - W. T. G. Morton, dentist | W. T. G. Morton print | W. T. G. Morton Resource File | ||
| 8-10-1821 - Missouri admitted to the Union, 24th | Missouri posters | Missouri Facts | ||
| b. 8-10-1874 - Herbert Hoover, US President | presidents posters | White House Bio - Hoover | ||
| b. 8-11-1921 - Alex Haley, author | Alex Haley print | Alex Haley Resource File | ||
| d. 8-12-30 BC - Cleopatra | Cleopatra print | Cleopatra Resource File | ||
| b. 8-12-1774 - Robert Southey, poet | Robert Southey print | Robert Southey Resource File | ||
| b. 8-12-1866 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, dramatist | Jacinto Benavente y Martinez print | Jacinto Benavente y Martinez Resource File | ||
| b. 8-12-1867 - Edith Hamilton, author | Edith Hamilton photo | Edith Hamilton Resource File | ||
| b. 8-12-1887- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist | Erwin Schrödinger print | Erwin Schrödinger Resource File | ||
| b. 8-13-1912 - Salvador Luria, biologist | Salvador Luria print | Salvador Luria Resource File | ||
| b. 8-13-1918 - Frederick Sanger, biologist | Frederick Sanger print | Frederick Sanger Resource File | ||
| 8-14-1935 - Social Security Act | aging & maturity anatomy posters | Social Security Online | ||
| 8-14-1945 - Japan Surrenders | WWII posters | |||
| b. 8-14-1959 - Magic Johnson, basketball player | Magic Johnson photo | Magic Johnson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-15-1771 - Sir Walter Scott - author | Walter Scott Print | Sir Walter Scott Digital Library | ||
| b. 8-15-1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor- poet | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor print | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Resource File | ||
| b. 8-15-1912 - Julia Child, chef | Julia Child TIME Magazine print | Julia Child Resource File | ||
| b. 8-16-1744 - Pierre Mechain, astronomer | Pierre Mechain print | Pierre Mechain Resource File | ||
| b. 8-16-1888 - T. E. Lawrence, author | T. E. Lawrence print | T. E. Lawrence Resource File | ||
| b. 8-17-1601 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician | Pierre de Fermat print | Pierre de Fermat Resource File | ||
| b. 8-17-1786 - Davy Crockett - frontiersman | Explorer posters | Davy Crockett Bio | ||
| b. 8-17-1871 - Orville Wright - inventor | Wright Bros posters | NASA History of Flight | ||
| b. 8-17-1887 - Marcus Garvey - activist | Marcus Garvey posters | CP Links for Learning - Marcus Garvey | ||
| b. 8-17-1887 - Mae West, actress | Mae West print | Mae West Resource File | ||
| b. 8-18-1750 - Antonio Salieri, composer | Antonio Salieri print | Antonio Salieri Resource File | ||
| b. 8-18-1774 - Meriwether Lewis, explorer | Meriwether Lewis print | Meriwether Lewis Resource File | ||
| b. 8-18-1934 - Roberto Clemente, baseball player | Roberto Clemente poster | Roberto Clemente Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1646 - John Flamsteed, astronomer | John Flamsteed print | John Flamsteed Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1689 - Samuel Richardson, author | Samuel Richardson print | Samuel Richardson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1883 - Leonid Kulik, explorer | Leonid Kulik print | Leonid Kulik Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1902 - Ogden Nash, poet | Ogden Nash print | Ogden Nash Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor | Philo T. Farnsworth Inventions poster | Philo T. Farnsworth Resource File | ||
| b. 8-19-1946 - Bill Clinton, US President | presidents posters | Bill Clinton Biography - White House | ||
| d. 8-20-1643 - Anne Hutchinson, theologian | Anne Hutchinson print | Anne Hutchinson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-20-1779 - Jons Jakob Berzelius, scientist | Berzelius print | Jons Jakob Berzelius Resource File | ||
| b. 8-20-1827 - Joseph Strauss, composer | Joseph Strauss poster | Joseph Strauss Resource File | ||
| b. 8-20-1843 - Christina Nilsson, opera singer | Christina Nilsson print | Christina Nilsson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-20-1833 - Benjamin Harrison, US President | presidents posters | Benjamin Harrison Biography | ||
| b. 8-20-1910 - Eero Saarinen, architect | Eero Saarinen print | Eero Saarinen Resource File | ||
| b. 8-21-1904 - Count Basie - musician | Musician posters Count Basie bookmark |
Count Basie Biography Count Basie Resource File |
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| 8-21-1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player | Wilt Chamberlain photo | Wilt Chamberlain Resource File | ||
| 8-21-1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th state | Hawaii posters | Hawaii Facts | ||
| b. 8-22-1822 - Virginia Poe, wife E.A.P. | Virginia Poe print | Virginia Poe Resource File | ||
| b. 8-22-1862 - Claude Debussy, composer | Claude Debussy print | Claude Debussy Resource File | ||
| b. 8-22-1893 - Dorothy Parker, author | Dorothy Parker book cover poster | Dorothy Parker Resource File | ||
| b. 8-22-1920 - Ray Bradbury, author | Ray Bradbury poster | Ray Bradbury Resource File | ||
| b. 8-23-1741 - Comte de La Pérouse, explorer | La Pérouse print | La Pérouse Resource File | ||
| b. 8-23-1769 - Georges Cuvier, zoologist | Georges Cuvier poster | Georges Cuvier Resource File | ||
| b. 8-23-1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, composer | Moszkowski print | Moszkowski Resoruce File | ||
| b. 8-23-1912 - Gene Kelly, dancer & actor | Gene Kelly print | Gene Kelly Resource File | ||
| b. 8-23-1944 - Antonia Novello, MD | Antonia Novello poster | Antonia Novello Resource File | ||
| 8-23-1966 - 1st Photo of Earth from Moon | Earth posters | NASA Photo Gallery | ||
| b. 8-24-1484 - Bartolome de las Casas, historian | Bartolome de las Casas print | Bartolome de las Casas Resource File | ||
| b. 8-24-1552 - Lavinia Fontana, artist | Lavinia Fontana print | Lavinia Fontana Resource File | ||
| b. 8-24-1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, author | Jorge Luis Borges poster | Jorge Luis Borges Bio | ||
| b. 8-25-1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher | Johann Gottfried Herder print | Johann Gottfried Herder Resource File | ||
| b. 8-25-1836 - Bret Harte, author | Bret Harte print | Bret Harte Resource File | ||
| b. 8-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein, composer | Leonard Bernstein print | Leonard Bernstein Resource File | ||
| b. 8-25-1927 - Althea Gibson, athlete | Althea Gibson poster | Althea Gibson Resource File | ||
| b. 8-26-1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, scientist | Antoine Lavoisier print | Antoine Lavoisier Resource File | ||
| b. 8-26-1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, author | Guillaume Apollinaire print | Guillaume Apollinaire Resource File | ||
| b. 8-27-551 BC - Confucius - philosopher | China posters | CIA World Fact Book | ||
| b. 8-27-1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher | Hegel portrait | Hegel Resource File | ||
| b. 8-27-1865 - Charles G. Dawes, Nobel Peace Prize 1929 | Charles G. Dawes TIME Magazine cover | Charles G. Dawes Resource File | ||
| b. 8-27-1886 - Eric Coates, composer | Eric Coates print | Eric Coates Resource File | ||
| b. 8-27-1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President | presidents posters | Lyndon Baines Johnson Bio | ||
| b. 8-27-1910 - Mother Teresa, Skopje, Macedonia | Mother Teresa posters | CP Links for Learning - Mother Teresa | ||
| b. 8-28-1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, philosopher, author & scientist | Goethe print | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Resource File | ||
| b. 8-28-1828 - Leo Tolstoy - author | Leo Tolstoy print | Leo Tolstoy Biography | ||
| 8-28-1565 - St. Ausgustine, FL established | Florida posters | City of St. Augustine Official site | ||
| 8-28-1963 - MLKing, Jr. - "I Have A Dream" Speech, Washington, D.C. | Martin Luther King posters | CP Links for Learning - MLKing, Jr. | ||
| b. 8-29-1632 - John Locke, philosopher | John Locke portrait | John Locke Resource File | ||
| b. 8-29-1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet & physician | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. posters | CP Links for Learning - O. W. Holmes | ||
| b. 8-29-1809 - Ingrid Bergman | Ingrid Bergman, Art Print | Ingrid Bergman Resource File | ||
| b. 8-29-1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, author, Nobel Literature 1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck, print | Maurice Maeterlinck Resource File | ||
| b. 8-29-1920 - Charlie Parker, musician | Charlie Parker posters | CP Links for Learning - Parker | ||
| 8-29-2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall | Hurricane posters | |||
| b. 8-30-1797 - Mary Shelly, author (nee Wollestonecraft Godwin) |
Mary Shelly print | Mary Shelly Resource File | ||
| b. 8-30-1855 - Evelyn de Morgan, artist | Evelyn de Morgan print | Evelyn de Morgan Resource File | ||
| b. 8-30-1871 - Ernest Rutherford, scientist | Ernest Rutherford print | Ernest Rutherford Resource File | ||
| b. 8-31-1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, composer | Amilcare Ponchielli print | Amilcare Ponchielli Resource File | ||
| b. 8-31-1870 - Maria Montessori, educator | Maria Montessori posters | CP Links for Learning - Montessori | ||
| b. 8-31-1936 - Marva Collins, educator | Marva Collins poster | Marva Collins’ Way at Amazon.com | ||
| August Facts & Tidbits | ||||
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| Astrological Signs | Astrology Resource File | |||
 • Leo: July 23 - August 22 |
• Leo poster • Leo, the Lion Ecard |
fixed, fire, social; "I am," passionate, dramatic, independent, noble, creative, leader, egotistical, heart/back; generous, proud, theatrical. | ||
| • Virgo: August 23 - September 22 |
• Virgo poster • Virgo, the Virgin Ecard |
mutable, air, social; "I serve," practical, work and service oriented, critical, common sense, intelligent, health conscious, fussy, intestines/ digestion; practical, efficient, critical. | ||
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• Birthstones: Univ of Washington • Peridot Resource File • Jade Resource File • Sardonyx Resource File |
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