Historical Events
Battle of Mobile Bay
Aug 5 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)
- Aug 5 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
- Aug 6 Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell in Mobile Bay, Alabama
- Aug 7 Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia
- Aug 8 Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
- Aug 8 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
- Aug 9 Siege of Fort Morgan, Alabama, by Union forces begins (Confederates surrender 23 August)
- Aug 13 Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill, Virginia
- Aug 14 -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
- Aug 14 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
- Aug 15 US Civil War: Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 Yankee schooners
- Aug 16 Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
- Aug 16 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
- Aug 18 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
- Aug 18 Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of a 3 day battle
- Aug 19 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, Union forces attempt to destroy Weldon Railroad Confederate supply route (successful 21 Ausgust)
- Aug 20 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3,900 casualties)
- Aug 21 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
- Aug 21 Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, Kentucky
- Aug 21 Battle of Summit Point, Virginia
- Aug 21 Major General Nathan B. Forrest's assault on Memphis, Tennessee
First Geneva Convention
Aug 22 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations
- Aug 23 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
- Aug 25 Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Ream's Station
- Aug 25 Combination rail & ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda
- Aug 29 British astronomer William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
- Aug 31 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, 1900 casualties
Famous Birthdays
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936)
Aug 11 Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mournies, Chania, Crete, Ottoman Empire
- Aug 16 Ferdinand C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx), born in Altona, Holstein, German Confederation (d. 1937)
- Aug 23 Eleftherios K. Venizalos, Premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32), born in Mournies, Greece (d. 1936)
- Aug 31 Max Wilhelm Zach, Polish-American violinist and conductor (Boston Symphony 1896-1907; St. Louis Symphony, 1907-21), born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1921)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 5 Griffin A. Stedman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 26
- Aug 7 Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
- Aug 12 Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
- Aug 15 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
- Aug 16 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 31
- Aug 16 Victor Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 27
- Aug 20 Daniel Chaplin, US Union brigadier general, dies
- Aug 20 John H Kelly, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
- Aug 21 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 24
- Aug 31 Ferdinand Lassalle, French socialist and political activist (Allgemeiner), dies at 39
