Historical Events
- Aug 1 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 149 performances
- Aug 1 British pop-reggae band UB40 deported from Seychelles after being arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession
- Aug 1 Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
- Aug 1 Soyuz TM-10 launches
- Aug 2 23rd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Holiday Inn
- Aug 2 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
Bush Orders Troops to Saudi Arabia
Aug 2 US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia
- Aug 2 Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas hits his 10th MLB homer in 6-5 loss v Detroit, fastest to reach that mark, just 77 at bats
- Aug 3 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK record)
A Little Night Music
Aug 3 New York City Opera's limited run production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater, NYC, for 11 performances
- Aug 3 NY Yankees rookie 1st baseman Kevin Maas sets a MLB record for hitting 10 home runs in the fewest at bats (72)
- Aug 3 Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
- Aug 3 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
- Aug 4 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temperature in Netherlands)
- Aug 4 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 6 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
Event of Interest
Aug 6 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
- Aug 6 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
Operation Desert Shield
Aug 7 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield
- Aug 8 Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
Baseball Record
Aug 8 Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
- Aug 8 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
- Aug 9 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
- Aug 9 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 launches
- Aug 10 NASA's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
- Aug 10 The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
- Aug 11 ArenaBowl IV, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Detroit Drive beats Dallas Texans 51-27, Art Schlichter MVP
- Aug 11 Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
- Aug 12 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
Event of Interest
Aug 12 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
PGA Championship
Aug 12 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Shoal Creek: Wayne Grady of Australia wins his only major title by 3 strokes from American Fred Couples
Music History
Aug 13 American soul singer Curtis Mayfield becomes paralyzed from neck down after stage lighting equipment falls on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York; although unable to perform live, he continued to compose, sing, and record
Baseball Record
Aug 15 Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
- Aug 15 Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
- Aug 16 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Aug 16 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
Event of Interest
Aug 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto
Exorcist 3
Aug 17 "Exorcist 3" film written and directed by William Peter Blatty, premieres
- Aug 17 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
Sports History
Aug 17 Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
- Aug 19 Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
- Aug 20 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
Sports History
Aug 20 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
- Aug 20 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
- Aug 20 NY Yankee Kevin Maas is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
- Aug 22 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves
- Aug 23 Armenia declares independence
- Aug 23 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
- Aug 23 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
- Aug 24 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
- Aug 24 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
- Aug 25 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
- Aug 25 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
- Aug 26 2 murdered college students found in Gainesville, Florida
Baseball Record
Aug 26 Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
No Fences
Aug 27 "No Fences" second studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1991)
- Aug 27 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
- Aug 27 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
- Aug 27 Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.
- Aug 27 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
Big US Open Upset
Aug 28 #1 seed Stefan Edberg loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. Open history
Baseball Record
Aug 28 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
- Aug 28 F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
- Aug 29 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13
- Aug 29 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
- Aug 30 Tatarstan announces its sovereignty with the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
Sports History
Aug 31 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored
- Aug 31 Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
- Aug 31 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Landry Allbright, American actress (Bridget Forrester in Bold & Beautiful), born in San Dimas, California
- Aug 2 Alice Connor, British actress, born in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- Aug 3 Jourdan Dunn, British model, born in London, England
- Aug 5 Patrick Reed, American golfer (US Masters 2018), born in San Antonio, Texas
- Aug 6 Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen (murdered in 1996)
- Aug 8 Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricketer (batsman and captain of NZ), born in Tauranga, New Zealand
- Aug 9 Adelaide Kane, Australian actress (Reign), born in Claremont, Australia
- Aug 10 Lucas Till, American actor (MacGyver), born in Fort Hood, Texas
- Aug 12 Mario Balotelli, Italian soccer striker (36 caps; Nice, Inter, Man City), born in Palermo, Italy
DeMarcus Cousins (33 years old)
Aug 13 American basketball player (Sacramento Kings, New Orleans Pelicans), born in Mobile, Alabama
- Aug 14 Jaydee Bixby, Canadian country singer-songwriter (Cowboys And Cadillacs), born in Drumheller, Alberta
Jennifer Lawrence (33 years old)
Aug 15 American actress (Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook), born in Louisville, Kentucky
- Aug 16 Rina Sawayama, Japanese-British singer-songwriter (Sawayama), born in Niigata, Japan
- Aug 17 Colin Bates, American-British actor, dancer, and singer (Billy Elliot - The Musical), born in Pasedena, California
- Aug 17 Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress (Clique), born in London, England
- Aug 20 Öykü Karayel, Turkish actress (Kuzey Güney), born in Istanbul, Turkey
- Aug 20 Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch-Javanese Surinamese swimmer (Olympic gold 2008, 12), born in Sauwerd, Netherlands
- Aug 21 Bo Burnham, American comedian, singer and filmmaker (All Eyes on Me), born in Hamilton, Massachusetts
- Aug 24 Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress (The Great Gatsby; Widows; Tenet), born in Paris, France
- Aug 26 Lil' Chris [Hardman], British rock singer ("Checkin' It Out"), born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (d. 2015)
- Aug 27 Tori Bowie, American athlete (Olympic gold 4×100 m relay, silver 100m, bronze 200m 2016; World C'ship gold 100m, 4x100m relay 2017), born in Sand Hill, Mississippi (d. 2023)
- Aug 28 Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer, born in Linyola, Spain
- Aug 28 Sam Garret, British singer-songwriter, born in Derbyshire, England
- Aug 29 Sam Stern, British chef and author, born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Famous Weddings
- Aug 11 "General Hospital" actor Maurice Benard (27) weds Paula Smith
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Lotta Hitschmanova, Canadian humanitarian (founder of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada), dies at 80 [1]
- Aug 1 Norbert Elias, German-British sociologist and philosopher (Process of Civilization), dies at 93
- Aug 2 Edwin Richfield, British actor (Interpol Calling, The Avengers), dies at 68
- Aug 2 Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
- Aug 5 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
- Aug 6 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
- Aug 6 Gordon Metcalfe, American actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
- Aug 6 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and Minister of Information (Free French forces), dies at 78
- Aug 6 Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician who founded the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), dies at 62
- Aug 6 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
- Aug 7 Eva Sully Block, American vaudeville actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88
- Aug 8 Andrzej Dobrowolski, Polish classical and experimental composer, dies at 68
- Aug 9 Dorothy Appleby, American actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies at 84
- Aug 9 Joe Mercer, English soccer midfielder (5 caps; Everton, Arsenal) and manager (Manchester City, Aston Villa, England 1974), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 76
- Aug 10 Cookie Lavagetto, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star 1938-41; Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers) and manager (Washington Senators 1957-61), dies at 77
- Aug 10 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
- Aug 12 B. Kliban, American cartoonist known for his drawings of cats, usually with horrible puns (Love to Eat Them Mousies), dies at 55
- Aug 12 Dorothy Mackaill, British-American actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
- Aug 12 Piotr Perkowski, Polish composer, dies at 89
- Aug 12 Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
- Aug 13 Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
- Aug 14 Chester Zardis, American jazz 'slap-style' double-bassist, dies at 90
- Aug 15 Lew DeWitt, American country singer and composer (Statler Brothers - "Flowers on the Wall"), dies of Crohn's disease complications at 52
- Aug 15 Nina Bara [Frances Bauer], Argentinian actress (Missile to the Moon, Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 70
- Aug 15 Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (Kino), dies in a car accident at 28
- Aug 16 Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- Aug 17 Pearl Bailey, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress, singer and dancer (Hello, Dolly!), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Aug 17 Roderick Cook, English actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
- Aug 18 B F Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
- Aug 18 Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
- Aug 18 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), dies at 64
- Aug 19 Anna Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, Dutch children's book writer, dies at 80
- Aug 20 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist and writer, dies at 90
- Aug 22 "Boogie" Bill Webb, American Louisiana blues and R&B guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Bad Dog"), dies at 66
- Aug 22 Merlin Marston, American actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 46
- Aug 22 Thomas W. McKnew, American President of the National Geographic Society, dies at 94
- Aug 23 David Rose, American Emmy Award-winning composer ("The Stripper"; "Holiday For Strings"), and orchestra leader (The Red Skelton Show), dies at 80
- Aug 24 Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese writer and poet (b. 1931)
- Aug 24 Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer, dies at 48
- Aug 25 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and radio personality, dies at 87
- Aug 26 Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (discovered 12 comets), dies at 77
- Aug 26 Roh Ogura, Japanese composer and writer, dies at 74
- Aug 27 Raymond St Jacques, American actor, director and producer, who was the 1st African-American to hold a regular role in a western series (Simon Blake in "Rawhide"), dies of cancer at 60
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990)
Aug 27 American blues guitarist (Texas Flood; "Pride And Joy"; David Bowie - "Let's Dance"), dies in a helicopter crash at 35
- Aug 28 Larry Jackson, American baseball pitcher (5 × MLB All-Star; MLB wins leader 1964; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies), dies from cancer at 59
- Aug 28 Pamela Harrison, British concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
- Aug 28 Patience Strong [Winifred Emma May], English poet and journalist, dies at 83
- Aug 28 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies at 77
- Aug 29 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
- Aug 30 Edmund G. Love, American historian and author (A Small Bequest, Subways Are for Sleeping), dies at 78
- Aug 31 Johnny Lindsay, South African cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests, 5 dismissals; North Eastern Transvaal), dies at 81
- Aug 31 Nathaniel Clifton "Sweetwater", American NBA player (NY Knicks), dies of a heart attack at 65
