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1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations. 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
August 27 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (died 1973) August 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, naturalist, artist and educator (died 1996) August 30 – Fred MacMurray, actor (died 1991) August 31 – William Saroyan, fiction writer (died 1981)
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. August 7 – George S. Houston is reelected the 24th governor of Alabama defeating Noadiah Woodruff. August 8 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. September 6 – Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed.
August 6 – Thomas Seay is reelected the 27th governor of Alabama defeating W. T. Ewing. August 10 – Lynching of Amos Miller: 23-year-old African American farmhand Amos Miller is hanged by a mob from the balcony of Williamson County Courthouse (Franklin, Tennessee). August 25 – William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces. Turnip Day Session – Truman exhorts 80th United States Congress to pass legislation; July 31: At Idlewild Field in New York City, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
August 4 – Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1937 to 1940 (died 1940) August 13 – Harold Clarke Goddard, Shakespearean scholar (died 1950) August 28 – George Whipple, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died 1976) August 31 – Frank Jarvis, track athlete (died 1933) September 14
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