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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.
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 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida. August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania , between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
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.
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)
August 2. National Coloring Book Day. National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. August 3. Clean Your Floors Day. National Watermelon Day. August 4. National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. National White Wine ...
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.