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1779 – Francis Scott Key, author of the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", is born.; 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts when white Irish Catholics attack 1,000 African-American members of the Young Men's Vigilant Association who were parading in celebration of the end of slavery in the British West Indies.
August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians. August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant.
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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August 8 – Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (died 1918) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (died 1959) August 20 – Ralph Budd, railroad president (died 1962) August 27 – Otis F. Glenn, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959) August 28 – Sydney Ayres, silent film actor (died 1916)
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 9 – The abolitionist Free Soil Party is founded by former president, Martin Van Buren in Buffalo, New York. August 14 – Oregon Territory is established. August 19 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in ...