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Circular CL/3494 of 29 July 1998, from the Director-General invited Ministers of Culture to promote the day. [2] The date is significant because, during the night of 22 August to 23 August 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti ), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the ...
The International Energy Agency increases its 2023 forecast for global oil demand to a potential all-time annual high of 102.2 million barrels per day. (AFP via TRT World) Disasters and accidents. 2023 heat waves. 2023 European heat waves. Valencia, Spain, sets a new temperature record of 46.8 °C (116.2 °F) recorded at the Valencia Airport.
Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th-century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see Julian calendar).
It is an extension of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, held annually on September 23. [2] The celebration promotes cultural acceptance of the bisexual community, as well as attempts to create a platform for advocating bisexual rights. [2] [3] According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, bisexuals represent approximately 40% of the LGBTQ community. [4]
Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (AUC 708), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, the month was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus . [ 5 ] According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius , he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the ...
August 19 is the 231st day of the ... that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the ... actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023) [60]
August 3 is the 215th day of the year ... The tallest free-standing structure in the ... 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer and actor (d. 2023) [50] 1926 ...
AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile.; 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.