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August 7 is the 219th day of the year ... California. [19] 1927 – The ... This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, ...
August 8 is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) ... New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
On This Day; BBC: On This Day; The New York Times: On This Day; Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History
In California and in most states, the right to vote followed the granting of citizenship. A few states continued to deny suffrage, with Utah contesting Native American suffrage until as late as 1962.
During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday. 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
For the first time in over two decades, some of the highest peaks across California's Sierra Nevada could see snow in August. The unusually strong, early season storm is bringing fall-like weather ...