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August Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California, and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century.
August 3 – The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water. August 12 – The Federal Switchblade Act is enacted in the United States. August 17 – The first Thor-Able rocket is launched, carrying Pioneer 0, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17. The launch fails due ...
August 16 – John Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola (born 1831) August 22 – Charles W. Cathcart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (born 1809) September 30 – Eunice Newton Foote, physicist and women's rights campaigner (born 1819) October 16 – John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago from 1857 to 1858 and 1860 to 1861 ...
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)
1910 – The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. 1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire. 1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435.
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... August 2. National Coloring Book Day. National Ice Cream ...
August 9 – Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers and Indians lose 89 warriors in a U.S. Army victory.
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