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August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. August 7 – George S. Houston is reelected the 24th governor of Alabama defeating Noadiah Woodruff. August 8 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. September 6 – Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed.
Books on the history of the United States: A History of Money and Banking in the United States; A Monetary History of the United States; A Patriot's History of the United States; 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 ...
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
August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States. [1] August 13 – Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. August 27 – Border War; Battle of Ambos Nogales – U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the ...
August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still, "father of osteopathy" (died 1917) August 28 – William A. Hammond, military physician and neurologist, 11th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1864 (died 1900) September 8 Joshua Chamberlain, leader of the 20th Maine during the Civil War, Governor of Maine, President of Bowdoin College (died 1914)
August 11. Play in the Sand Day. National Hip Hop Day. National Raspberry Bombe Day. ... Monthly Observances in August 2023. American Artist Appreciation Month. Black Business Month. Family Fun Month.
August 9 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. August 13 – The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, the country's longest-running African American family owned newspaper business, publishes its first issue (publisher, John H. Murphy, Sr.).
" Many find solace in 9/11 quotes and 9/11 memorial quotes. This year, on the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 tragedy , remember and reflect with these powerful 9/11 quotes .