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Holidays & Observances This Month
1 August
Francis Scott Key's Birthday
Celebrate the birth of the author to The Star Spangled Banner.
4 August
Coast Guard Day
The Coast Guard was established on this day in 1790
19 August
National Aviation Day
Celebrate the Freedom of Flight while we honor those that made it possible.
27 August
Mother Teresa's Birthday
No matter your religious affiliation, celebrate the birth of this remarkable woman born on this day in 1910.
This Month in History
1 August
1498 - Christopher Columbus landed on mainland America but, thinking it was an island, called it Isla Santa.
1798 - The British fleet under Lord Nelson defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, thwarting Napoleon's conquest of the Middle East.
1976 - The 21st Olympic Games in Montreal ended on this date. They were the most expensive and controversial in Olympic history. Thirty-two nations withdrew from the games, six East European athletes defected to Canada, a Soviet athlete was dismissed for cheating, three other participants were disqualified for steroid use, and a Soviet sprinter reported a death threat.
4 August
1693 - It is believed that a monk named Dom Perignon invented champagne at the Benedictine Abbey of Hautvillers in the region of Champagne, northern France. He made the first champagne by re-fermenting a certain wine in the spring and then placing it in strong, sealed bottles so that the wine would become sparkling. Dom Perignon was the Cellar master for 47 years until his death in 1715.
1892 - Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, but acquitted at trial.
1997 - North Korea handed over the remains of four United States soldiers killed during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
19 August
1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrived in Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France.
1856 - In Brooklyn, New York, Gail Borden patented his process for condensed milk. Borden’s is still in business and is one of the largest dairy product concerns in the world.
1991 - In a military coup that shook the world, a coalition of hard-line communists removed Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup came partly as a result of Gorbachev's willingness to sign a treaty that would give substantial autonomy to different Soviet Republics. Due to massive public resistance, the conspirators gave up a few days after the coup had started. Boris Yeltsin, at the time Russian president, vehemently opposed the coup.
27 August
1626 - In the Thirty Years War, a force of Imperialists under Count Tilly heavily defeated a force of Germans and Danes under Christian IV at the battle of Lutter am Barenberge in Germany.
1883 - After several months of smaller eruptions, the Indonesian volcanic island Krakatau (between Java and Sumatra) erupted in a cataclysmic explosion that has been considered one of the most powerful in recorded history. The island exploded with the force of 100 megatons (the Hiroshima bomb was about 20 kilotons). The eruption generated tsunami waves that reached speeds of 400 mph (640 kph).
1972 - United States warplanes bombed North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong for the first time.
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Words to Remember "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it.
But, in the end, there it is."- Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ...Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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