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Month August 1888 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

  • August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

    August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1888

  • Day of Week 5th » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • Day of Week 21st » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs I or William Seward Burroughs.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1888

  • 5th » Victor Francen, Belgian-French actor (d. 1977)
  • 6th » Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (d. 1952)
  • 10th » Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (d. 1940)
  • 13th » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the History of television known as television (d. 1946)
  • 13th » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
  • 16th » T. E. Lawrence, Welsh colonel (d. 1935)
  • 16th » Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1943)
  • 17th » Monty Woolley, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
  • 20th » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd List of Presidents of Vietnam named President of Vietnam (d. 1980)
  • 29th » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)

Famous Deaths for August 1888

  • 5th » Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant (b. 1846)
  • 16th » John Pemberton, American chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
  • 22nd » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician (b. 1817)
  • 24th » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
  • 28th » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
  • 31st » Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)

Calendar for the year 1888 and a calender for the month of August

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