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, 1903
Day of Week 2nd » Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Empire e.g Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
Day of Week 3rd » Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization e.g Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Empire known as Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
Day of Week 18th » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Day of Week 29th » The ship Russian battleship Slava 2, the last of the five sclass- Borodino battleships, is launched.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1903
1st » Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
3rd » Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st List of Presidents of Tunisia known as President of the Republic of Tunisia (d. 2000)
7th » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)