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, 1989
Day of Week 2nd » Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
Day of Week 5th » General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
Day of Week 7th » U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-Texas named TX) and 15 others die in a Aviation accidents and incidents called plane crash in Ethiopia.
Day of Week 8th » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
Day of Week 18th » Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
Day of Week 19th » President of Poland Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity (Polish trade union) Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-Communism communist prime minister in 42 years.
19th » Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Netherlands called Dutch governments.
19th » Several hundred East Germany named East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Berlin Wall The Fall named Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Day of Week 20th » The pleasure boat Marchioness disaster e.g 'Marchioness' sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
Day of Week 22nd » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
Day of Week 23rd » Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
Day of Week 24th » Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Government of Colombia e.g Colombian government.
24th » Cincinnati Reds Manager (baseball) called manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner of Baseball (MLB) known as Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
24th » Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central Europe or Central and Eastern Europe.
Day of Week 25th » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.