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, 1991
Day of Week 4th » The Greek cruise ship Ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Eastern Cape Wild Coast of South Africa.
Day of Week 6th » Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Day of Week 8th » The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
Day of Week 19th » Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Judaism Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn Crown Heights in New York City New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
Day of Week 20th » Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood.
Day of Week 21st » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
Day of Week 23rd » Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
Day of Week 24th » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
24th » Ukraine Declaration of Independence of Ukraine e.g declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
Day of Week 25th » Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
25th » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
Day of Week 27th » The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
27th » Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union e.g USSR.
Day of Week 29th » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
29th » Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
Day of Week 31st » Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.