Today in History: August Posts | Citizen U Primary Source Nexus

August 1	August 2
1876: Colorado	1924: James Baldwin
August 3	August 4
1492: Christopher Columbus 1923: Calvin Coolidge	1753: George Washington, Master Mason
August 5	August 6
1775: San Francisco, California 1858: Holmes Reaches Pikes Peak	1848: Susie King Taylor 1890: Cy Young
August 7	August 8
1742: Nathanael Greene	1896: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
August 9	August 10
1814: Andrew Jackson	1821: Missouri
August 11	August 12
1911: Duke Kahanamoku – Surfing & Swimming 1934: Alcatraz Island	1877: Thomas A. Edison
August 13	August 14
1942: Memo from Stalin	1848: Oregon Territory
August 15	August 16
1790: John Carroll, First Bishop of Baltimore 1860: Florence Kling Harding	1939: Hippodrome
August 17	August 18
1790: Religious Freedom	1774: Meriwether Lewis (& William Clark)
August 19	August 20
1812: Burning of Washington 1950: Television	1866: Eight-Hour Work Day
August 21	August 22
1912: Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts	1966: Mexican Americans & United Farm Workers of America County & State Fairs
August 23	August 24
1864: Union Captures Fort Morgan	1682: Delaware 1857: Panic of 1857
August 25	August 26
1819: Detective Allan Pinkerton	1791: Federal Patent for Steamboat Awarded
August 27	August 28
1900: Yellow Fever	1917: Picketing for Suffrage 1963: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
August 29	August 30
2005: Hurricane Katrina	1862: Second Battle of Bull Run
August 31
1897: Edison Gets Kinetographic Camera Patent