- 226th Day of the Year / 139 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 39 Days
- Sunrise:6:25
- Sunset:8:03
- 13 Hours 38 Minutes
- Moon Rise:10:37pm
- Moon Set:11:03am
- Moon’s Phase 78%
- Full Moon August 10 @ 11:10am
- Full Sturgeon Moon
The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
- Tides
- High Tide:1:55am/2:33pm
- Low Tide:8:01am/8:49pm
- Holidays
- Navajo Code Talkers Day
- National Creamsicle Day
- Festival of Hungry Ghosts-China
- Independence Day-Pakistan
- Honey Spas-Russia
- National Flag Day-Paraguay
- International Lizard Day
- On This Day
- 1765 --- A crowd in Boston gathered under a large elm tree to protest the Stamp Act. The 'Liberty Tree' became a rallying point for resistance to British rule over the American Colonies.
- 1784 --- On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founds Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. Russian hunters were soon making incursions into Alaska, and the native Aleut population suffered greatly after
- 1848 --- The Oregon Territory was established by the U.S. Congress. The area included the future states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and parts of Wyoming and Montana.
- 1896 --- Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
- 1880 --- Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, was completed ... only to be damaged again during WWII. The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248. Rebuilding began on this day in 1248.
- 1900 --- During the Boxer Rebellion, an international force featuring British, Russian, American, Japanese, French, and German troops relieves the Chinese capital of Peking after fighting its way 80 miles
- 1919 --- About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
- 1933 --- A devastating forest fire is sparked in the Coast Range Mountains, located in northern Oregon, 50 miles west of Portland. Raging for 11 days over some 267,000 acres, the blaze began a series of fires that struck the region at six-year intervals until 1951 that became known collectively as the Tillamook Burn. The first Tillamook Burn fire—which began around noon on August 14, 1933—was sparked in a logging operation located on the slopes above the North Fork of Gales Creek, west of the town of Forest Grove. An official investigation of the fire found that it stemmed from friction produced when loggers dragged a large Douglas-fir log across a
- 1935 --- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly. Social security was a campaign promise in the 1932 presidential election. Democrats pledged: “We advocate unemployment and old-age insurance under state laws.”
- 1945 --- U.S. President Harry S Truman announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies [WWII]. Thousands thronged into the
- 1953 --- David N. Mullany and his 13-year-old son, David A. Mullany,
- 1956 --- The trademark "Chock Full O' Nuts-The Heavenly Coffee" was registered.
- 1969 --- The New York Mets were 9-1/2 games behind the league-leading Chicago Cubs. The Amazing Mets began a comeback that launched the phrase, “You Gotta Believe,” as they began a drive that
- 1971 --- St. Louis Cardinals ace Bob Gibson throws the first no-hitter of his storied career. Gibson’s heroics helped his team sail to an 11-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- 1980 --- Workers in Gdansk, Poland, seize the Lenin Shipyard and demand pay raises and the right to form a union free from communist control. The massive strike also saw the rise to prominence of labor leader Lech Walesa, who would be a key figure in bringing an end to communist rule in Poland. Gdansk had been a
- 1980 --- People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated.
- 1984 --- IBM released PC-DOS v3.0 for PC/AT (with network support). Remember those AT machines? A 286 processor, 20-30meg hard drive and 256k/512k RAM for somewhere between $6000 and $9000
- 1985 --- Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono for the ATV music-publishing catalog. Jackson paid $47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. In the years afterward, that catalog—now estimated to be worth in excess of $1 billion—allowed Jackson to remain solvent by serving as collateral for several enormous personal loans that funded his extravagant lifestyle through years of low earnings and legal difficulties. In 2008, however, Jackson gave up his remaining interest in the catalog to Sony, one of his primary creditors.
- 1987 --- Mark McGwire set the record for major league home runs by a rookie when he connected for his 39th home run of the season. he eventually ended the season with 49 hr's.
- 2000 --- Police in Los Angeles, fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a crowd of 9,000 people when a free concert by Rage Against the Machine turned violent.
- 2003 --- A major outage knocked out power across the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Beginning at 4:10 p.m. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes. Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New York, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. Although power companies were able to resume some service in as little as two hours, power remained off in other places for more than a day.
- 2009 --- Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.
- Birthdays
- John Brodie
- Halle Berry
- David Crosby
- Steve Martin
- Earvin “Magic” Johnson
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Sarah Brightman
- Gary Larson
- Russell Baker
- Mia Kunis
- Tim Tebow
- Ernest Thayer
- Buddy Greco
- Susan St James
- Danielle Steele