• August is Children's Vision and Learning Month
• August 1 - Colorado became the 38th state in the USA in 1876
• August 2 - Official signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
• August 6 - Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945
• August 9 - Jesse Owen's won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics
• August 12 - Police force was created in the United States in 1658
• August 16 - Sports Illustrated appeared for the first time in 1954
• August 22 - Liquid soap was patented in 1865
• August 25 - National Park Service was created in 1916
• August 28 - Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963                         

                                                              "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."    

~ Eleanore Roosevelt