- August 2013 #1 August 1st, 1944 Anne Frank penned the last entry into her diary. “[I] keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if…there weren’t any other people living in the world.”
- August 2, 1876 Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game. He was holding two pair of black, aces and 8’s. It is known as a “Dead Man’s Hand”.
- August 7, 1782 President George Washington creates the “Order of the Purple Heart”.
- August 9, 1974 President Richard M. Nixon becomes the first and still only president to resign while in office.
- August 23, 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first picture of Earth from the moon.
- August 29, 1964 Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins is released.
- Mary Poppins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zAbQ0aMK8
- I told myself I wasn’t going to mention it. So, this is me not mentioning August 6 and August 9, 1945:http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/hiroshim/hiro_med.html
