August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which started in March about 735 BC under Romulus. It became the eighth month either when January and February were added to the beginning of the year by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC or when those two months were moved from the end to the beginning of the year by the decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers disagree). It was renamed in honor of Augustus in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, fell in this month.
August's flower is the gladiolus or poppy.
In the pagan wheel of the year August begins at or near Lughnasadh in the northern hemisphere and Imbolc in the southern hemisphere.
In Finnish, the month is called elokuu, meaning "month of reaping" or literally, "month of life".
In Polish, the month is called sierpień, meaning "month of sickle".
August 1, 2009, Russia signs a deal to open a second military base in Kyrgyzstan at a Collective Security Treaty Organisation summit. (AP)
August 1, 2009, The trial of 30 protesters in Iran who demonstrated in protests after the disputed presidential election begins. (Press TV)
August 1, 2009, North Korea says a South Korean fishing boat it seized "illegally" entered its waters. (Yonhap)
August 1, 2009, Rare Buddhist treasures, buried in the 1930s during Mongolia's Communist purge, are unearthed in the Gobi Desert. (BBC)
August 2, 2009, Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami critizes the "show trial" of election protestors currently underway in the country. (Press TV)
August 2, 2009, One person is killed and 75 injured after an outdoor stage collapses at the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival in Alberta, Canada. (CBC)
August 2, 2009, Nine families who have been living in East Jerusalem since 1956 are evicted by force. (Al Jazeera)
August 2, 2009, Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760, a Twin Otter plane with 16 on board, disappears over Papua, Indonesia. (Japan Today)
August 2, 2009, Two newly discovered works by Mozart—a prelude and concerto movement—are performed in Salzburg, Austria. (BBC)
August 2, 2009, A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS is discovered in a woman from Cameroon. (MSNBC)
August 2, 2009, Hundreds of firefighters on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands are continuing to battle wildfires. (The Times)
August 2, 2009, Around 2700 people are evacuated as 530 forest fires burn in British Columbia, Canada. (The Age)
August 2, 2009, The remnants of Michael Scott Speicher, the first United States Gulf War casualty, are located in the Al Anbar Governorate desert. (The Irish Times)
August 2, 2009, The 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation.
August 3, 2009, Tax revenues biggest drop since great depression(Huffpost) - Jump Fool(The Blob)
August 3, 2009, Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hits western Mexico. (USGS)
August 3, 2009,Obama/Joker poster popping up in LA.(Drudge Report)(The Sirius Fool)
August 3, 2009, Antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds(Drudge)
August 3, 2009, Malaria linked to chimps.(CNN)
August 3, 2009, Continental Airlines Flight 128, from Rio de Janeiro to Houston, makes an emergency landing in Miami after severe turbulence, injuring dozens. (New York Daily News)
August 3, 2009, Iran is reportedly ready to build a nuclear weapon, according to Western intelligence services. (The Times)
August 3, 2009, Barclays posts a profit of £2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008. (Sky News)
August 3, 2009, Somali pirates release a Malaysian tugboat with 11 Indonesian crew after being held for more than seven months. (Reuters)
August 3, 2009, The Washington Post newspaper in the United States reports that officials are considering a plan to move Guantánamo Bay detainees to a prison camp. (RTÉ)
August 3, 2009, An Australian radio show is axed and presenter Kyle Sandilands sacked from a television show after a lie detector stunt sees a 14-year-old girl say she was raped so her mother could claim Pink tickets. (Bangkok Post)
August 3, 2009, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, President Barak Obama's 48th "Birth"day.
"Most High"
August 4, 2009, Release of Tantric Album Mind Control
August 4, 2009, Former United States President Bill Clinton arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea, and secures the freedom of two detained American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, In a phone conversation, the Russian and U.S. Presidents discussed the situation in Georgia and “the need to decrease tensions in the region,” the White House said. (Civil)
August 4, 2009, Russia has established combat readiness of its troops in the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia due to the strained situation (Rustavi 2)
August 4, 2009, Georgia urges the United States and the European Union to help avert a new war with Russia, as tensions escalate ahead of the first anniversary of the 2008 South Ossetia war. (AFP via Google News)
August 4, 2009, 5,300 people flee flames which thousands of firefighters fight in British Columbia. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, Bangkok Airways Flight PG 266 crashes into a disused control tower at Samui Airport on the island of Ko Samui, Thailand, killing at least one person. (Bangkok Post)
August 4, 2009, UBS remains cautious about its prospects after client withdrawals spurred by protracted U.S. tax litigation drags the Swiss bank into another big quarterly loss. (Reuters)
August 5, 2009, Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims': Erik Prince, chief executive of Blackwater, has seen allegations made against him by two former employees(Time)
Galactic Center/Bigfoot/ X marks the spot
August 5, 2009,Fourteen people are shot at a women's dance class in LA Fitness gymnasium in Collier Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Three women die, as does the gunman. (BBC News)
August 5, 2009, The 40th Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting opens in Cairns, Australia. (RNZI)
Palm/Phoenix
August 5, 2009, Part-nationalised lender Lloyds Banking Group reports pre-tax losses of £4bn for the first half of this year. (Sky News)
August 5, 2009, Two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been detained by North Korea, travel back to the United States with former President Bill Clinton hours after being pardoned. (CNN)
August 5, 2009, Murdoch vows to charge for all online content.(FT)
August 5, 2009, At the XXI Annual Meeting of the Council of Managers of Antarctic Programs, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Chuck Kennicut, emphasizes the importance ”to produce a comprehensive dialogue in the Antarctic community about the role of international cooperation in the optimization of national resources, mainly for economic reality". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially sworn in as President of Iran for a second term. (Press TV)
August 5, 2009, The United States White House defends its decision to award its Presidential Medal of Freedom to former First Female President of Ireland Mary Robinson. (Irish Examiner)
August 5, 2009, The funeral of Corazon Aquino, the first female President of Asia and the Philippines, takes place in the Philippines. (CNN)
August 5, 2009, Brazilian President Lula da Silva says his country is “now advising the International Monetary Fund, IMF”. (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Bolivian President Evo Morales expresses concern in La Paz about the possibility that the “Pinochetistas” in Chile and the “fascist right” in Argentina could win the general elections in those countries and that it "would be very serious for Latin American democracy and for South America". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Iraq's government announces that all Bremer walls will be removed from Baghdad within forty days. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, A dog featured in an American film called I Love You, Man, which was named after assassinated Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, leads to a court case as bloggers complain that their country has been insulted. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Eight people are injured when an Airbus A320 plane catches fire on one of its engines at Paris-Orly Airport. The fire is quickly brought under control. (Reuters)
August 5, 2009, Ireland's Health Service Executive threatens several pharmacies with High Court injunctions if they do not adhere with their contracts to dispense drugs(Rx). (The Irish Times)
August 5, 2009, A Chinese teenager sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation camp is allegedly beaten to death by its counsellors. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Romanians who fled Belfast following racist attacks return to Northern Ireland. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Belgian Justice Minister Stefan de Clerck is attacked for allowing a dramatic jailbreak which sees three men with criminal records on trial in Brussels escape with the assistance of accomplices. The escape follows the helicopter breakout of three inmates, including one of Belgium's most dangerous criminals, and the ladder breakout of six more convicts all in the space of twelve days. (Deutsche Welle)
August 5, 2009, Former Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa is indicted in a bribes case. (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Former Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands Timothy P. Villagomez is sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption. (Sapain Tribune)
August 5, 2009, Jury convicts ex-Congressman William Jefferson of 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racketeering and money laundering, after feds find $90G in his freezer.(Fox)
August 6, 2009, Japan calls for a nuclear-weapons-free world as it marks 64 years since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack. (RTÉ)
*Up to 50,000 people, including officials and visitors from countries around the world, attend a memorial service in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park built directly below the point where the bomb exploded. (Al Jazeera)
*Speaking at the ceremony, Mayor of Hiroshima Tadatoshi Akiba supports a call by United States President Barack Obama for the abolition of nuclear weapons. (The Guardian)
*A poll finds 61% of Americans believe their country was correct to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Reuters India)
August 6, 2009,Brazil returns 1.500 tonnes of syringes, condoms and dirty nappies which were sent from the United Kingdom. (MercoPress)
August 6, 2009, Micro-blogging website Twitter is knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service attack targetted at a Georgian blogger. (RTÉ)
August 6, 2009, The Iraqi cabinet agrees a draft law to restrict smoking in public places and ban tobacco advertising. (BBC)
August 6, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed by the United States Senate as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, replacing David Souter. (Reuters)
August 6, 2009, Scientists say they have decoded the entire genetic structure of HIV-1—the main cause of AIDS in humans. (BBC)
August 7, 2009, Release of G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra
August 7, 2009, Release of Cold Souls
August 7, 2009, Release of Perfect Getaway
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which started in March about 735 BC under Romulus. It became the eighth month either when January and February were added to the beginning of the year by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC or when those two months were moved from the end to the beginning of the year by the decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers disagree). It was renamed in honor of Augustus in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, fell in this month.
August's flower is the gladiolus or poppy.
In the pagan wheel of the year August begins at or near Lughnasadh in the northern hemisphere and Imbolc in the southern hemisphere.
In Finnish, the month is called elokuu, meaning "month of reaping" or literally, "month of life".
In Polish, the month is called sierpień, meaning "month of sickle".
August 1, 2009, Russia signs a deal to open a second military base in Kyrgyzstan at a Collective Security Treaty Organisation summit. (AP)
August 1, 2009, The trial of 30 protesters in Iran who demonstrated in protests after the disputed presidential election begins. (Press TV)
August 1, 2009, North Korea says a South Korean fishing boat it seized "illegally" entered its waters. (Yonhap)
August 1, 2009, Rare Buddhist treasures, buried in the 1930s during Mongolia's Communist purge, are unearthed in the Gobi Desert. (BBC)
August 2, 2009, Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami critizes the "show trial" of election protestors currently underway in the country. (Press TV)
August 2, 2009, One person is killed and 75 injured after an outdoor stage collapses at the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival in Alberta, Canada. (CBC)
August 2, 2009, Nine families who have been living in East Jerusalem since 1956 are evicted by force. (Al Jazeera)
August 2, 2009, Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760, a Twin Otter plane with 16 on board, disappears over Papua, Indonesia. (Japan Today)
August 2, 2009, Two newly discovered works by Mozart—a prelude and concerto movement—are performed in Salzburg, Austria. (BBC)
August 2, 2009, A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS is discovered in a woman from Cameroon. (MSNBC)
August 2, 2009, Hundreds of firefighters on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands are continuing to battle wildfires. (The Times)
August 2, 2009, Around 2700 people are evacuated as 530 forest fires burn in British Columbia, Canada. (The Age)
August 2, 2009, The remnants of Michael Scott Speicher, the first United States Gulf War casualty, are located in the Al Anbar Governorate desert. (The Irish Times)
August 2, 2009, The 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation.
August 3, 2009, Tax revenues biggest drop since great depression(Huffpost) - Jump Fool(The Blob)
August 3, 2009, Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hits western Mexico. (USGS)
August 3, 2009,Obama/Joker poster popping up in LA.(Drudge Report)(The Sirius Fool)
August 3, 2009, Antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds(Drudge)
August 3, 2009, Malaria linked to chimps.(CNN)
August 3, 2009, Continental Airlines Flight 128, from Rio de Janeiro to Houston, makes an emergency landing in Miami after severe turbulence, injuring dozens. (New York Daily News)
August 3, 2009, Iran is reportedly ready to build a nuclear weapon, according to Western intelligence services. (The Times)
August 3, 2009, Barclays posts a profit of £2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008. (Sky News)
August 3, 2009, Somali pirates release a Malaysian tugboat with 11 Indonesian crew after being held for more than seven months. (Reuters)
August 3, 2009, The Washington Post newspaper in the United States reports that officials are considering a plan to move Guantánamo Bay detainees to a prison camp. (RTÉ)
August 3, 2009, An Australian radio show is axed and presenter Kyle Sandilands sacked from a television show after a lie detector stunt sees a 14-year-old girl say she was raped so her mother could claim Pink tickets. (Bangkok Post)
August 3, 2009, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, President Barak Obama's 48th "Birth"day.
"Most High"
August 4, 2009, Release of Tantric Album Mind Control
August 4, 2009, Former United States President Bill Clinton arrives in Pyongyang, North Korea, and secures the freedom of two detained American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, In a phone conversation, the Russian and U.S. Presidents discussed the situation in Georgia and “the need to decrease tensions in the region,” the White House said. (Civil)
August 4, 2009, Russia has established combat readiness of its troops in the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia due to the strained situation (Rustavi 2)
August 4, 2009, Georgia urges the United States and the European Union to help avert a new war with Russia, as tensions escalate ahead of the first anniversary of the 2008 South Ossetia war. (AFP via Google News)
August 4, 2009, 5,300 people flee flames which thousands of firefighters fight in British Columbia. (BBC)
August 4, 2009, Bangkok Airways Flight PG 266 crashes into a disused control tower at Samui Airport on the island of Ko Samui, Thailand, killing at least one person. (Bangkok Post)
August 4, 2009, UBS remains cautious about its prospects after client withdrawals spurred by protracted U.S. tax litigation drags the Swiss bank into another big quarterly loss. (Reuters)
August 5, 2009, Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims': Erik Prince, chief executive of Blackwater, has seen allegations made against him by two former employees(Time)
Galactic Center/Bigfoot/ X marks the spot
August 5, 2009,Fourteen people are shot at a women's dance class in LA Fitness gymnasium in Collier Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Three women die, as does the gunman. (BBC News)
August 5, 2009, The 40th Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting opens in Cairns, Australia. (RNZI)
Palm/Phoenix
August 5, 2009, Part-nationalised lender Lloyds Banking Group reports pre-tax losses of £4bn for the first half of this year. (Sky News)
August 5, 2009, Two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been detained by North Korea, travel back to the United States with former President Bill Clinton hours after being pardoned. (CNN)
August 5, 2009, Murdoch vows to charge for all online content.(FT)
August 5, 2009, At the XXI Annual Meeting of the Council of Managers of Antarctic Programs, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Chuck Kennicut, emphasizes the importance ”to produce a comprehensive dialogue in the Antarctic community about the role of international cooperation in the optimization of national resources, mainly for economic reality". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially sworn in as President of Iran for a second term. (Press TV)
August 5, 2009, The United States White House defends its decision to award its Presidential Medal of Freedom to former First Female President of Ireland Mary Robinson. (Irish Examiner)
August 5, 2009, The funeral of Corazon Aquino, the first female President of Asia and the Philippines, takes place in the Philippines. (CNN)
August 5, 2009, Brazilian President Lula da Silva says his country is “now advising the International Monetary Fund, IMF”. (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Bolivian President Evo Morales expresses concern in La Paz about the possibility that the “Pinochetistas” in Chile and the “fascist right” in Argentina could win the general elections in those countries and that it "would be very serious for Latin American democracy and for South America". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Iraq's government announces that all Bremer walls will be removed from Baghdad within forty days. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, A dog featured in an American film called I Love You, Man, which was named after assassinated Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, leads to a court case as bloggers complain that their country has been insulted. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Eight people are injured when an Airbus A320 plane catches fire on one of its engines at Paris-Orly Airport. The fire is quickly brought under control. (Reuters)
August 5, 2009, Ireland's Health Service Executive threatens several pharmacies with High Court injunctions if they do not adhere with their contracts to dispense drugs(Rx). (The Irish Times)
August 5, 2009, A Chinese teenager sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation camp is allegedly beaten to death by its counsellors. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Romanians who fled Belfast following racist attacks return to Northern Ireland. (BBC)
August 5, 2009, Belgian Justice Minister Stefan de Clerck is attacked for allowing a dramatic jailbreak which sees three men with criminal records on trial in Brussels escape with the assistance of accomplices. The escape follows the helicopter breakout of three inmates, including one of Belgium's most dangerous criminals, and the ladder breakout of six more convicts all in the space of twelve days. (Deutsche Welle)
August 5, 2009, Former Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa is indicted in a bribes case. (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Former Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands Timothy P. Villagomez is sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption. (Sapain Tribune)
August 5, 2009, Jury convicts ex-Congressman William Jefferson of 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racketeering and money laundering, after feds find $90G in his freezer.(Fox)
August 6, 2009, Japan calls for a nuclear-weapons-free world as it marks 64 years since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack. (RTÉ)
*Up to 50,000 people, including officials and visitors from countries around the world, attend a memorial service in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park built directly below the point where the bomb exploded. (Al Jazeera)
*Speaking at the ceremony, Mayor of Hiroshima Tadatoshi Akiba supports a call by United States President Barack Obama for the abolition of nuclear weapons. (The Guardian)
*A poll finds 61% of Americans believe their country was correct to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Reuters India)
August 6, 2009,Brazil returns 1.500 tonnes of syringes, condoms and dirty nappies which were sent from the United Kingdom. (MercoPress)
August 6, 2009, Micro-blogging website Twitter is knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service attack targetted at a Georgian blogger. (RTÉ)
August 6, 2009, The Iraqi cabinet agrees a draft law to restrict smoking in public places and ban tobacco advertising. (BBC)
August 6, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed by the United States Senate as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, replacing David Souter. (Reuters)
August 6, 2009, Scientists say they have decoded the entire genetic structure of HIV-1—the main cause of AIDS in humans. (BBC)
August 7, 2009, Release of G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra
August 7, 2009, Release of Cold Souls
August 7, 2009, Release of Perfect Getaway
August 7, 2009, Release of Paper Heart.
August 7, 2009, White House Warns Rush: Nazi talk put you on thin ice(Huffpost)(LA)
Rush Limbaugh Compares 3rd Reich Black Eagle/Phoenix/Sun too Baraks Caduceus/Rising Sun Logo
Past week Nazi References:
August 7, 2009, According to both Pakistani officials and Taliban insurgents, Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed in a drone strike. (New York Times)
August 7, 2009, Ronnie Biggs, one of the participants of the Great Train Robbery is to be freed on medical grounds this morning. (UK Guardian)
August 7, 2009, White House Move to Collect 'Fishy' Info May Be Illegal, Critics Say"(Fox)
August 7, 2009, Forty years on, Beatles fans flock to Abbey Road crosswalk(Yahoo)
August 7, 2009, Xbox signed by Sarah Palin listed for over $1 million(Yahoo)
Got loads of spare cash and a profound love of all things Sarah Palin? Then feast your eyes on the Holy Grail: an Xbox 360 autographed by the former Governor of Alaska herself, which just hit eBay with a starting price of -- hold on to your pipelines -- a cool $1.1 million. And that's not including the obscene $75 shipping flat rate. The costly console (a standard Pro model, by the way, normally retailing for $299.99) was purportedly signed by Palin at the Wasilla Governor's Picnic on July 24, 2009 (just two days before Palin's resignation). And if the price is right, the listing claims "you can own this 60GB, perfect-condition, one-of-a-kind item before her expected run for president of the United States of America in 2012."
August 7, 2009, Cassini Spacecraft Spots New Object in Saturn’s Rings(Wired)
August 8, 2009, Birthplace of Roman emperor Vespasian found in Italy(Yahoo)
ROME – Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling country villa believed to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum, they said Friday. The 2,000-year-old ruins were found about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of Rome, near Cittareale, lead archaeologist Filippo Coarelli said.
August 8, 2009, Tragedy on the Hudson
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October 24, 2008, Jennifer Hudsons Mother, Brother, Nephew Fatally Shot(Chicago)
January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549(US Bird/Eagle/Phoenix) was a commercial passenger flight that ditched in the Hudson (North) River with all 155 on board surviving.
February 12, 2009, The United States National Transportation Safety Board concludes that Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into New York City's Hudson River.
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August 8, 2009, The second hearing in the trial of Iranian election protesters resumes. (Al Jazeera)
August 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor sworn in to the United States Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts.
August 9, 2009, United States First Solar powered Tower goes live(Huffpost)
August 9, 2009, Banks make 48 billion in overdraft fees.
August 9, 2009, A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits Tokyo and eastern Japan. (Nikkei)
August 9, 2009, A million people are evacuated in southeastern China as Typhoon Morakot approaches. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 10, 2009, The interim government in Honduras agrees to accept a delegation from the Organization of American States to help solve the political crisis in the country. (AFP)
August 10, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI triggers a “scandalous poverty” debate in Argentina, with Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli preparing to meet with all Catholic bishops of his area. (MercoPress)
August 10, 2009, The head of Hyundai Asan, embarks on a mission to North Korea to attempt to secure the release of a company worker. (BBC)
August 10, 2009, More than 350 new species—including 244 plants and 16 amphibians—are discovered in the Eastern Himalayas.
August 10, 2009, The head of MI6 John Scarlett denies complicity in the alleged torture of British detainee Binyam Mohamed, as the government rejects calls for an inquiry. (BBC)
August 11, 2009, Release of Queen Latifah Album Persona.
August 11, 2009, release of Cobra Starship Album Hot Mess.
August 11, 2009,
August 11, 2009, President of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez is diagnosed with Influenza AH1N1 but his condition is stable, according to official reports. (ANSA)
August 11, 2009, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, dies aged 88. (BBC)
August 11, 2009, Two strong earthquakes hit Asia; a 7.6 magnitude quake off the Indian Andaman Islands and a 6.5 magnitude quake in the Tokyo area of Japan, killing one and injuring dozens. (Press Association)
August 11, 2009, A German court sentences former Nazi army commander Josef Scheungraber to life in prison for his role in the murder of 10 Italians in Tuscany in 1944. (RTÉ)
August 11, 2009, Thousands of people worship a baby born with four arms and four legs in Ramechhap, Nepal, revering him as the reincarnation of Ganesh. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2009, Nine corpses are recovered from a Handlová coal mine following a fire and explosion in Slovakia. (Irish Independent)
August 11, 2009, The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope finds evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star. (BBC)
August 11, 2009, A Russian woman is arrested after throwing a teacup at the Mona Lisa portrait in the Louvre, Paris. (Irish Independent)
August 11, 2009, Nepenthes attenboroughii, a new species of giant carnivorous plant, is discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, It is discovered that the Killer Whale creates and visits social clubs in Russia. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, The wreckage of an Airlines PNG De Havilland Twin Otter 300 plane carrying 11 passengers and 2 crew is found near Isurava, Papua New Guinea; there are no signs of survivors. (Al Jazeera)
August 12, 2009, The Roman Catholic Church is expresses "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, Astronomers discover WASP-17b, the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric.
(Yahoo)
August 12, 2009, German Jews Want 'Mein Kampf' Reprinted(Huffpost)
August 13, 2009, More than 80 years after it was first published --and later outlawed-- in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" was sold Thursday for 21,000 pounds ($34,900)(Huffpost)
August 13, 2009, Guitar, studio wizard Les Paul dies at 94(CNN)
August 13, 2009, Michael Vick signs 2 year contract with Philadelphia Eagles(Espn)
August 14, 2009, Release of District 9.
District 9 is a science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp.It takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa. District 9 is based on Alive in Joburg, a short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, and stars Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley.
August 14, 2009, Release of It Might get Loud.
It Might Get Loud is a documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. It explores the history of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and styles of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White.
August 14, 2009, Release of Ponyo.
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August 14, 2009, Hans Christian Ørsted Birthday.
He was a physicist and chemist who is most widely known for observing that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century.
August 14, 2009, Michael Jackson in Deep Freeze.
August 14, 2009, Bailout = Buyout
August 14, 2009, Pakistan celebrates its 62nd Independence Day; Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul. (BBC)
August 14, 2009, An archaeological excavation uncovers the foundations of the 17th-century Smock Alley Theatre and several artefacts from theatrical performances in Dublin. (RTÉ)
August 14, 2009, Lynette Fromme, a former member of the Manson family, is released after serving 34 years in prison. (ABC News)
August 14, 2009, The United Kingdom imposes direct rule on the Turks and Caicos Islands after an inquiry found evidence of government corruption. (BBC)
August 15, 2009, Hong Kong posts 3.3% growth over its previous quarter, far exceeding predictions, signaling an end to its recession. (The Straits Times)
August 15, 2009, Colombia claims to have completed talks with the United States to allow its troops to use seven of its military bases. (BBC)
August 15, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks at a news conference to say his country will crack down on organised crime over the next four years. (The Straits Times)
August 16, 2009, A 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurs near Siberut Island, Sumatra, Indonesia, at 14:38 local time, injuring at least seven people.(France24.com)
August 16, 2009, Two Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets collide during a test flight southeast of Moscow, killing one pilot. (RIA Novosti)
August 16, 2009, Tropical Storm Claudette becomes the first tropical cyclone to affect the U.S. mainland in 2009. (Weather.com)
August 17, 2009, Fla. population drops for 1st time since 1946(Myway)
August 17, 2009, Madonna makes a splash on her 51st birthday(Mail)
August 17, 2009, Building block of life found on comet(Breit)
August 17, 2009, (Huffpost)
August 17, 2009, Japan officially exits the recession. (BBC)
August 17, 2009, Georgia has assessed the construction of a wall along the administrative border of the Abkhazian separatist region as yet another demonstration of Russian occupation of Georgia (Rustavi 2)
August 17, 2009, IBM sees future of microchips in DNA(Breit)
August 17, 2009, Coroner: Wild dogs killed Ga. woman, then husband(Breit)
August 17, 2009, Spielberg wins funds to launch new studio(Yahoo)
August 18, 2009, Release of Sean Paul Album Imperial Blaze.
August 18, 2009, Release of 3rd Eye Blind Album Ursa Major.
August 18, 2009, Release of Nathan Maxwell and the Originally Bunny Gang Album White Rabbit.
August 18, 2009, Robert Novak, Long-Time Conservative Columnist, Dies at 78(WashPost)
August 18, 2009, Former South Korean President and 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kim Dae-jung dies of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. (Reuters)
August 19, 2009, Don Hewitt 60 minutes creator dies.
August 19, 2009, The United States and Switzerland sign an agreement designed to end a tax evasion dispute surrounding UBS U.S. customers. (BBC)
August 20, 2009, Usian Bolt sets new world record for 200m, on year anniversary of Olympics.
August 20, 2009, The U.S. federal government announces plans to end the Cash for Clunkers program. (New York Times)
August 20, 2009, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, is released on compassionate grounds due to terminal cancer, and boards a flight to Libya. (BBC)
August 20, 2009, Elizabeth Ramos and Louis Williams admit to bribing an employee of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in exchange for defense contracts. (UPI)
August 21, 2009, Release of Inglorious Bastards
August 21, 2009, Release of 5 Minutes of Heaven
August 21, 2009, Release of Shorts
August 21, 2009, Michael Jackson too be buried on September 3, 2009 instead of August 29; The private ceremony will still take place at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park.(CNN)
-The release date for the movie drawing on Jackson's rehearsal footage was announced Thursday. "Michael Jackson: This Is It" will run in theaters worldwide for two weeks only beginning October 28, according to Sony Pictures.
August 21, 2009, William Calley, the former US army officer found guilty of organizing mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai during the war makes a public apology.(NPR)
August 21, 2009, Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use". (The Times of India)
August 21, 2009, Hawaii commemorates fifty years of U.S. statehood. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
August 22, 2009, Officials from North and South Korea meet for talks for the first time in two years. (BBC)
August 22, 2009, Artificial life will be created 'within months' as genome experts claim vital breakthrough(Dmai)
August 23, 2009, Thousands of people are evacuated as forest fires reach the outskirts of the Greek capital, Athens. (Associated Press)
August 24, 2009, According to court documents, the Los Angeles County coroner's preliminary assessment is that Michael Jackson's death was caused by an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.(Reuters)
August 24, 2009, The district court in Stockholm orders BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's largest ISP, Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic.(CNET News)
August 25, 2009, Release of Collective Soul Album Rabbit
August 25, 2009, Release of Matisyahu Album Light
August 25, 2009, Release of Imogen Heap Album Ellipse.
August 25, 2009, Release of Yung La Album Futuristic Leland.
August 25, 2009, Telescopes 400th yr anniversary.
August 25, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown repeats that the British Government played no role in the release from prison of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, it being a matter for the Scottish parliament. (Daily Telegraph)
August 25, 2009, South Korea successfully launches its first space rocket, Naro-1, orbiting the STSAT-2A satellite. (BBC News)
August 25, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for his second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Bloomberg)
August 25, 2009, The US budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded. (BBC)
August 25, 2009, Senator Teddy Kennedy dies at 77.
August 26, 2009, A revolutionary IVF technique that creates babies with three biological parents has been developed by scientists.
August 26, 2009, Real US unemployment rate at 16 pct: Fed official(Breitbart)
August 27, 2009,English youth Michael Perham, aged 17 years, 5 months, becomes the youngest person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world by sailboat, breaking the previous record by two months. (Reuters)
August 28, 2009, Release of H2
August 28, 2009,Release of The Final Destitation
August 28, 2009, Michael Vick makes his official return to the field.
August 28, 2009, Memorial for Ted Kennedy.
August 28, 2009, Reading Rainbow, the third longest-running children's show on United States public-service television network PBS, ends its 26-year run. (NPR)
August 28, 2009, The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques, but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. (BBC)
August 28, 2009, Japan's unemployment rate reaches a record high of 5.7%. (BBC)
August 28, 2009, The Los Angeles County coroner rules that American entertainer and musician Michael Jackson's death was a homicide caused by acute intoxication from the drug propofol. (Reuters)
August 28, 2009, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi launches legal action against French weekly Nouvel Observateur, Spanish newspaper El País, and Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and has authorized his attorneys to prepare cases against British newspapers, charging the newspapers with libel. (Reuters)
August 28, 2009, NASA launches the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) for a resupply and crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The mission will also deliver the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. This is Discovery's 37th flight and will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first flight during the mission. (AFP)
August 28, 2009, Disc Jockey DJ AM is found dead due to a suspected drug overdose.(CNN)
August 29, 2009, Michael Jackson's Birthday.
August 29, 2009, Ted Kennedy's Funeral.
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August 29, 2009, Chandrayaan-1 loses contact with ground control. (Indian Express)
-Chandrayaan-1, (Sanskrit: चंद्रयान-१, lit: Moon-vehicle) is India's first mission to the Moon launched by India's national space agency the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
August 29, 2009, Noel Gallagher leaves the British rock band Oasis. (The Times)
August 29, 2009, (MSNBC)
August 30, 2009, Drudge Report
August 31, 2009, Britain will face widespread power cuts and rationing of energy(blackouts) in 2019 for the first time since the 1970s, according to Her Majesty's Government. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 31, 2009, Disney reaches a deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment for US$4 billion, with Marvel shareholders being issued $30 and about 0.745 Disney shares for each share of Marvel they own. (Marketwatch)
August 31, 2009, Nigeria charges several banking executives with financial crimes discovered following the $2.6 billion bail-out of five banks. (BBC)
August 31, 2009, Jason Mraz's I'm Yours becomes the longest running single in the Billboard Hot 100's history at 71 weeks on the chart. (Associated Press)
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