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What Happened in August — Daily History Calendar
August has 31 days and about 1240 recorded events. Tap any date to open its page.
- 1 August 1 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 2 August 2 At least 146 people are killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 3 August 3 Major floods hit parts of Slovenia. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 4 August 4 Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 5 August 5 Following the non-cooperation movement against the government of Bangladesh, Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees the country, ending her rule of 15 consecutive years and a total of almost two decades. The date is also known as 36 July. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 6 August 6 A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 7 August 7 Debsirin Nonthaburi school shooting 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 8 August 8 Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 9 August 9 Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 crashes near Vinhedo, São Paulo, killing all 62 people on board. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 10 August 10 Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 11 August 11 Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 12 August 12 Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 13 August 13 Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 14 August 14 Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 15 August 15 US president Donald Trump meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the first such summit since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 16 August 16 The August Complex fire in California burns more than one million acres of land. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 17 August 17 A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 18 August 18 One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2). 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 19 August 19 Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 20 August 20 Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 21 August 21 A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 22 August 22 Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 23 August 23 Chandrayaan-3 mission initiates first Moon landing in Indian history. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 24 August 24 Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 25 August 25 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 26 August 26 A series of large flash floods and debris flows along the Nepal–Tibet border and the Trishuli River, believed to have been caused by glacier collapse, stuck and destroyed numerous settlements, including the Gyirong checkpoint, and killed over 1,400 people, with over 5,800 reported missing. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 27 August 27 Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 28 August 28 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 29 August 29 Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 30 August 30 Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousts him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 31 August 31 A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25