History, in any form, is my first love. As far as interests go. I can easily go down a historical rabbit hole before I realize it and get lost in there for hours! So, in honor of one of my favorite things, I’m highlighting some of the game-changing historical events that happened in August.
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1. Hawaii became the 50th State on Aug 21, 1959.
2. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women’s Right to Vote was passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920.
3. Mount Vesuvius Erupts on Aug. 24, A.D. 79.
4. The Voting Rights Act was passed on Aug 6, 1965.
5. The Great Klondike Gold Rush began when gold was discovered in the Klondike region of the Yukon, in north-western Canada, by local miners on August 16, 1896.
6. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug 6, 1945. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later.
7. Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with three small ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria on Aug 3, 1492.
8. Frederick Douglass gave his first anti-slavery speech on August 11, 1841 in Nantucket, MA. The Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society asked him to be a lecturer on this topic and the rest is…well, history.
9. The Loch Ness Monster becomes a worldwide phenomena. In August 1933, a published story documented George Spicer’s account of his Loss Ness Monster sighting. Public, world wide interest in the alleged sea creature grew rapidly generating an increase in sightings.
