6th » Kiowa people called Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous Indian reservation named reservation.
10th » The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike of 1901 known as U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
14th » The first claimed aviation called powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Whitehead No. 21 named Number 21.
28th » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first United States known as American private school named private school in the country.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1901
1st » Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
3rd » John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician (d. 1995)
3rd » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (d. 1981)
4th » Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (d. 1971)
4th » Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
5th » Claude Autant-Lara, French director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2000)
7th » Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
8th » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
9th » Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990)