August 1874 Day Of The Week - 1874 August Calendar Month View

About Month of August Calendar

August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Day of Week 5th » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

5th » Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (d. 1948)
6th » Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932)
8th » Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1948)
9th » Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
9th » Otto Steffen, American gymnast (d. 1957)
10th » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
22nd » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)
26th » Zona Gale, American author and playwright (d. 1938)
27th » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)