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).
Historical Events for August, 2003
Day of Week 10th » The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – convert 38.5 °C °F in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over Convert 100 °F °C.
10th » Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
Day of Week 11th » NATO takes over command of the International Security Assistance Force known as peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
11th » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Day of Week 14th » A Northeast blackout of 2003 or widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
Day of Week 19th » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
Day of Week 22nd » Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
Day of Week 25th » The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib people Dogrib First Nations and the Canada Canadian federal government in Behchoko, Northwest Territories Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
Day of Week 27th » Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing convert called 34646418 e.g mi distant.
27th » The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korea and weapons of mass destruction called North Korean nucle
Day of Week 29th » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassination e.g assassinated in a terrorism or terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
Day of Week 30th » While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
Famous Birthdays on August in 2003
24th » Alexandre Coste, French son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
28th » Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress and singer
Famous Deaths for August 2003
1st » Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
1st » Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2nd » Don Estelle, English actor and singer (b. 1933)
2nd » Mike Levey, American television host (b. 1948)
2nd » Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)
3rd » Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
4th » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
6th » Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
7th » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
7th » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929)