August

[RCMerchant]

Not only was I born this month-which is the best thing that ever happened to me-theses things also happened!

H.P. Lovecraft was born the same day as me! Aug.20th! Except I wasn't born in 1890.
The Manson family killed Sharon Tate and alot of other people on August 9th and 10th in 1969.
The atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th and the Nagasaki bomb on the the the 9th in 1945.
Elvis died on Aug.16th, 1977.
Groucho Marx died on Aug.19,1977
Bela Lugosi died on Aug.16th,1956
Karl and Roberta Noble- the parents of my first girl friend,were murdered on Aug.28., 2002.

[ER]

Wonder if Groucho just didn't want to live in a world without Elvis?

[Trevor]

Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 

[claws]

Today's Birthday:  Melissa McCarthy 
Died on this day: Tex Avery (1980) Tobe Hooper (2017)

August 26: Go Topless Day (variously known as National Go Topless Day, International Go Topless Day) is an annual event held to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. Topless freedom laws are celebrated and protests are held in states where topless women are prohibited.

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was first celebrated in 1973 and is proclaimed each year by the United States President.

[Ticonderoga 64]

August 4, 1892: The date the infamous ax murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place in Fall River, Massachusetts. Daughter Lizzie was charged but found not guilty, however, still remains the prime suspect to this day.

[Trevor]

August 9 is National Women's Day in South Africa.

[ER]

Some years ago I invented an annual August event called Dog Days' Night when I'd invite people over to sit up and watch the Perseids, swim all night if they wanted to look for shooting stars from the pool, stay up and have the survivors breakfast at dawn, then crash. A few years we had big events with a lot of guests and saw scores of meteors but it's dwindled with children and etc and this yesr I stayed outside mostly alone.

[Pacman000]

This month was added to the calendar to please Cesar Augustus; July was added to please Cesar Julius.

That's why we have a 12 month calendar instead of a 10 month one.

[indianasmith]

This month was added to the calendar to please Cesar Augustus; July was added to please Cesar Julius.

That's why we have a 12 month calendar instead of a 10 month one.

Technically, the months were named for those two leaders, but they were actually added to bring Rome's chaotic ten month calendar permanently in line with the seasons.  Supposedly, the Pontifex Maximus was to add months whenever the calendar got too far out of whack, but that was rarely done, so putting the extra months in fixed that problem.  Julius Caesar did it, hence the "Julian Calendar."

[Svengoolie 3]

Today's Birthday:  Melissa McCarthy  
Died on this day: Tex Avery (1980) Tobe Hooper (2017)

August 26: Go Topless Day (variously known as National Go Topless Day, International Go Topless Day) is an annual event held to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. Topless freedom laws are celebrated and protests are held in states where topless women are prohibited.

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was first celebrated in 1973 and is proclaimed each year by the United States President.

Tobe Hooper died?  Damn,  I liked lifeforce...

My mother's birthday is August. 26.

[RCMerchant]

Jack Kirby was born on August 28th, 1917. A great influence on my own art.