The Astronomical Netherlands Satellite was launched. It was an x-ray and ultraviolet telescope.
The Final Jeopardy category for August 24 2010 was Astronomy
August 2, 1810 occurred on a Thursday.
38.8°C which occurred in August.
Hiroshima - August 6 1945 Nagasaki - August 9 1945
August 62 was Second Bull Run. August 63 was (I think) Chickamauga. August 64 was Kennesaw and Atlanta.
There was 1 Friday the 13th in 1993. It was the 13th of August.
On the 2nd of August, 1790 the first US Census in history occurred.
That event happened on August 6, 1945.
Robot Astronomy Talk Show - 2008 Back in Time 2-3 was released on: USA: 24 August 2009 (internet)
The Battle of Thermopylae occurred , approximately , August or September 480BC .
On August 28, 1934 Yisrayl Abel Hawkins was born.
The first astronomer in space was Robert A.R. Parker. He was selected as an astronaut in August 1967 and first flew on STS-9 which launched on Novemeber 28th, 1983. He received a Bachelor of science in astronomy and physics from Amherst College, 1958 and a PH.D from CalTech in 1962