**July 28, 1945: **A B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building, causing 14 deaths.
July 28th 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
July 29, 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana marry.
July 30, 1945: A few minutes past midnight, a Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis. The incident is remembered in Jaws (with wrong date given).
**July 30, 1928: **George Eastman shows first color motion pictures.
July 31, 1954: K2 is summited for the first time.
**July 31, 1932: **The Washington quarter, designed by John Flanagan, goes into circulation.
August 1, 1966: Mass murderer Charles Whitman kills 16 and wounds another 32 at the University of Texas.
**August 1, 1790: **First U.S. census, population of 3,939,214.
August 1 1936 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
**August 2, 1922 **: A typhoon hits Swatow, China. 60,000-100,000 die.
August 3, 1965: Orange County, California Highway Inspector Rex Heflin photographs a hat-shaped UFO. The pictures are popular among the saucer crowd.
**August 3, 1492: **Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for the “Indies.”
**Same day: **All Jews are expelled from Spain.
August 4, 1892: Allegedly, Lizzie Borden took an axe…
**August 4, 1944: **Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by the Nazis.
August 5, 1962: Marilyn Monroe is found dead next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills.
August 6, 1945: Hiroshima
August 8, 1576 – The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe’s observatory Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven.
August 9, 1945: Nagasaki gets nuked.
EDIT: On a side note, the house where I’m staying in Honolulu for the month of August was at one time owned by US Navy pilot Raymond Waite. He transported the film of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Washington.
8/9/69 - Manson cult kills five people