Happy Liechtensteiner Staatsfeiertag Day! August 15 will be a day filled with fireworks, festivals, and bonfires celebrating Liechtenstein's National Day. National Day Procession and Fireworks at Vaduz Castle Liechtensteiner Staatsfeiertag […]
The Klondike Gold Rush is set into motion August 16, 1896 with the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon territory. When out of the night, which was fifty below, and […]
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia died August 17, 1786. Frederick the Great (1712-1786) Issued in 1933 to coincide with the opening session of the new Reichstag in Potsdam Frederick […]
French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac died August 18, 1850 in Paris, France. Honoré de Balzac - For the Unemployed Intellectuals This semi-postal stamp was part of a series […]
On August 19, 1915 the father of modern Turkish poetry, Tevfik Fikret died in Istanbul. In attempting to define a new literature, Tevfik Fikret and his contemporaries often wrote in an […]
Nobel Prize poet Salvatore Quasimodo was born August 20, 1901 in Modica, Sicily. ...the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order Salvatore 1959 Salvatore […]
Vienna opened Stadtpark, Austria's first public park, August 21, 1862. Designed by Vienna's first city gardener, Rudolph Siebeck, in 1861 using original plans by Joseph Selleny Stadtpark Vienna and Botanic […]
Michael Collins, Irish Republic revolutionary, soldier & politician was assassinated in a roadside ambush on August 22, 1922. Collins was central figure in the Irish fight for independence from British […]
Nazik Al-Malaika, one of Iraq's great modern poets, was born August 22, 1923 in Baghdad. Al-Malaika was an anomaly in her society, and her legacy as a poet resulted from […]
Irish landscape painter Paul Henry died August 24, 1958 in Bray, Ireland. “Cezanne and Van Gogh saw clearly because they had cast aside all the theories and prejudices of the […]
On August 25, 1835, New York City was shaken by the New York Sun's Great Moon Hoax. The Sun ran a 6 part satirical series about discoveries on the moon, […]
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the "Master of Fleas and Father of Microbiology" died August 26, 1723. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) naturalist Issued by the Dutch post office in 1937 Designed by […]