Some Native American tribes knew that the sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this full Moon. Others called it the Green Corn Moon or the Grain Moon. Learn more about the full Moon in August.
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Saturday, August 5, 2028
Died
- King Louis III of France –
- Carmen Miranda (actress & singer) –
- Edgar Guest (poet) –
- Marilyn Monroe (American actress; died in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California) –
- Richard Burton (actor) –
- Sir Alec Guinness (actor) –
- Chick Hearn (basketball announcer, coined the phrases slam dunk and airball) –
Born
- Joseph Justus Scaliger (historian) –
- Thomas Lynch (signer of the Declaration of Independence) –
- Mary Ritter Beard (American author and historian; born in Indianapolis, Indiana) –
- Tom Thomson (painter) –
- Conrad Aiken (poet) –
- Neil Armstrong (astronaut; first to set foot on the Moon) –
- Maureen McCormick (actress) –
- Patrick Ewing (basketball player) –
- Olivia Holt (actress) –
Events
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, what is now St John’s, Newfoundland –
- The United States government issued its first income tax –
- Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias incorporated –
- Cornerstone for pedestal of Statue of Liberty laid –
- The first electric traffic light installed, Cleveland, Ohio –
- Royal Canadian Navy (through premier of British Columbia) acquired their first submarines –
- Little Orphan Annie made her comic strip debut –
- Gun turret and artifacts of Civil War U.S.S. Monitor recovered –
- Ralston reservoir dam broke near Auburn, California, sending a 3-foot-high wall of water down the American River –
- Brown booby spotted, Virginia Beach, VA –
Weather
- A spectacular cloudburst and tornado at Chester Creek, near Philadelphia, brought 16 inches of rain in three hours –
- 16 inches of rain fell in 3 hours in Delaware City, Pennsylvania –
- An Earthquake shakes Pelileo Ecuador, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale and causing 6000 deaths –
- Ice Harbor Dam, Washington, hit a temperature of 118 degrees F –