The month is named after the emperor Octavian Augustus. Before that, it was called sextilis. Initially, sextilis had only 30 days, but Augustus increased it to 31 days so that it would not be shorter than the month of July, named after Julius Caesar. An extra day was taken from February. In Ireland, August is considered the first month of autumn.
HOLIDAYS:
World Lung Cancer Day.
Switzerland – Confederation Day.
SIGNS:
Makrid. Makrida is wet – and autumn is wet. A bucket (i.e. clear weather) on Makridu – dry autumn. Fluff flew from the aspen – go for the boletus.
BORN:
1744 Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet LAMARK, French naturalist. For the first time, he distinguished the animal world into vertebrates and invertebrates, and it was he who named the latter. The last years of his life, the scientist completely lost his sight, so he was forced to dictate his works to his daughters.
1923 Valentina Mikhailovna LEONTIEVA, actress, announcer of the Central Television. She survived the blockade of Leningrad, lost her father, who died of starvation, her career was not easy …
1936 Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, had an exceptional influence on the development of fashion in the second half of the twentieth century. His first models were children’s dolls. He began working as a designer for Christian DIOR in 1955, and after Dior’s death in 1957 he became his successor. In 1962, he founded his own fashion house, creating for the first time the image of a “strong” man and woman – classic, stylish urban clothes. Saint Laurent called himself “an invisible fighter who wages an inconspicuous war on bad taste.”
1948 Ivars Edmunds Kalnins, Latvian actor. Born in the family of an auto mechanic and a housewife. He has four daughters and a son from three marriages. The third wife is 30 years younger than the actor.
1972 Anatoly Aleksandrovich BELY (VAYSMAN), Russian actor. The pseudonym “Bely” is a translation of his last name from German into Russian.
1979 Joseph Jason Namakeaha MOMOA, American actor (Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones).
1984 Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER, German football player. His last name is derived from Schwein (“pig”) and Steiger (“stall” or “miner”). He is often erroneously referred to as Sebastian. Wife – Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic, they have two sons.
EVENTS:
1498 Christopher Columbus first saw South America, which he mistook for an island.
1774 The English chemist Joseph Priestley was the first to obtain pure oxygen, which he called “dephlogisticated air”.
1778 The world’s first savings banks opened in Hamburg, Germany.
1964 Start of broadcasting of radio station “Mayak”. There is a funny statistic that the call signs of radio stations in the period from 1964 to 1994 inclusive were used in one way or another in the cinema and sounded in the frame of feature films 11 thousand 305 times.
1981 In the United States, the MTV music channel began broadcasting. The first video clip shown on its air was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. Since 1987, the channel began to work in Europe.
INTERESTING FACTS:
“August 1” is the name of the exemplary aerobatic team of the Chinese Air Force.
