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August history 1 - Anne Frank pens her last diary entry (1944) 6 - Voting Rights Act 0f 1965 signed into law (1965) 14 - FDR signs Social Security Act (1935) 15 - Woodstock Festival begins in Bethel, New York (1969) 17 - First transatlantic balloon trip completed (1979) 18 - 19th Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, granting women the right to vote (1920) 21 - Eisenhower signs proclamation admitting hawaii to the union as the 50th state (1959) 24 - Vesuvius erupts and destroys Pompeii (79)

August holidays: 8-International Cat Day

August Birthdays 1 - Herman Melville 4 - Louis Armstrong 5 - Neil Armstrong 6 - Lucille Ball 8 - Ogden Nash 13 - Alfred Hitchcock 14 - Steve Martin 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte 22 - Dorothy Parker 25 - Leonard Bernstein 29 - John McCain 30 - Mary Shelley