- Aug 1 Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado on Route 34 kills 139
Lauda Crashes
Aug 1 Reigning world F1 champion Niki Lauda of Austria suffers a near fatal crash during the German Grand Prix at The Nürburgring motorsports complex, Nürburg, Germany
- Aug 1 Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle
- Aug 1 XXI Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada
- Aug 4 England beats Australia by 8 wickets in the limited overs cricket international at Lord's; first time women are permitted to play on the main square at 'the home of cricket'
- Aug 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Aug 6 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi
- Aug 7 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
- Aug 7 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
- Aug 8 Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
- Aug 9 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
- Aug 9 Pittsburgh Pirate John Candelaria no-hits the LA Dodgers, 2-0
- Aug 9 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
Music History
Aug 10 Elton John performs the first of seven sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden, NYC, to conclude his North American tour
- Aug 10 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer shot dead by the British Army as he drove in Belfast; his car out of control and kills 3 children, sparking "peace rallies" throughout the month by the 'Peace People'
Keith Moon Collapses
Aug 11 "The Who" drummer Keith Moon collapses and is hospitalized in Miami, Florida
- Aug 11 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
- Aug 12 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
- Aug 12 Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
- Aug 13 South Africa pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
- Aug 14 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
- Aug 14 Stiff Records first release - single "So It Goes" by rocker Nick Lowe
Aug 16 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Dave Stockton wins 2nd PGA C'ship in a Monday bad weather finish; by 1 stroke from Ray Floyd & Don January
- Aug 16 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers, 20-10 in Tokyo, Japan (NFL Expo)
- Aug 17 An earthquake & tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
- Aug 17 West Indies win big at The Oval with Michael Holding taking 14-149 in the match
Axe Murders Incident
Aug 18 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-Sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Aug 18 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
Gerald Ford Wins Nomination
Aug 19 President Gerald Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention
- Aug 21 "Operation Paul Bunyan" begins in retaliation for the "Korean axe murder incident" 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers
- Aug 21 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
- Aug 21 Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
- Aug 23 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
- Aug 24 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
- Aug 25 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
- Aug 25 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
- Aug 27 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
- Aug 28 Toronto Metros-Croatia beat the Minnesota Kicks to the win the 1976 North American Soccer League championship
- Aug 28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Brokaw on The Today Show
Aug 30 Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC's "The Today Show"
- Aug 30 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
- Aug 31 Mexican peso devalued
- Aug 31 Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
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