August 2007
Leo/Virgo
Child Support Month, National Park Month, & Water Quality Month
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John Bolton made U.N. Ambassador by Bush, Jr. [2005]
Pagan Lammas (Lughnasadh)
Niger Independence Day
Mercury enters Leo
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima [1945]: 150,000 die, thousands more left suffering
Jupiter direct in Sagittarius
Gulf of Tonkin resolution gives President Johnson okay to repel any army attack in Vietnam [1964]
Mars enters Gemini
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki [1945]:
kills 35,000;
Richard M. Nixon resigns [1974] after Watergate scandal
retrograde Venus
re-enters Leo
12,580 barrels of oil spill off Philippine coast [2006]
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Ku Klux Klan Killen, who killed 3 civil rights activists in 1964, released on bond [2005]
New Moon
Central African Republic Independence Day
Pakistan Independence Day
U.N. brokered ceasefire in southern Lebanon begins [2006]
Japan surrenders [1945], ending WWII
India and Ukraine Independence days
Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Assumption of Mary
Woodstock [1969]: rock festival ends at Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York;
warrantless wiretapping unconstitutional [2006]
Indonesia Independence
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Afghanistan Independence Day
Mercury enters Virgo
Nineteenth Amendment [1920]: right of citizens to vote not denied on basis of sex gives women right to vote
Hawaii becomes 50th U.S. state [1959]
Sun enters Virgo
British burn White House [1814] in War of 1812;
Kubler-Ross dies [2004];
Pat Robertson suggests assassination of Venezuelan President Chavez [2005]
National Park Service anniversary [1916]
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Women’s Equality Day
Bush, Sr.: Atheists should not be U.S. citizens [1987]
Hindu Raksha Bandhan;
Jain Paryushana
Full Moon
Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana, Mississippi, and Gulf Coast [2005]
Princess Diana dies in car crash [1997]
