August is full of observances! Check out the list below and take action with CRS by engaging with our Facebook and Instagram posts that acknowledge these special designations.
Black August
Black Philanthropy Month
International Peace Month
National Wellness Month
National Black Business Month
August 2 – Anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin in 1924
August 2-3 – Tisha B’Av
August 6 – Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 (Hiroshima Day)
August 6 – Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 9 – Anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in 2014
August 9 – Nagasaki Memorial Day
August 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
August 12 – Anniversary of the death of Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1988
August 12 – International Youth Day
August 14 – National Navajo Code Talkers Day
August 14 – Anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act in 1935
August 14 – Pakistani Independence Day
August 13-16 – Obon
August 15 – Indian Independence Day
August 16 – Anniversary of the birth of Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. in 1989
August 17 – National Nonprofit Day
August 18 – Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920
August 19 – World Humanitarian Day
August 20 – Economic Opportunity Act was signed into law in 1964
August 21 – International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
August 22 – International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
August 22 – Anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech on Black Americans’ voting rights at the Democratic National Convention in 1964
August 23 – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
August 24 – Anniversary of the death of Bayard Rustin in 1987
August 26 – Women’s Equality Day
August 26 – Jizo Bon
August 28 – Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963
August 28 – Anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” in 1963
August 28 – Give 8/28
August 30 – International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
August 31 – International Day for People of African Descent