August

• 7 1794 – Whisky Rebellion breaks out in Pennsylvania
  
• 8 1776 – Declaration of Independence signed
  
• 14 1765 – Sam Adams leads first mob against enforcers of the Stamp Act
  
• 19 1841 – John Tyler vetoes bill to The Fiscal Bank of the U. S. on the grounds of its unconstitutionality
  
• 21 1792 – Albert Gallatin drafts resolutions detailing resistance to the Excise Tax at a Pittsburgh convention
  
• 24 1814 – British forces burn down White House
  
• 26 1765 – Radicals opposing the Stamp Act gather around bonfires and shout for “Liberty and Property!”
  
• 30 1979 – President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia
  
• 31 1974 – President Richard Milhouse Nixon resigns
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