August Events in History

This month our Holidays & Events display celebrates National Golf Month with stamps and covers that demonstrate the worldwide popularity of that pastime, while our Philatelic History display brings together a number of events that took place in August, centering around the August 12, 1898 Protocol of Peace that ended the short-lived Spanish-American War and extended United States influence in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

U.S. Territory August Connections

By John F. Dunn

This month we take a look at a number of events that took place in August, all related in one way or another to the relationship between the United States and its Territories (listed in the Scott Catalogs under U.S. Possessions), most influenced by the events up to and surrounding the Spanish-American War, a short-lived 1898 conflict between the U.S. and Spain that stemmed from U.S. intervention in the…

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Antigua & Barbuda

Australia http://www.royalmelbourne.com.au/welcome/index.mhtml

Australia

Barbados

Belgium http://www.pbgc.be/

Bermuda http://www.gotobermuda.com

Canada http://www.golfcanada.ca/

Canada

Central Africa http://en.wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicklaus

Channel Islands - Jersey http://www.royaljersey.com/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Vardon

Christmas Island

Christmas Island - Australia

Christmas Island - Australia

Cook Islands

Dominican Republic https://casadecampo.com.do/golf

Finland http://www.golfeurope.com/euro_clubs/finland-golf-courses.htm

France

French Polynesia

Great Britain http://www.golfdigest.com

Guinea

Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ryder_Cup

Ireland

Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_Irish_Open

Italy

Jamaica http://www.tryallclub.com/golf-at-tryall/

Kenya

Malaysia http://www.rsgc.com.my/

Maldives

Monaco

Monaco

New Zealand

New Zealand

Palestine

St. Kitts https://www.stkittstourism.kn/activities/golf

Togolaise

United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club

United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ouimet

United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(golfer)

United States

United States

United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer

United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Snead

United States http://www.biography.com/people/babe-didrikson-zaharias-9542047