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August 3
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels. The award has been given annually since 1966 and has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards. During the 61 nomination years, 209 authors have had works nominated, and 48 of these have won (including co-authors and ties). Ursula K. Le Guin has received the most Nebula Awards for Best Novel, with four wins out of six nominations. Joe Haldeman has received the next most: three awards out of four nominations, while nine other authors have each won twice. Jack McDevitt has the most nominations at twelve (with one win), while Poul Anderson and Philip K. Dick tie for having the most nominations without winning an award, at five each. (This list is part of a featured topic: Nebula Award.)
August 5
The Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is an annual award presented to the most outstanding female college basketball athlete selected for the Academic All-America teams in a given year. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic performance and academic achievement excellence of the United States' top student athletes. The program is divided into four categories: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, Division II, and Division III member schools, and a division for National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics schools, Canadian universities and colleges, and two-year colleges. One of the twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for each division. The most recent women's basketball players to have earned the all-sports honor did so in 2024: Caitlin Clark of Iowa in Division I, Samantha Pirosko of Gannon in Division II, and Grace Beyer (pictured) of UHSP in the NAIA. (Full list...)
August 7
Ecuador has five sites on the list of World Heritage Sites, and a further six on the tentative list. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Ecuador acceded to the convention on 16 June 1975, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first two sites listed in Ecuador were the Galápagos Islands and the city of Quito (building pictured), in 1978; they were also the first two sites inscribed on the list as a whole, with the reference numbers 1 and 2. Three Ecuadorian World Heritage Sites are listed for their cultural properties, and two for their natural properties. (Full list...)
August 10
Clint Eastwood is an American retired actor, director, producer, singer, composer, and lyricist. He appeared in over 60 films in a career that spanned 72 years. Eastwood's breakout film role was as the Man with No Name in the Sergio Leone–directed Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). In 1971, Eastwood made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me. Also that year, he starred as San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry. The film received critical acclaim, and spawned four more films: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). He received the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his 1992 western Unforgiven and for Million Dollar Baby in 2004. His most recent acting role was for the film Cry Macho (2021). He was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, in 1996, and the National Medal of Arts in 2010. (Full list...)
August 12
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A series of modern battleships were built between 1893 and 1942 by the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). Early designs were marked by their small size, light armor, and high speed compared to contemporary foreign counterparts. Three designs of pre-dreadnought battleships were constructed: two ships of the Ammiraglio di Saint Bon class, two of the Regina Margherita class, and four of the Regina Elena class, which were the fastest battleships in the world at the time of their completion. After the British battleship HMS Dreadnought was completed in 1906, its revolutionary design rendered all previous battleships obsolete. Italy built three classes of dreadnought battleships between 1913 and 1915: the Dante Alighieri, three of the Conte di Cavour class, and two of the similar Andrea Doria class. A further four-ship class was cancelled during construction. In the interwar period, the four Littorio-class battleships (ship pictured) were begun, three of which were completed prior to the end of World War II, after which the surviving ones were scrapped. (Full list...)
August 14
The Norm Smith Medal is an award in Australian rules football presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Before 1990, the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL). The award was first presented in the 1979 VFL grand final, and it was won by Wayne Harmes, playing in Carlton's premiership victory against Collingwood. The award is named in honour of Norm Smith, who won four VFL premierships as a player and six as a coach for the Melbourne Football Club. Dustin Martin (pictured) is the only player to have won the Norm Smith Medal three times. The award is usually won by a player on the winning team in the grand final; only four players have received it as a member of the losing team. The Norm Smith Medal was most recently awarded to Brisbane's Will Ashcroft, after the 2025 AFL Grand Final. (Full list...)
August 17
Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, including ragtime-vaudeville, Delta blues, country blues, and urban blues from Chicago and the West Coast. Many blues standards were first recorded in the pre-World War II acoustic blues era, before music publications tracked the sales of blues records. Many popular renditions, as reflected in the record charts, are more modern versions featuring electric instruments. For example, Robert Johnson and Tampa Red, who were the first to record the most blues standards on the list at four each, performed them as solo or duo acoustic performances. B. B. King (pictured – second from right) and Muddy Waters used electric blues-ensemble arrangements. (Full list...)
August 19
There are more than 30 inhabited islands and skerries in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands and skerries located off the west coast of mainland Scotland. Of these, Islay, Mull and Skye are the largest and most populous. The islands of Scotland's west coast are known collectively as the Hebrides; the Inner Hebrides are separated from the Outer Hebrides by The Minch to the north and the Sea of the Hebrides to the south. The northern Inner Hebrides, including Skye, the Small Isles and the Summer Isles, are part of the Highland unitary council region. The southern group, including Islay, Jura, the Slate Islands and Gigha are part of the Argyll and Bute council region. The islands of the Inner Hebrides had a population of 18,948 at the time of the 2011 census. In addition to the inhabited islands, there are 43 uninhabited islands with an area greater than 30 hectares (approximately 74 acres), as well as dozens of smaller islets and skerries. (This list is part of a featured topic: Islands of Scotland.)
August 21
During the Late Bronze Age, nine tholos tombs were constructed at the site of Mycenae in southern Greece, which gives its name to Mycenaean civilisation. Tholos tombs, or tholoi, are a form of monumental burial that originated in Messenia, in southwest Greece, at the end of the Middle Helladic III period (that is, c. 1700 – c. 1675 BCE). They consist of a narrow rectangular entrance passage, known as the dromos, which leads into an underground burial chamber, separated from the dromos by an entrance-way called the stomion, which would usually be sealed with a dry-stone wall. The walls of the chamber, and sometimes of the dromos, were lined with dry-stone masonry. The chamber was capped with a rounded roof constructed by the technique of corbelling, by which courses of blocks were overlapped in increasingly small circles. They were typically used for multiple burials, perhaps of members of the same family, and many were periodically re-opened for additional interments and for ritual activity. (Full list...)
August 24
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The 76th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2023, until May 31, 2024, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented on September 7 and 8, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. A total of 106 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 99 categories. Shōgun won fourteen awards, leading all programs; The Bear followed with seven awards. Shōgun also received the most nominations with 17 nominations followed by Only Murders in the Building and Saturday Night Live with 15 nominations each. Among networks and platforms FX earned the most awards with 27 wins; Netflix received the most nominations with 83. (Full list...)
August 26
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There are 97 World Heritage Sites in Arab States listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The organization designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage which have been nominated by signatories to the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. Cultural heritage consists of monuments, groups of buildings, and sites, while natural heritage consists of natural features, geological and physiographical formations, and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation, or natural beauty. The Arab States are one of the five regions defined by UNESCO, alongside Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It consists of 19 Arab nations which have accepted the World Heritage Convention. Of the World Heritage Sites in the region, 88 were inscribed for their cultural significance, 6 for their natural significance, and 3 for both their natural and cultural significance. (Full list...)
August 28
There are 146 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in operation in Singapore. The MRT is the country's principal mode of public transport. Owned by the Land Transport Authority, the system spans 246.6 kilometres (153.2 mi) and has six lines: the North–South Line (NSL), East–West Line (EWL), North East Line (NEL), Circle Line (CCL), Downtown Line (DTL), and Thomson–East Coast Line (TEL). The MRT has two operators: SMRT Trains and SBS Transit. SMRT operates the NSL, EWL, CCL, and TEL, whilst SBS operates the NEL and DTL. As of 2025, the MRT serves 3.49 million passengers a day. (Full list...)
August 31
The Dutch Athlete of the Year is an annual award given to the most distinguished competitor in the sport of athletics from the Netherlands by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation (KNAU). A shortlist is drawn up by a group of federation officials and sports journalists and then goes to a vote to the public. The award is presented at the annual end-of-year gala of the federation. The award was inaugurated in 1936 as the Sauer Cup. It was renamed to the KNAU Cup in 1947, as the eponymous Sauer had collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. Initially a mixed-gender award, the best Dutch male and female athletes were recognised separately from 1959 onwards. The men's award was called the Herman van Leeuwen Cup during this period, while the women's award continued as the KNAU Cup. Since 2005, the awards have been known as the Dutch Athlete of the Year, and since 2018, it is again a mixed-gender award. (Full list...)
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