Unix Timestamp: 1219708800
Tuesday, August 26. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

September 1 – Hurricane Gustav makes landfall on Louisiana as Category 2 and kills seven in the United States, after making landfall on western Cuba as Category 4, and killing 66 in Haiti, eight in the Dominican Republic, and 11 in Jamaica.

Hurricane Gustav

Russiaunilaterally recognizes the independence of Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.