Feast day of St. Lawrence the Librarian, venerated by some as the patron saint of archivists partly because he was martyred on behalf of donor restrictions. Rumor has long held that the Secret Archives of the Vatican preserves his mummified head.
August 10, 2020

On this date in 2004, Archives Council Nunavummi (Titiraqtauhimaqarvikmi Katimayiit Nunavutmi) held its inaugural meeting in Cambridge Bay Nunavut, Canada.
August 11, 2020

On this date in 1814, Stephen Pleasonton, a senior clerk in the US Secretary of State's office, hastily bundled the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, international treaties, and George Washington's correspondence into coarse linen bags and took them 35 miles from Washington to Leesburg, Virginia. There, he hid them in an abandoned house to safeguard them from British troops, who were in the process of burning government buildings in Washington.
August 24, 2020

Today in 2005, the Cambodian Parliament passed the country's first Archives Law. The law was drafted with the assistance of the French National Archives as part of a long term project to develop the National Archives of Cambodia. The law provided the National Archives of Cambodia with the powers it previously lacked to acquire records that had been accumulating since 1979 in various Cambodian Government Ministries and agencies.
August 24, 2020