Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* Colonel Safar Abiyev ( June – August 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

:: K. Commodus ( 31 August 161 – 31 December 192 ), died without issue

* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.

* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

From the dry ground in late summer ( August in zone 7 ) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30 – 60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.

* August 11, 480 BC: The Battle of Thermopylae, a costly victory by Persians over the Greeks

* August 7 – The Byzantines defeat the Avars, Slavs and Persians who were besieging Constantinople for the first time.

* August 11 – The Battle of Thermopylae ends in victory for the Persians under Xerxes.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.

Charles wanted not just to defeat the army but to depose August ( see above ), whom he regarded as especially treasonous, and have him replaced with someone who would be a Swedish ally, and this goal proved hard to achieve.

In August 2003, He announced before Parliament his " absolute last " effort to achieve peace with Pakistan.

Temperatures can sometimes reach 30. 0 ° C ( 86. 0 ° F ) in the summer, this figure was last achieved on 18 August 2012 and on an average of 17. 1 days the temperature will achieve a value of 25. 1 ° C ( 77. 2 ° F ) or above.

If the general offensive failed to achieve these purposes, followup operations would be conducted to wear down the enemy and lead to a negotiated settlement ; Phase II was scheduled to begin on 5 May, and Phase III on 17 August.

On 14 August 2005 the Washington Post quoted one anonymous U. S. senior official expressing that " the United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges ... ' What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground '".

Two further former officers-naval captain Kong Sileah and paratroop colonel Nhem Sophon-were however to decide that they wanted an organisation with a unified command structure, rather than the KPNLF's loose coalition, and set up the Movement for the National Liberation of Kampuchea ( MOULINAKA ) on 31 August 1979 to achieve this.

This position was held by the conservative Yankee Institute, which claimed in August 2006 that after fifteen years the income tax had failed to achieve its stated goals.

In August 2010, Ronaldo reached 10 million fans on Facebook and in doing so made history by becoming the first non-American personality ever to achieve that kind of success on the social networking site.

* On August 12, 2007, Ordóñez hit two home runs in an eight-run second-inning of an 11 – 6 win over the Oakland Athletics, becoming the second batter in Tigers ' history to achieve this feat ; Al Kaline had done so on April 17, 1955 in a 16 – 0 win over the then-Kansas City Athletics.

On August 1 Danilo Barillas, the Secretary General of the DCG was assassinated, but on August 25 Cerezo came back with a new promise to renovate the public administration by consolidating democracy within 500 days ( the time he had left in power ); which he managed to achieve as we see democracy still stands to this day on Guatemala.

ABC reran the episodes over the summer of 1979 ( in August on Sundays ) where they continued to achieve high ratings leading many to believe that the show would have a long run.

In August 2010, the Ninth Circuit stated in its decision that “ EchoStar did not succeed ' on any significant issue ' or ' achieve any of the benefit it sought in bringing suit ' under the Communications Act .” The Ninth Circuit awarded NDS US $ 18 million and concluded that “ There is no question that NDS successfully defended against all of EchoStar ’ s claims based on or related to its theory that NDS was responsible for the compromise of EchoStar ’ s satellite television programming security system .”

As construction on the modern campus continued throughout the 1980s, the college petitioned its Board of Regents for full university status on August 27, 1989, and the request was approved for the Fall 1990 term, making it the first among the ten Concordia University System campuses to achieve that standing.

To achieve this, the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force ( AASF ) was formed on 24 August 1939 from No. 1 Group, and its 10 squadrons of Fairey Battles dispatched to airfields in the Rheims area on 2 September 1939.

In view of changing global conditions amid the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak had in August 2009, said that there was now a need to redefine and recalibrate the vision in terms of how to achieve it, as well as its timeline.

Shakespears Sister went on to achieve a UK top 10 hit with " You're History " in August 1989, although Detroit was still not a full member and the album only featured Fahey on the cover.

The PPMD submitted a petition of nearly 15, 000 signatures on August 2, a number more than sufficient to achieve official party status and a ballot line, but this was rejected under a local ballot access law as a number of the signees had moved between counties since their voter registration.

He said that the band's second album develops the sounds of August and Everything After and that they " largely achieve their serious ambitions ".

Never able to achieve successful ratings, Texas aired from August 4, 1980 to Dec. 31, 1982.

The crucial Battle of Warsaw was won in the early days of August, before the mission could achieve anything of importance.

The crucial battle of Warsaw was won in the early days of August, before the mission could achieve anything of importance.

The Dawes conference was subsequently held to figure out a solution to the crisis, and in August 1924 it concluded that Germany had to achieve economic stability before paying out any reparations.