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.

In August 2003 the Refugee Status Appeals Authority declared both his Belgian and French trials to be " unsafe " and granted Zaoui refugee status.

*' Refugee Jews and England ' ( Manchester Guardian, 26 August 1938 )

Curtin was appointed to the Garda Complaints Appeals Board in May 2001 ; to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal in August 2001 ; and to the circuit court in November 2001.

Post-graduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law ( April, 2002 ), Certificate Course in International Refugee and Humanitarian Law ( August, 2002 ), Certificate Course in International Refugee and Humanitarian Law ( October, 2002 ), Post-graduate diploma in International Law of Human Rights ( April, 2003 ), Certificate Course in International Environmental Law ( September, 2003 ), Certificate Course in Children ’ s Rights Law ( January, 2004 ), Post-graduate Diploma in International Law of Human Rights ( March, 2004 ), Post Graduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law ( 2006 ),

Status was extended to August 2003, when the Israeli Ministry of Interior granted permanent residency.

In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.

In August 2009, Status Quo returned to Northern Ireland to play in Carrickfergus.

Status Quo played at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival on 28 June, and at the separately held Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza in August 2009.

They organised the Queen's visit to Whitehaven in June 2008, followed by the Status Quo gig in August of that year.

On Sunday 30 August 1992, 100, 000 fans attended the BBC Radio 1 biggest ever Roadshow to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Radio 1 with live performances from bands including Del Amitri, Aswad, The Farm and Status Quo.

The new Personal Status Code passed in August 1956 expanded women's rights, though it remains open to debate how much this transformed Tunisian society in practice.

On 19 August 1983 India was admitted to the Antarctic Treaty and thereafter obtained Consultative Status.

On January 16th 2012, Soundgarden, Chase & Status, You Me At Six, Tenacious D, Machine Head, Trivium, Lamb of God, Devin Townsend Project, DevilDriver, Little Angels, Anthrax, Ugly Kid Joe and August Burns Red were all confirmed to perform.

Individuals who were, as of August 2008, still on a TPV, became eligible to apply for a Resolution of Status Visa, which, should it be granted, is akin to a permanent protection visa.

Through all these PUC has kept on “ shining .” On August 1, 1996 in accordance with Republic Act ( RA ) No. 7722 and by the virtue of Resolution No. 132-96, Series of 1996, the Commission on Higher Education ( CHED ) granted PUC the long-awaited University Status entailing the change of the school ’ s name from Philippine Union College to Adventist University of the Philippines ( AUP ).

Frank Arthur Calder, ( August 3, 1915 – November 4, 2006 ) was a Nisga ' a politician in Canada, the first Status Indian to be elected to any legislature in Canada.

In August, 2008, the ICMEC was granted " Special Consultative Status " with the United Nations ( UN ) Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ), primarily to assist the UN by providing expertise regarding the issues of child sexual exploitation and child abduction.

* A. Ogata, " Status and Problems of Plasma Accelerators ", ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter, No. 11, August 1996.

With Pomeroy installed, It Bites supported Status Quo at the latter's Whitehaven concert on 2 August 2008 and went on to their own headline tour around the UK between 26 September and 7 October 2008 with neo-prog rock newcomers Touchstone as support.

On August 25, 2005, the Associated Press distributed a story about Camp Iguana being reopened to hold detainees whose Combatant Status Reviews had concluded that they should not have been determined to have been " enemy combatants ".

In the U. S., the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants appointed a Personal Representative ( CSRT ) to meet with each captive who was still being held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, in August 2004, when the Supreme Court forced the Department of Defense to start convening Combatant Status Review Tribunals.