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* August 2-John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia.
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Newcastle finished fifth in the league at the end of the 2003 – 04 season, and exited the Champions League in the qualifying rounds, but despite this Robson was sacked in August 2004 following a series of disagreements with the club.
To expand the Met's support to its national radio audience, the Met board's Eleanor Robson Belmont, the former actress and wife to industrialist August Belmont, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
In August 2011, Robson was voted as the greatest ever Manchester United player from a poll of ex Manchester United Players as part of a new book, 19, released to celebrate their 19th league title win.
* 30 August 2004 – Newcastle United manager Sir Bobby Robson is sacked after a poor start to the Premier League season amid reports of dressing-room discontent.
* 2006 in Helsinki ( 18 – 20 August ) GoH: Jeff VanderMeer, Risto Isomäki, Justina Robson, Rickard Berghorn
John Robson Walby ( alias Gwynne Owen Evans ), one of the last two people to be hanged in England, was executed at Strangeways on 13 August 1964.
Following his studies, he joined Sheffield United as a fitness and conditioning coach in June 2003 but later quit his post following a row with new manager Bryan Robson on 30 August 2007.
* Robson Lowe, " The Uganda Missionaries ", a supplement to The Philatelist ( August, 1974 ); Robson Lowe, London ( 1974 )
He was a regular starter at the beginning of the 2004 – 05 season, but Robson was sacked on 28 August 2004 and replaced by Graeme Souness, who made drastic changes at the club, cutting star players like Craig Bellamy and Laurent Robert.
Carr signed for Newcastle United in August 2004 when then manager Bobby Robson signed him for a fee of £ 2 million and a contract that would last four years.
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* 9 August 1965-The Malaysian Parliament votes to expel Singapore from the Federation ; Singapore becomes independent after separating from Malaysia.
* 9 August 1965-Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established and S Rajaratnam becomes Singapore's first Minister for Foreign Affairs.
* 8 August 1967-Singapore becomes a founding member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).
* 13 August 2004-Yeo Yong-Boon George becomes the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Still farther to the south, however, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains bar the rains from the Mediterranean, and the area, including the capital city of Damascus, becomes part of the semiarid climatic zone of the steppe, with precipitation averaging less than a year and with temperatures from in January to in July and August.
* July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.
* August – The Spanish Flu ( influenza ) becomes pandemic ; over 30 million people die in the following 6 months ( almost twice as many as died during the war ).
* August 18 – Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.
* August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.
* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.
* August 11 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
* August 8 – Bhutan becomes independent
* August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship is finished in Greece and becomes the president.
* August 11 – Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France.
* August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
* August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.
* August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
* August 2 – The first cold front of the White Earthquake strikes Chile, during the rest of August several communities becomes isolated due to heavy snowfall and livestock is decimated.
* August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.
* August 1 – Dahomey, now known as Benin, becomes independent from France.
* August 3 – Niger becomes independent from France.
* August 5 – Upper Volta, now known as Burkina Faso, becomes independent from France.
* August 7 – The Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) becomes independent from France.
* August 11 – Chad becomes independent from France.
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The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ( 1969 – 72 ), on 27 August 2004.
* Wag ' n ' Walk, which takes place towards the end of August, is Western Washington's premier celebration of all things Dog.
In August 2003, İlham Aliyev was appointed as premier, though Artur Rasizade, who had been prime minister since 1996, continued to fulfill the duties of that office so that İlham could concentrate on his presidential election bid.
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home.
In August – September 2010, Swit starred in the world premier of the Mark Miller play, Amorous Crossings at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, directed by Todd Booth.
On 17 August 2011, he was featured in the premier episode of Hulu's first long-form original production entitled, A Day in the Life.
Hanlon died on 15 January 1952 and Gair, having been acting premier since the previous August, was elected by the ALP Caucus to succeed him on 17 January.
* Jean Lesage ( 31 May 1958 – 28 August 1969 ) ( premier 1960 – 1966 )
One of the premier festivals of Yamagata Prefecture, Shinjō Matsuri ( or Shinjō Festival ) is a Summertime celebration held on August 24 – 26 annually.
He became premier, treasurer and minister for education on 10 August 1904.
* August 8-John Herbert Turner is dismissed as premier of British Columbia
* August 15-Charles Semlin becomes premier of British Columbia
* August 13 – Dalton McGuinty Senior, politician and father of premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty and the politician David McGuinty ( d. 1990 )
* August 12-Albert Saunders becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James D. Stewart
* August 20-John Duncan MacLean becomes premier of British Columbia
* August 20-John Duncan MacLean resigns as premier of British Columbia
* August 21-Simon Fraser Tolmie becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean
* August 29-James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Walter Lea
* August 15-Walter Lea becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing W. J. P. MacMillan
* August 6-Bill Vander Zalm becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Bill Bennett
* August 16-John Hamm becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Russell MacLellan
* August 25-Dan Miller, as interim leader of the NDP, becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Glen Clark who resigned on the 21st
On August 8, Quebec premier Robert Bourassa had announced at a press conference that he had invoked Section 275 of the National Defence Act to requisition military support in " aid of the civil power ", a right available to provincial governments.
In August 1908, Scott was re-elected as premier of Saskatchewan.
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