A former SR, Fanny Kaplan, tried to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918.

Following this event, along with the assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanya Kaplan on August 28, the Bolsheviks began a wave of persecution known as the Red Terror.

In August 1992, Donaldson and his producer David Kaplan went to Sarajevo on assignment.

The campaign of mass repressions was officially initiated as retribution for the assassination of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky by Leonid Kannegisser, and attempted assassination of Lenin by Fanni Kaplan on August 30, 1918.

Kaplan left CNN in August 2000, and Dobbs returned the following year, at the behest of his friend and CNN founder Ted Turner, becoming host and managing editor of the new and initially more general news program Lou Dobbs Reporting, which later became CNN News Sunday Morning.

After a three day trial, United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an 89-page ruling on August 17, 2000 upholding the motion picture industry's position and the constitutionality of the DMCA.

" Kid Dropper " Nathan Caplin or Kaplan ( August 3, 1891-August 28, 1923 ), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster controlling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s.

One of seven children, Kaplan was born in New York's Lower East Side on August 3, 1891.

On August 28, 1923, Kaplan was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and arraigned at Essex Market Court.

Kaplan was later shot and killed in August 1923.

* August 28-Nathan Kaplan is killed by Jacob Orgen gunman Louis Cohen while being transported from Essex Market Court.

* August 23-Nathan Kaplan, New York Prohibition gangster

* B. Kaplan, in Open Court, August, 1902.

The Lottery was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on August 26, 1971 ; two months later, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first executive director.

Viktor Kaplan ( November 27, 1876 – August 23, 1934 ) was an Austrian engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine.

In August 2003 Kaplan was awarded the appointment of adjunct Fellow at the Shorenstein Center where he continues to consult and lecture.

Robert Sikoryak, Danny Fingeroth, Arie Kaplan, Jerry Robinson and Eddy Friedfeld at a Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art event, August 2006.

* David E. Kaplan, " Mission Impossible: The inside story of how a band of reformers tried — and failed — to change America's spy agencies ", U. S. News & World Report, August 2, 2004.

However, after the unsuccessful attempt upon Lenin's life by Fanny Kaplan in August 1918, the " Red Terror " against Esers was launched.

In August 2008, the HyperTransport Consortium released HTX3, which extends the clock rate of HTX to 2. 6 GHz ( 5. 2 GT / s, 10. 7 GTi, 5. 2 real GHz data rate, 3 MT / s edit rate ) and retains backwards compatibility.

* August 24-WBA world Jr. Lightweight champion Ben Villaflor, a Hawaiian based Filipino, retains his world title with a second round knockout of Japan's future world champion, Yasutsune Uehara, in Honolulu.

* August 18-Carlos Ortiz retains his world Lightweight title in his rubber match with former world champion Ismael Laguna, by a fifteen round unanimous decision, Shea Stadium, New York.

As of August 2009, David Sainsbury retains a sizeable shareholding in his family's Sainsbury's supermarket chain ( around 5. 85 %).

* August 12-In a rematch of their 1958 bout, Archie Moore retains his world Light Heavyweight championship, with a three round knockout win of Yvon Durelle, in Montreal, Canada.

" Iraq is not disarming ," Ritter said on August 27, 1998, and in a second statement, " Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike.

* August 10-Ezzard Charles retains his world Heavyweight title, knocking out world Light-Heavyweight champion Gus Lesvenich in round eight, at New York.

* August 5-Maxie Rosenbloom retains his world Light-Heavyweight title with a fifteen round decision over former world champion Jimmy Slattery, at their New York rematch.

It retains some of the borough customs such as electing a mayor, who beats the bounds on horseback every August.

* August — a scheduled bout between Broome and former champion William Perry does not come off ; Broome has to pay forfeit and Perry claims the title, but his claim is not recognised and Broome retains the English Championship until 1856.

In 1876 he suggested a hypothesis in explanation of heredity, resembling the germplasm theory subsequently elaborated by August Weismann, to the effect that the germinal protoplasm retains its specific properties from generation to generation, dividing in each reproduction into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion, which is reserved to form the reproductive material of the mature offspring.

* August 20, 1979: San Diego's Metropolitan Transit Development Board ( MTDB ) purchases the SD & AE Railway Company in restored condition for $ 18. 1 million ( the SP retains ownership to the Plaster City to El Centro segment ).

After the end of the war, with the departure for Britain of the three European companies, the 3rd battalion was reformed as the 3rd Battalion Colonial Marines to do garrison duty in the Royal Naval Dockyard then under construction on Ireland Island, Bermuda, and was finally disbanded in Trinidad in August 1816 to form a free Black farming community which still retains its identity, carrying the name of " The Merikens ".

In August 2012, ACD Systems released ACDSee Free, which retains all viewing features for the most common image formats ( BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, PCX, PIC, WMF, EMF ); it lacks a thumbnail browser, and support for RAW and ICO formats.

The world record for concrete pumping was set on 7 August 2009 during the construction of the Parbati Hydroelectric Project, near the village of Suind, Himachal Pradesh, India, when the concrete mix was pumped through a vertical height of.

The world record for the largest continuously poured concrete raft was achieved in August 2007 in Abu Dhabi by contracting firm Al Habtoor-CCC Joint Venture and the concrete supplier is Unibeton Ready Mix

As of August 7, 2012, the project reported that the world has 16, 345 indexed primary degree confluence points and 6, 132 of them, in 185 countries, have been visited at least once.

A small international conference was held in 1904, leading to the first world congress in August 1905 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

The Gulf Stream's powerful influence makes seasonal temperature variations extremely small considering the latitude of the island, with ranges from around in August to in February, but also makes the island extremely cloudy with little sunshine even during the continuous polar day — in fact the island is one of the gloomiest places in the world with any sunshine data.

* 1929 – The Kellogg – Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record which has now stood for over 20 years.

On August 22, 2008, the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid chief executive in the world.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

Oil export earnings allowed Russia to increase its foreign reserves from $ 12 billion in 1999 to $ 597. 3 billion on 1 August 2008, the third largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

* August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

As of August 2, 2009, Phelps has broken thirty-seven world records in swimming.

* August 15 – Beverly Lynn Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747

* August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching ( with 4 wins that season ) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship ( also a record ); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.

* August 23 – The sudden death of popular Hollywood actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino at the age of only 31 years old causes mass grief and hysteria around the world.

* August 25 – The German Foreign Ministry cuts off all telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world in accordance with the plan for Fall Weiss.

* August 5 – Peter O ' Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11¾ins.

** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

* August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.

& August 5 – Sergey Bubka breaks the world record for men's pole vault.

* August 17 – The Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

* August 22 – The Overland Telegraph is completed in Australia, providing a telegraphic link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time.