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.

* August 27-Louis Kaplan retains the world Bantamweight title with a fifteen round draw ( tie ) against Babe Herman, in Waterbury.

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 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.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

-- The granting of the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter example of misleading minorities.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.

`` Seeing The Moon Rise '' is dated August, 1927.

Gus Ehlers, competitor of Mr. Houtz in this farm community, says his business since August 1 is running 50% above a year earlier.

All Mantle needs is eight more home runs in August and ten in September, and he will establish a new record.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

August ( ) is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

* In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers

* In the United States, August is National Back to School month.

* In the United States, August is National Goat Cheese Month.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* During the first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

* The middle week of August is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.