On 19 August 1915, sank the White Star Liner with the loss of 44 lives-this included three Americans and led to a diplomatic incident between Germany and the US.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

A more serious incident occurred in August 1945, when Konstantin Volkov, an NKVD agent and vice-consul in Istanbul, requested political asylum in Britain for himself and his wife.

In August 1981, in the first incident of the Gulf of Sidra, two Libyan jets fired on U. S. aircraft participating in a routine naval exercise over international waters of the Mediterranean Sea claimed by Libya.

In retaliation for this incident, the Taliban on August 8, 1998, returned and led a six-day killing frenzy of Hazaras, a report the Taliban denied at that time.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

* August 16 – After having spent 378 days in Taliban prison, the crew of Russian Il-76TD managed to overpower their guards, board their aircraft and fly to freedom ( see: 1995 Airstan incident ).

* August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas.

The " slapping incident " of Private Charles H. Kuhl of August 3, 1943, nearly ended Patton's career.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

On 24 August 1973, General Prats was forced to resign both as defense minister and as the commander-in-chief of the army, embarrassed by both the Alejandrina Cox incident and a public protest in front of his house by the wives of his generals.

After this incident, Rayburn hosted only one more seriesAMC's The Movie Masters, which ran from August 2, 1989 to January 19, 1990.

The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U. S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved " Tonkin Ghosts " ( false radar images ) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks.

In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified ; it concluded that the Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there were no North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the incident of August 4.

On August 4, another DESOTO patrol off the North Vietnamese coast was launched by Maddox and the Turner Joy, in order to " show the flag " after the first incident.

Within thirty minutes of the 4 August incident, President Johnson had decided on retaliatory attacks.

Evidence was still being sought on the night of August 4 when Johnson gave his address to the American public on the incident.

Various news sources, including Time, Life and Newsweek, ran articles throughout August on the Tonkin Gulf incident.

In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U. S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident.

On the morning of August 29, 2012 there was an incident in which seven Moroccan activists of the Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla stormed the rock and placed flags of Morocco, resulting in the arrest of four of them by Spanish soldiers.

Bové was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment for his role in the incident ; he was imprisoned for 44 days and released on August 1, 2002.

In his Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ), he explained, " I sought for a subject, that should give equal room and freedom for description, incident, and impassioned reflections on men, nature, and society, yet supply in itself a natural connection to the parts and unity to the whole.

In 1817 Andrew Jackson led an invasion of the Floridas, an incident known as the First Seminole War.

Otakou was probably also the " city of Otago " burnt by Captain Kelly in December 1817 during the Sophia incident.

The incident also spawned rumors that Lee had been institutionalized after going insane on live television.

The incident spawned nation-wide inspections of Japanese elevators by both Nippon Otis and the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.

The paper officially apologized the next day and the incident spawned a panel discussion on diversity.

Gratings which modulate the phase rather than the amplitude of the incident light are also produced, frequently using holography.

The emission of a Lambertian radiator does not depend upon the amount of incident radiation, but rather from radiation originating in the emitting body itself.

Authorized biographer Jeremy Wilson noted that the film has " undoubtedly influenced the perceptions of some subsequent biographers " such as the depiction of the film's Ali as the real Sherif Ali, rather than a composite character, and also the highlighting of the Deraa incident.

This incident has a variant: some sources purport that it was the Princesse de Lamballe who lost consciousness, and to prevent the queen from doing the same, the king himself – rather unusually – let in some air by tearing off the tapes that sealed the windows.

During the argument between the Opie and Anthony hosts and both Jones and Kyle, Kyle denied claims by Jones that he was part of a bigger plot of attempting to discredit Ventura and also suggested frustration over the attention on Kyle being focused on the alleged incident rather than on his book in general.

Rusk also drew the ire of supporters of Israel after he let it be known that he believed the USS Liberty incident was a deliberate attack on the ship, rather than an accident.

" Twain testified before Congress after the incident saying, " The whole episode has rather amused me.

According to Franklin and the motel's owner, Evelyn Carr ( whose last name is identified by some sources as Card, rather than Carr ), they had been on the telephone together at the time of the incident.

As the rule is based on incident light, rather than reflected light as with most camera light meters, very bright or very dark subjects are compensated for.

In interviews with the media, a number of passengers cited the need to face their fears and the psychological trauma created by the incident, rather than avoid riding their regular train.

After an incident of air rage ( apparently over a scone ) on a flight to Australia, Gallagher was banned for life from Cathay Pacific airlines ; Gallagher claimed he would " rather walk ".

Shortly afterwards, Rainz's account was banned from the beta test for previously exploiting bugs rather than reporting them ( frequently used by his character Aquaman to kill many player characters, a purported griefing incident ).

Her affection for Larry has been tested, even resulting in her leaving him for a time ; upon learning that he had put together the Seinfeld reunion just to have a chance to get back with her, she sees it as a sign of their " belong together ", but soon decides to file for divorce when Larry concentrates on a coffee stain incident rather than the fact that they are back together, refusing yet again to listen to her.

However, a Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) investigation revealed that that incident resulted from the improper handling of hydrodemolition water being used during bridge renovations, rather than in any basic flaw in the bridge's concept or design.

The incident was not directly attributed to skysurfing, but rather an error made during an attempt to film an " intentional cutaway " ( where a skydiver intentionally releases, and falls away from his primary parachute ).

In fact many say that the incident did not occur in Wilbraham, but rather in Hampden, MA, or possibly Connecticut.

The British Daily Telegraph newspaper said of the incident that ' For one with Meads ' worldwide reputation for robust play, this was rather like sending a burglar to prison for a parking offence.

In one incident, the torpedoing of USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945, oceanic whitetips are believed to be responsible for many of the attacks on sailors who survived the initial sinking, though most reportedly died from exposure to the elements rather than from shark attacks.

Various network administrators have demonstrated that the incident was a " joe job " attack rather than spam sent by Walton.

This led to a slightly embarrassing incident in February 2002 in which US Customs intercepted a rather innocuous package containing a serial cable.

However, the general Chinese populace had gravely turned this incident into something out of proportion as a way to protest the disastrous Cultural Revolution by claiming that after the Hua Guofeng was named by Mao as his successor, Liu had make a request in a face-to-face conversation with Hua Guofeng, wanting his funeral to be held by Deng, and his eulogy to be done by Deng, or else he would rather have his son to throw his cadaver in the fields to feed the wild dogs.

It seems like the dirge of national degradation, the wail of a race, stricken and crushed, familiar with tyranny, submission and unrequited labor … And here I cannot help noticing the similarity existing between the working chorus of the sailors and the dirge-like negro melody, to which my attention was specially directed by an incident I witnessed or rather heard.

At a spallation source, the time of flight technique is used to sort the energies of the incident neutrons ( higher energy neutrons are faster ), so no monochromator is needed, but rather a series of aperture elements synchronized to filter neutron pulses with the desired wavelength.

In point of fact it was almost wholly personal, and was rather an incident in the rivalry between the duke of Gloucester and his half-brother, Cardinal Beaufort, than one involving any principle.