Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

In August 1828, Pinto's first year in office, Chile abandoned its short-lived federalist system for a unitary form of government, with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

In August 1989, Prime Minister Blaize broke with the GNP to form another new party, The National Party ( TNP ), from the ranks of the NNP.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

He and his companion-martyrs are commemorated with an optional memorial on 7 August in the ordinary form, and with a commemoration on 6 August in the extraordinary form.

In August 2009, Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG reached an agreement that the two companies would merge in 2011, to form an " Integrated Automotive Group ".

Roberto and Vera celebrated the Great One's return to form on August 17, 1965 ( one day before Roberto's birthday ), with the birth of their first son, Roberto Clemente, Jr., the first of three children, including Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto.

Following a Transitional Federal Government-Puntland cooperative agreement in August 2011 calling for the creation of a Somali Marine Force, of which the already established Puntland Maritime Police Force ( PMPF ) would form a part, the Puntland administration resumed training of PMPF naval officials.

However, the whole of Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940 following a June ultimatum from the Soviets demanding, among other things, that unspecified numbers of Red Army soldiers be allowed to enter the country for the purpose of helping to form a more pro-Soviet government.

* August 30 – Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and the Lutherans form an anti-French covenant.

" Under pressure from Napoleon, both countships merged to form the Duchy of Nassau on August 30, 1806.

In August 1919 a conservative president was elected – António José de Almeida ( whose Evolutionist party had come together in wartime with the PRP to form a flawed, because incomplete, Sacred Union ) – and his office was given the power to dissolve parliament.

An incident in August 1817 spawned a rather silly mix-up when a committee of the New England Linnaean Society went so far as to give a deformed terrestrial snake the name Scoliophis atlanticus, believing it was the juvenile form of a sea serpent that had recently been reported in Gloucester Harbor.

Another shock came in the form of the Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders committed in August 1969 by Charles Manson and his " family " of followers.

Retrieved August 30, 2012, form mean " people from Aztlan ", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people.

After weeks of dispute between this coalition and FRETILIN over who should form the government, Ramos-Horta announced on 6 August that the CNRT-led coalition would form the government and that Gusmão would become Prime Minister on 8 August.

Nevertheless, after 3 years of fighting and multiple prior " cease-fires ," the government and the RPF signed a " final " cease-fire agreement in August 1993, known as the Arusha Accords, in order to form a power sharing government, a plan which immediately ran into problems.

Shearer made his league debut away at Everton, on 17 August 1996, and maintained his form during the rest of the season, finishing as Premier League top-scorer for the third consecutive season with 25 goals in 31 Premier League games, as well as winning another PFA Player of the Year accolade, despite a groin injury forcing him to miss seven matches.

A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in 1950 in Boys ' Life magazine ( August, September, October, November 1950 ), under the title " Satellite Scout ".

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took credit for the killing and stated that it was in revenge for the assassination of their secretary-general Abu Ali Mustafa, killed by Israel in August that year.

Vanuatu recognized the State of Palestine on 21 August 1989.

On August 16 of this year the 1929 Palestine riots broke out between Palestinians and Jews over control of the Western Wall.

* August 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots breaks out between Palestinians and Jews and continues until the end of the month.

* August 8 – Seventy disciples of Vilna Gaon arrive in Palestine.

In August 1968, he led an attempt to make PLA Syria brigades more independent of Syrian control, and was made PLA chief-of-staff by the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) Executive Committee.

After the Six Day War of June 1967, this group merged in August with two other groups, Youth for Revenge and Ahmed Jibril's Syrian-backed Palestine Liberation Front, to form the PFLP, with Habash as leader.

On August 25, 1933, the Nazis even signed the Haavara Agreement with Zionists to allow German Jews to emigrate to Palestine — by 1939, 60, 000 German Jews had emigrated there.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

The Mandate would be terminated as soon as possible and the United Kingdom would withdraw from Palestine no later than the previously announced date of 1 August 1948.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a plan for the future government of Palestine which called for termination of the Mandate not later than 1 August 1948.

; 1993 August 20: The Oslo Accords are signed by Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.

Early in August, General Archibald Wavell was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, and he sent reinforcements which had been sought by Wilson, initially the Indian 4th Infantry Division and advanced elements of 6th Australian Division and, as the build up at Mersa Matruh continued, Richard O ' Connor and his staff at 7th Infantry Division in Palestine were moved to Egypt to reinforce Wilson's command structure there.

In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding ( GOC ) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan and was promoted to lieutenant general in January 1938.

On 10 August 1928, a constituent assembly convened by the French in Syria was rapidly adjourned when calls were made for a reunification with Palestine.

News that the Zurich Congress, in creating the Jewish Agency on 11 August., had brought unity among Zionists and the world Jewish community, a measure that would greatly increase Jewish investment in British Palestine, set off alarm bells.

In August of that year, Wavell asked Dorman-Smith to take over command of the Staff College for Palestine at Haifa.

By August 1939, 17 % of all German Christians in Palestine were members of the Nazi party.

On August 20, 1939 the German government called on German Christians in Palestine to join the Wehrmacht and 350 men enlisted.

Wilson wanted to concentrate troops in Britain, Ireland, India and Egypt – rather than what he saw as excessive commitments to the Rhine and in Mesopotamia, Persia and Palestine, later writing ( 11 August 1921 ) that interfering in other countries followed by having to make “ peace ” was “ like buggery: once you take to it, you cannot stop ”.

Evidence emerged that he had enjoyed a free holiday in August 1990 as the guest of Mona Bauwens, a daughter of the Palestine Liberation Organization official Jaweed al-Ghussein, and another paid for by the ruler of Abu Dhabi.

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