France joined the British action against China, prompted by the execution of a French missionary, Father August Chapdelaine (" Father Chapdelaine Incident "), by Chinese local authorities in Guangxi province.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

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.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

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.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

This was working by the end of August and giving satisfactory service.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The normal rate of suicides in East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August 13 it has jumped to 25 a day!!

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

John Henry Newman ( February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890 ) was an English convert to Roman Catholicism, later made a cardinal, and beatified in 2010.

Saint Eugene de Mazenod ( August 1, 1782-May 21, 1861 ) born Charles Joseph Eugene de Mazenod and more commonly known as Eugene de Mazenod, was a French Catholic clergyman, beatified on 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI, and canonized on 3 December 1995 by Pope John Paul II.

Clemens August Graf von Galen was beatified on October 9, 2005 outside St. Peter's Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI, the 47th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius ( 1958 ).

Calasanz, who died on 25 August 1648, was beatified in 1748, and canonized in 1767.

The marriage duly took place in August 1900.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

Beatty was posted to the China squadron and only returned to England after being wounded at the siege of Tsientsin, eighteen months later in August 1900.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Glasnevin became a township in 1878 and became part of the City of Dublin in 1900 under the Dublin Boundaries Act when it received the Royal Assent on August 6 1900.

* 2006 – August Bischof, last living Austrian World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell ( November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949 ) was an American author and journalist.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

Robert Siodmak ( 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973 ) was a German born American film director.

* August 16 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer ( b. 1900 )

* August 18 – Paul Mares, American musician ( b. 1900 )

* August 13 – Julien Green, French-born American writer ( b. 1900 )

* August 19 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor ( b. 1900 )

* August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 )

* August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 )

* August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India ( assassinated ) ( b. 1900 )

** August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat ( b. 1900 )

* August 6 – Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

In August 1900, Yerkes decided to become involved in the development of the London Underground railway system after riding along the route of one proposed line and surveying the City of London from the summit of Hampstead Heath.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

In August 1953, Foucault and Barraqué went on a holiday to Italy, where the philosopher immersed himself in Untimely Meditations ( 1873 – 1876 ), a collection of four essays authored by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ).

Wherever " decadence " had taken hold, there he could be found. Aubrey Beardsley: " The Death of Pierrot ", The Savoy ( periodical ) | The Savoy, August 1896. Paul Hoecker: Pierrots with Pipes, c. 1900.

* Theodor Casella, bank clerk, born 8 August 1900.

The Chinese army and Boxer irregulars besieged the Legation Quarter from 20 June to 14 August 1900.