* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

November ends on the same day of the week as August every year.

However, according to the Irish Calendar summer begins 1 May and ends 1 August.

In Chinese astronomy, summer starts on or around 5 May, with the jiéqì ( solar term ) known as lìxià ( 立夏 ), i. e. " establishment of summer ", and it ends on or around 6 August.

In many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, winter begins on 1 June and ends on 31 August.

The school year in many countries starts in August or September and ends in May, June or July.

* On August 23, 2005, Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.

** Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam ( the battle ends August 10 ).

* August 23 – The Battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.

* August 20 – August 21 – The Prague Spring of political liberalization ends, as 200, 000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5, 000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia.

* August 7 – Operation Storm ends with a UN-brokered ceasefire ; remaining Serbian forces start surrendering.

* August 8 – Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

* August 23 – The Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian War.

* August 30 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.

* August 20 – The Iran – Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.

* August – The United States formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany.

* August 24 – The Red River Rebellion ends with the arrival of the Wolseley Expedition and the fleeing of Louis Riel.

* August 25 – The general strike ends in France.

* August 31 – The First Carlist war ( Spain ) ends with the Convenio de Vergara, also known as the Abrazo de Vergara (" the embrace in Vergara "; Bergara in Basque ), between liberal general Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana and Carlist General Rafael Maroto.

* August 14 – The Treaty of Värälä ends the Russo-Swedish War.

* August 29 – The Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony.

* August 1-The First Indochina War ends with the Viet Minh in Vietnam, the Khmer Issarak in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos emerging victorious against the French Army and the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong.

* August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war in France.

Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

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.

Considering the governor's act a personal rebuff, he aired his feelings in The Gazette on August 26, 1834::

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.

The other four states end on varying dates: Alabama ( Sept. 30 ), New York ( March 31 ), Pennsylvania ( May 31 ), and Texas ( August 31 ).

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.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

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.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

she died on August sixth.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

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.

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 died on August 25, most likely of typhoid fever.

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.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

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.

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

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

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.