Scherer persuaded retired businessman and trustee Charles W. Gates to donate $ 25, 000 in seed money to build Gates Laboratory, the first science building on campus.

* Peace – Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

After the 1882 death of their father, brothers Charles Arthur and Leonard Gates took over the running of his shop, which held the local distribution franchise for Gilbey's wines and spirits, and also sold beer.

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Several celebrities, including Bill Gates, Ricky Martin, Benjamin Rose, Andrew Charles Rose and Paul Newman, maintain homes there.

All four brothers became nationally prominent businessmen and / or politicians: Charles Gates Dawes, Rufus C. Dawes, Beman Gates Dawes and Henry May Dawes.

Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. ( MIT class of 1954 ), Charles Thomas " E. B " Pritchard Hintze ( a graduate and of JD Edwards, now Oracle ) and Morris Chang of TSMC.

* " Melody " m. Charles Gates Dawes

Among the British were Thomas Gage ; Charles Lee, future American president George Washington, and Horatio Gates.

On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates about 10 km ( five miles ) north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.

Bush, Prince Charles, Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Gareth Gates, Chris Eubank, Rolf Harris, George Michael, David Beckham, Trevor McDonald, Michael Jackson, Johnny Vegas, Steve Irwin, Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, Uri Geller, Bill Gates, Liam Gallagher, Anthony McPartlin, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Roy Keane, Michael Owen, Alex Ferguson, Ozzy Osbourne, Guy Ritchie, Iain Duncan Smith, Richard Madeley

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

The delegates did consider nominating Vice President Charles Dawes to be Hoover's running mate.

But Coolidge ( who hated Dawes ) remarked that this would be " a personal affront " to him, and the convention selected Senator Charles Curtis instead.

Thus, as Time magazine wrote during the controversial tenure of Vice President Charles G. Dawes, " once in four years the Vice President can make a little speech, and then he is done.

The next Vice President, Charles G. Dawes, did not seek to attend Cabinet meetings under President Coolidge, declaring that " the precedent might prove injurious to the country.

Charles Dawes — the first budget director

Harding appointed Charles Dawes, known for being an effective financier, as the first director of the Bureau of the Budget.

* April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1865 )

** Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1951 )

Charles G. Dawes, a prominent Republican businessman, was nominated for vice-president instead.

In the few primaries that mattered, Hoover did not perform as well as expected, and it was thought that the president or Vice-President Charles G. Dawes might accept a draft in case of a deadlock, but Lowden withdrew just as the convention was about to start, paving the way for a Hoover victory.

From 1909 to 1951, Charles G. Dawes lived in this Charles G. Dawes House | house at 225 Greenwood St. in Evanston, Illinois, which was built in 1894 by Robert Sheppard.

Gen. Charles Dawes during World War I.

" The choice of poem was based on Charles Dawes being descended from William Dawes, who rode with Paul Revere.

Designated a National Historic Landmark, the Charles G. Dawes House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Early Career of Charles G. Dawes.

Charles G. Dawes: Businessman in Politics.

Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes.

On 31 August, in the great Charles Alcock-edited magazine Cricket: A Weekly Record of The Game, there appeared a mock obituary:

On 7 August 1919, Charles Godefroy successfully flew his biplane under the Arc.

Charles J. Urstadt, the first Chairman and CEO of the BPCA, noted in an August 19, 2007 op-ed piece in the New York Post that the aggregate figure of funds transferred to the City of New York is above $ 1. 4 billion, with the BPCA continuing to contribute $ 200 million a year.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

In August, Charles was arrested and released on bail pending further enquiries and, in September, he accepted a caution for possession of a Class A drug.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

* Charles Journet ( 8 August 1971 – 5 March 1973 )

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

In August, an official visit to the territory by then French President, General Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

* 1705 2 August – The Archduke Charles stopped over in Gibraltar on his way to the territories of the Crown of Aragon.

From September 1520 to August 25 he was the Republic's ambassador to Charles V, with whom Venice was soon at war, instructed to defend the Republic's alliance with Francis I of France.

On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

* 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.

Other Friedman tunes include " The Ballad of Charles Whitman ," in which Friedman lampooned Whitman's sniper attack from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building tower on August 1, 1966.

On August 20, 1804, Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis.

August 1995, factions signed an agreement largely brokered by Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian President ; Charles Taylor agreed.

August 21, they selected businessman Charles Gyude Bryant as Chair of the National Transitional Government of Liberia ( NTGL ), effective on October 14.

Due to intense pressure from the international community and the United States, Charles Taylor resigned his office on August 11, 2003.

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

" In August, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson set up a task force to study the response of U. S. prisoners of war to brainwashing.