* 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist ( d. 1964 )

* Elizabeth Gurley Flinn, Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers ' industrial efficiency

The town of Spokane, Washington had outlawed street meetings, and arrested Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a Wobbly organizer, for breaking this ordinance.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

The Pietro and Maria Botto House, located on the side of a hill surrounded by open spaces, provided a natural amphitheater for labor leaders of the day to address thousands of people who gathered to hear Big Bill Haywood, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and John Reed.

Among those jailed was feminist labor leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who published an account in the local Industrial Worker of her experiences in a Spokane jail.

Hill was the author of numerous labor songs, including " The Rebel Girl ," inspired by IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

This compilation featured the likes of " Haywire Mac " McClintock and Cisco Houston performing his songs as well as narrative interludes from Utah Phillips, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others.

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill HaywoodTresca joined the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, jailed on false murder charges.

When Harlan was a Circuit Judge in 1955, he authorized the decision upholding conviction of leaders of the communist party ( including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ) under the Smith Act.

The IWW responded by sending Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and a number of other organizers to Lawrence.

Over the next few years Mooney became friendly with some of IWW's leading figures such as William Haywood, Mary ' Mother ' Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ( 1890 – 1964 ), feminist socialist organizer

In 1920, Kellogg joined with Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, Crystal Eastman, Addams, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Abraham Muste, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Upton Sinclair to form the American Civil Liberties Union.

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Debs, Haywood, Ruthenberg.

He was a prominent speaker along with IWW leaders Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Carlo Tresca, and Patrick Quinlan at the historic 1913 Paterson Silk Strike of 1913.

Katterfeld, IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and prominent syndicalist William Z.

Some, like Giovannitti, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Vincent St. John, took the position that while the union did not favor violence, it would not shy away from its use if necessary to accomplish the social revolution.

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood

IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was the inspiration for Joe Hill's song, The Rebel Girl ( song ) | " The Rebel Girl " ( 1915 ).

* A message to all women communists from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on Mother's Day, May, 1950.

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaks to the Court: opening statement to the Court and statement in the case of the Sixteen Smith Act victims in the trial at Foley Square, New York .. New York, New Century Publishers, 1952.

* Camp, Helen C. Iron In Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left.

* 20px Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn-Free audiobook at LibriVox

* The 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex dramatised the Queen's relationship with Devereux, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn ; it is based on Maxwell Anderson's 1930 play Elizabeth the Queen and Lytton Strachey's romantic account Elizabeth and Essex.

Warner Bros. was so pleased with the results that they cast Flynn in two more color epics before the decade was over: Dodge City and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

She appeared in three other box office hits in 1939, The Old Maid with Miriam Hopkins, Juarez with Paul Muni and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Errol Flynn.

Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland in eight films: Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), Dodge City ( 1939 ), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ), and They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ).

During the shooting of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Flynn and co-star Bette Davis quarrelled off-screen, causing Davis to allegedly strike him harder than necessary while filming a scene.

In the mid-30s, he began the highly successful cycle of adventure films starring Errol Flynn that included Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk and Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).

Well known theatrical personalities from the Youngstown area include comedic actor Joe Flynn, screen actress Elizabeth Hartman, singer and Broadway performer Maureen McGovern, and television and screen actor Ed O ' Neill.

Another of his Tudor plays, Elizabeth the Queen, was adapted as The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), starring the legendary actress Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.

The show has featured guest stars such as Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama ( cast of That ' 70s Show ), Mike Vogel, Natasha Lyonne, Vincent Pastore, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Root, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson ( cast of The Kids in the Hall ), and Elizabeth Berridge ( Kevin Corrigan's real life wife ).

Flynn, the son of Jacques Flynn and Elizabeth Tostevin, was born at Percé on November 16, 1847.

It is based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

One of the earliest references to the clavichord in England occurs in the privy-purse expenses of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, in an entry dated August 1502:

The line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

The outcome was the Treaty of Nonsuch of August 1585, in which Elizabeth promised military support to the Dutch.

He invited Elizabeth to inspect her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August.

In August, Oxford attended Paul de Foix, who had come to England to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, the future King Henry III of France.

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.

Louis was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser HMS Lion in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of World War I.

# Johann ( b. Dresden, 24 August 1498 – d. Dresden, 11 January 1537 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 20 May 1516 to Elizabeth of Hesse.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

* Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11 – 13, Elizabeth, New Jersey

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

Ernst August was a second cousin of Sophia's mother Elizabeth Stuart, as they were both great-grandchildren of Christian III of Denmark.

On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt.

On 21 August 1952 James wed Valerie Elizabeth Patsy Assan ( born 1928 ), an actress who used Ashton as her stage name.

Trinidad and Tobago achieved full independence in August 1962 within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its titular head of state.

* August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet and novelist ( b. 1861 )

* August 4-Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ) born in London ( died 2002 )

* August 4 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen consort of George VI ; d. 2002 )

* August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, co-founder of Mount Saint Mary's University, founder of the Sisters of Charity ( d. 1821 )

* August 25 – Elizabeth Montagu, English literary critic ( b. 1718 )