* August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1811 )

* August 3, 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps,

* August 30 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer ( b. 1811 )

When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm ( June 1811 ).

The contract for the construction of the first section was awarded to Henry McKinley on May 8, 1811, and construction began later that year, with the road reaching Wheeling on August 1, 1818.

August 29, 1811

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872 ) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic.

Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France.

Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss ( October 10, 1764 – April 5, 1816 ) and Barbara Dollmann ( December 3, 1770 – August 28, 1811 ), were innkeepers ().

This colossal work was first proposed in a report by Rennie, dated 22 April 1806 ; an order in council authorising its commencement was issued on 22 June 1811, and the first stone was deposited on 12 August following.

11 August 1811.

Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet ( 3 June 1736 – 12 August 1811 ) was commander of the naval forces of Grand Duchy of Tuscany and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV.

* August 5-Fanny Lewald, novelist ( born 1811 )

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC ( August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884 ) was an American politician and lawyer who served in cabinet level positions in the Confederate States of America, including Secretary of War and Secretary of State.

John Leyden ( September 8, 1775 – August 28, 1811 ) was a British orientalist.

Having entered a library which was said to contain many Eastern manuscripts, without having the place aired, he was seized with Batavian fever ( possibly malaria or dengue ) and died, after three days ' illness, on 28 August 1811.

One of his paintings was exhibited at the Norwich Society of Artists as early as 1811 and there was a positive review of his work in a local newspaper, " The Norwich Mercury ", in August 1818.

Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel ( 11 May 1811 – 6 August 1893 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1864-1872 ).

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville ( 12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811 ) was a French admiral and explorer.

He died in Paris on the August 31, 1811.

He was married on August 29, 1776 to Elizabeth Nicholas ( daughter of Robert C. Nicholas ), and had a total of six children, including Peyton Randolph, Governor of Virginia from 1811 to 1812.

The summit was first reached on 3 August 3 1811 by the Meyer brothers of Aarau and two chamois hunters from Valais.

* August 21-Charles West Cope, painter ( born 1811 )

On 28 August 1827, the canal company announced that they were taking over the River Tone Navigation, under the terms of their acts of parliament of 1811 and 1824.

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.

Among individual dealers questioned in nearly a score of states, two out of three report their sales since August 1 show sizable gains from a year earlier, with the increases ranging from 5% to 50%.

Many Japanese manufacturers and firms give their employees three to five days off around the 15th of August.

Allies within the capital opened the gates for him on August 24, and for three days his troops sacked the city.

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

* Hero of Socialist Labour, three times ( August 12, 1953, June 20, 1956, March 7, 1962 )

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

On 19 August 1915, sank the White Star Liner with the loss of 44 lives-this included three Americans and led to a diplomatic incident between Germany and the US.

In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for the purpose of preserving the work of H. P.

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.

Because he could still be useful to a contending team, the Rockies traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in August for three minor-leaguers.

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August.

Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

On 24 August 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year, a fire broke out in Rome which lasted three days and which destroyed a number of important public buildings.

Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, three ships of COMPSRON 2 sortied, delivering a Marine Expeditionary Brigade to Saudi Arabia to defend that kingdom and ultimately liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.

In August 2012, Steven Barker, Ethan McIlHenny, and Rick Strassman, developed a new method to measure the three known endogenous hallucinogens and their major N-oxide metabolites in blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, ocular fluid and / or other tissues by using state-of-the-art liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry ( LC / MS ) equipment.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

In August, when Velasco was ousted by his minister of defense, nobody rose to defend the man who, only three years earlier, had been hailed as the nation's savior.

He was the second of three children ( his older brother was August Coppola and younger sister is actress Talia Shire ).

Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

Between early August 1994 when Rawlings became ECOWAS chairman and the end of the following October, the Ghanaian president visited Nigeria three times to discuss the peace process in Liberia and measures to restore democracy in that country.

The couple later had three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl ( born 1992 ), August Anna ( born 1994 ) and Allie Colleen ( born 1996 ).