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 )

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.

On June 15, 2011, at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Field Station, in Gwinnett County, Georgia personnel determined that Ep13, a non-infected female rhesus macaque was missing On August 16, 2011, the search for Ep13 ended.

( The court decided that Horch was a registered trademark on behalf of August Horch's former partners and August Horch was not entitled to use it any more ).

After an initial release in August 1935, the Commonwealth Department of Health decided to ban future introductions until a study was conducted into the feeding habits of the toad.

In August 1960, due to rejection of requests to the UN for aid to suppress the South Kasai and Katanga revolts, Lumumba's government decided to request Soviet help.

On 9 August, he announced that the government had decided to go ahead with its threatened embargo against the importing of Vanuatu kava.

" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

This posed a dilemma for the libertines, so on 21 August the council decided to write to other Swiss cities for their opinions, thus mitigating their own responsibility for the final decision.

1 August 2003, the Security Council, ( Resolution 1497 ) decided on a multinational force in Liberia, to be followed-on by a United Nations stabilization force.

The borders of Albania again became the cause of international conflict when Italian General Enrico Tellini and four of his assistants were ambushed and killed on 24 August 1923 while marking out the newly decided border between Greece and Albania.

Stalin had decided in August that he was going to liquidate the Polish state, and a German – Soviet meeting in September addressed the future structure of the " Polish region ".

Following formal discussions at the International Geological Congress, Oslo Norway, August 2008, the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) decided in May 2009 to make the Quaternary the youngest period of the Cenozoic Era with its base at 2. 588 Mya and including the Gelasian age, which was formerly considered part of the Neogene Period and Pliocene Epoch.

* Following his surrender to Captain Frederick Maitland of off Rochefort in 1815, Napoleon was taken to Plymouth Sound where he remained on board, 26 July – 4 August, while his future was decided.

In August, Cabinet decided that Menzies should travel back to Britain to represent Australia in the War Cabinet – but this time the Labor caucus refused to support the plan.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

In August 1209 King John decided to flex the English muscles by marching a large army to Norham ( near Berwick ), in order to exploit the flagging leadership of the ageing Scottish monarch.

In August 2008 after the Kosovo Constitution came into play, the UN decided to cut staff levels by 70 % during a UN reconfiguration in the country.

On 15 August, Cornwallis decided to detach 20 ships of the line from the fleet guarding the Channel and to have them sail southward to engage the enemy forces in Spain.

News of the two battles reached England in August, and, after several months of negotiations, the government of the Duke of Newcastle decided to send an army expedition the following year to dislodge the French.

When on August 8, 1919, the Polish Army captured Minsk, Adamowicz decided to work with them.

The First Partition of Poland, which the Poles proved incapable of resisting, was decided on August 5, 1772.

By an ordinance of Louis Philippe I of France of 13 August 1830, it was decided that the king's children ( and his sister ) would continue to bear the arms of Orléans, that Louis-Philippe's eldest son, as Prince Royal, would bear the title of duc d ' Orléans, that the younger sons would continue to have their existing titles, and that the sister and daughters of the king would only be styled " princesses d ' Orléans ", which meant the Orléans royalty did not take the name " of France ".

In August 1806, the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm III decided to go to war independently of any other great power except the distant Russia.

An English intervention became inevitable ; it was decided that Leicester would go to the Netherlands and " be their chief as heretofore was treated of ", as he phrased it in August 1585.

To outdo him, in August, Nasser decided to land 4, 000 Egyptian troops in the Syrian port city of Latakia, reclaiming his prestige, especially with the Syrian people.