Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August, 1911 to July, 1912.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

In August 1912, Lee De Forest, the inventor of the audion, had also observed oscillations in his amplifiers, but he didn't understand its significance until he read Armstrong's patents in 1914, which he promptly challenged.

Eugene Curran " Gene " Kelly ( August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996 ) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.

* 1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer ( d. 1912 )

After returning to India in August 1912, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court and tried to settle down as a barrister.

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

In 1912, he was invited by August Thalheimer to go to Göppingen to temporarily replace him in control of the local party newspaper Freie Volkszeitung which was in financial difficulties.

In response, Trotsky organized a " unification " conference of social democratic factions in Vienna in August 1912 ( a. k. a. " The August Bloc ") and tried to re-unite the party.

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 1912, the President of Nicaragua, Adolfo Díaz, requested the resignation of the Secretary of War, General Luis Mena, concerned he was leading an insurrection.

During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 U. S. Marines landed at the port of Corinto and occupied León and the railway line to Granada.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

* 1836 – August Toepler, German physicist ( d. 1912 )

The Ottomans were ultimately expelled from the city on 12 August 1912 when 15, 000 Albanians marched on Üsküb.

* August 6 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer ( b. 1912 )

* August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher ( b. 1912 )

* August 12 – John Cage, American composer ( b. 1912 )

* August 21 – Ray Eames, American artist, designer, and filmmaker ( b. 1912 )

* August 11 – Jackson Pollock, American painter ( b. 1912 )

* August 24 – Hanna Reitsch, German aviator ( b. 1912 )

* August 15 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

The decrees proposed by the amici curiae were filed in August of 1958.

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.

This was working by the end of August and giving satisfactory service.

On August 3, two massive headlands reared out of the mists -- great gateways never before, so far as Hudson knew, seen by Europeans.

Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.

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.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

* Satellite photo of the Alps, taken on 31 August 2005 by MODIS aboard Terra

* August: Let's get rid of it, by David Plotz, Slate Magazine, slate. com

# Fixed-line telephony, held by Armentel until August 2007

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

Benzene, C < sub > 6 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub >, is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon and was recognized as the first aromatic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz in the 19th century.

* 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

Sack of Rome ( 410 ) | The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre | J-N Sylvestre ( 1890 )

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

The next separate edition was by August Matthiae, Leipzig 1827.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević