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 )

* In August, the Westford Rotary Club hosts the Blues & Brews Festival at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area, featuring top blues bands and many local beers to sample, and in 2011, they reintroduced the Pig n ' Pepper Festival along with the Blues and Brews.

* Rotary rescue Extract from Jane's Defence Weekly article ( 3 August 2006 )

The Rotary Club of Traralgon Central is a part of Rotary http :/ www. district9820. org / and was Chartered 22nd August 1981.

John Doolittle, Steve Lund ( President of the Roseville Rotary International | Rotary ) and Julie Doolittle at a Rotary lunch on August 1, 2006.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

The Atlanta Falcons Football Club received its nickname on August 29, 1965.

Foremost among these was the Jacobin Club ; 152 members had affiliated with the Jacobins by 10 August 1790.

As of August 2008, an 18-story condominium high-rise called Capitol Club Tower is in the design phase with the adjacent parking structure already having been approved by city council and purchased by the developer.

They played their first-ever County Championship match there in 1921, competing there every season ( except while first-class cricket was suspended during the Second World War ), their last match being against Somerset County Cricket Club in August 1966.

On August 2, 2010, The Rocky Horror Picture Show Official Fan Club announced the release of the 35th Anniversary edition Blu-ray in the US for October 19, 2010.

* August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Former Working President of KVK, Cuttack ; Past District Governor of Lions Club International 322C & Former Chairman of IITM cuttack & is known as liondayon.

* August 29 – The Club Deportivo Motagua of Honduras is founded.

* On August 20, 2009 the Golden Gate Yacht Club announced that he had been retained in their ongoing dispute with Société Nautique de Genève regarding the 33rd America's Cup.

On the 31 August 1974, Mr David Scott Munro, of Ross-shire Caberfeidh Water Ski Club, became the first person in the world to water ski ( mono ski ) the length of Loch Ness, Scotland.

The Donegal Mountain Bike Club is the newest Mountain Bike club in Donegal, and held its first race on 31 August 2011.

By this point, the network was split into three programming blocks: Playhouse Disney, comprising shows aimed at preschoolers ; Vault Disney, featuring classic Disney material such as Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club, the Walt Disney anthology television series, older television specials and features such as The Love Bug ; and the most distinct one, running from afternoon to late evening for teenagers, called Zoog Disney ( which was introduced in August 1998, shortly after the Toon Disney cable channel was launched ), that used anthropomorphic robot-like characters with human voices called " Zoogs " as its hosts.

On August 19, 2009, while speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus, Calley apologized for his role in the My Lai massacre.

Also, in August 2010 former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote an article for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in which he cited Daniel Estulin ’ s 2006 book The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club, which, as quoted by Castro, describes " sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists " manipulating the public " to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.

Opposite the Southgate Club on Chase Side stood The Gate, which was closed in August 1909.

In August 1948, she made a point to stop by the Surf Club in Virginia Beach to visit one of her favorite artists, Louis Prima.

On August 13, 2009, County Supervisor Ray Watson announced that he wanted to appoint an advisory council to assist him in the governance of the area, which includes Frazier Park, Lebec, Fort Tejon and Tejon Village, Pinon Pines, Lake of the Woods, and Pine Mountain Club.

113 is the site of many town events including the Summer Fest Carnival sponsored by the Dunstable-Tyngsborough Lion's Club in June, the summer " Concerts on the Common " live performance series and the Grange Fair in August.

* Tean International – Challenger level ATP Tour tennis tournament, played at the Alphense Tennis Club, from 30 August to 8 September 2008.

Ocean Springs was severely damaged on August 29, 2005, by Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed many buildings along the shoreline, including the Ocean Springs Yacht Club, and the historic wooden Fort Maurepas, and gutted or flooded other buildings.

The annual Pork Chop Barbecue, a fund raising event for the Wausa Community Club, is held on a Saturday night in late July or early August.

The Randolph Mountain Club typically organizes two hikes per week in July and August, one difficult and one easier.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music asked Giamatti, its " 2007 BAM Cinema Club Chair ", to pick films for an eight-movie series called " Paul Giamatti Selects " and shown at the Academy in August and September 2007.

During the life of the festival, in 1999, the organisers launched the Bexhill 100 Motoring Club, so although the Festival no longer exists, the club still goes from strength to strength, and their committee organises each year, the Bexhill 100 Motoring Club Classic Car Show held on August bank holiday Monday in the Polegrove, Bexhill.