Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.

Establishment of provincial Extraordinary Commissions was largely completed by August 1918.

In August 1918, in the Soviet Republic had accounted for some 75 Uyezd-level Extraordinary Commissions.

On August 7, 1918 Sovnarkom adopted a decree on the organization of the railway section at VCheKa.

In August 1918, railway sections were formed under the Gubcheks.

There were 149 Civil-White Guards in Finland ( local units in towns and rural communes ) on 31 August 1917, 251 on 30 September, 315 on 31 October, 380 on 30 November 1917 and 408 on 26 January 1918.

He was taken a prisoner of war on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917 and was held at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained until December 1918.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (, ; August 18, 1870 – April 13, 1918 ) was a military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

Poznań is known as Posen in German, and was officially called Haupt-und Residenzstadt Posen (" Capital and Residence City of Poznań ") between 20 August 1910 and 28 November 1918.

In August 1918, Trotsky authorized General Mikhail Tukhachevsky to place blocking units behind politically unreliable Red Army units, to shoot them if they retreated without permission.

Arriving in San Francisco after having been released from questioning by immigration officials on Angel Island on 11 August 1918, Prokofiev was soon compared to other famous Russian exiles ( such as Sergei Rachmaninoff ), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements.

Wittgenstein wrote the notes for Tractatus while he was a soldier during World War I and completed it when a prisoner of war at Como and later Cassino in August 1918.

The Honorable H. Burton, speaking in London in August 1918 said, " Nothing struck our commanders in the East African field so much as the thorough, methodical and determined training of the German native levies previous to the war.

In the wake of Russian repudiation of Tsarist bonds, nationalization of foreign-owned property and confiscation of foreign assets, the Russians and Germans signed an additional agreement on August 27, 1918.

Theodore Samuel " Ted " Williams ( August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 ) was an American professional baseball player and manager.

In 1884 pathologist Georg Theodor August Gaffky ( 1850 – 1918 ) confirmed Eberth's findings, and the organism was given names such as Eberth's bacillus, Eberthella typhi and Gaffky-Eberth bacillus.

# Louisiana ( August 3, 1918 )

* August 28 – Robert Walker, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1918 )

* August 12 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia ( d. 1918 )

* August 18 – Frank Linke-Crawford, Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot ( d. 1918 )

* August 11 – Tom Drake, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* August 15 – Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate owner of the Hamburg America Line line ( d. 1918 )

In late July / early August, Tramiel representatives discovered the original Amiga contract from the previous fall.

Seeing a chance to gain some leverage, Tramiel immediately used the contract to counter-sue Commodore through its new subsidiary, Amiga, on August 13.

In November 1497, the French ambassador in the Holy See commissioned one of his most famous works, the Pietà, and the contract was agreed upon in August of the following year.

On August 26, 1849, the Nicaraguan government signed a contract with the U. S. businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt.

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

On 15 August 2008, during the 2008 South Ossetia war, Nord Stream, a Russian gas project, announced that it had signed a consulting contract with Lipponen.

On 8 August 1969, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation received a contract for the conversion of two existing S-IVB stages to the Orbital Workshop configuration.

Norwegian Computing Center got a UNIVAC 1107 August 1963 at a considerable discount, on which Dahl implemented the SIMULA I under contract with UNIVAC.

In August 1947 Short Brothers received a contract for the Short Sperrin SA. 4 based on the earlier less-stringent Specification B. 14 / 46 ; work began in November 1947.

Franchetti surrendered the rights in May 1895, and in August Puccini signed a contract to resume control of the project.

On 20 August 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach put out a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music.

On August 1, 2012, Vlaar officially joined Aston Villa, signing a three year contract.

* August Enron demands that Snohomish County PUD pay it $ 122 million for canceling its purchase contract.

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.

In August 2005, the government awarded a contract to a joint venture between China Mobile and a group of Yemeni investors to take a 55 percent stake in Yemen ’ s third mobile network ; the government will retain a 25 percent share.

In August 2006, the same conglomerate was awarded a contract for a fourth mobile network.

Eliakam Ashton won the contract to construct the building and completed it on a lot along Main Street on August 9, 1824, at a cost of $ 295.

On July 30, the Cavaliers signed free agent Joey Graham On August 16, the Cavs signed undrafted Jamaican rookie Samardo Samuels to a three-year contract.

In August 2008, the SEC announced an unprecedented 15-year television contract with CBS worth an estimated $ 55 million a year.

After the Kinks obtained a recording contract in early 1964, Davies emerged as the chief songwriter and de facto leader of the band, especially after the band's breakthrough success with his early composition " You Really Got Me ", which was released as the band's third single in August of that year.

In August 2006, the U. S. Department of Commerce extended its IANA contract with ICANN by an additional five years, subject to annual renewals.

On 11 August Steinar Nilsen was appointed coach signing a three and a half year contract with the club.

In August 2010 Brazil awarded a GPS Offender Monitoring contract to kick start its monitoring of offenders and management of the Brazilian governments early release programme

WAPA-TV signed a contract with Miss Puerto Rico Universe to transmit a reality show titled " Por la corona ", beginning on August 15, 2008.