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.

In August 1918, Pickford's contract expired and when refusing Zukor's terms for a renewal, she was offered $ 250, 000 to leave the motion picture business.

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.

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 )

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

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.

On 3 August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I which pitted Austria-Hungary against the Russian empire, Trotsky was forced to flee Vienna for neutral Switzerland to avoid arrest as a Russian émigré.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

* August 21 – Leon Trotsky dies of injuries sustained.

A significant number, including Leon Trotsky and Adolf Joffe, joined the non-factional Petrograd-based anti-war group called Mezhraiontsy, which merged with the Bolsheviks in August 1917.

It responded to the assassination of Leon Trotsky by a Soviet agent with an article on 23 August 1940 entitled " A Counter Revolutionary Gangster Passes ", written by former editor Campbell.

On 20 August 1940, Mercader attacked and fatally wounded Trotsky with an ice axe, while the exiled Russian was in the study at his home in Coyoacán ( then a village on the southern fringes of Mexico City ).

* In 1967, West German television presented L. D. Trotzki – Tod im Exil (" L. D. Trotsky-Death in exile "), a play in two parts, directed by August Everding, with Peter Lühr in the role of Trotsky.

In August 1940, after NKVD agent Ramón Mercader killed Leon Trotsky with an ice axe, Browder perpetuated Moscow's fiction that the killer, who had been dating one of Trotsky's secretaries, was a disillusioned follower.

In the wake of Lin Biao ’ s aborted coup attempt and death in September 1971, Kang was careful to distance himself from Mao ’ s disgraced former heir and from Chen Boda, who had been closely aligned with Lin at the Central Committee meeting in Lushan in August 1970 and who was denounced after Lin ’ s fall at “ China ’ s Trotsky .” Efforts to link Kang to Lin Biao ’ s plotting were unsuccessful and unsubstantiated.

In the crucial month of August 1920 alone, Polish cryptologists decrypted 410 signals: from Soviet General Mikhail Tukhachevsky, commander of the northern front ; from Leon Trotsky, Soviet commissar of war ; from commanders of armies, e. g. the commander of the IV Army, Sergieyev ; the commander of the Horse Army, Semyon Budionny ; the commander of the 3 Cavalry Corps, Gaya ; from the staffs of the XII, XV and XVI Armies ; from the staffs of the Mozyr Group ( named after the Belarussian city ); the Zolochiv Group ( after the Ukrainian town ); the Yakir Group General Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir ; from the 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 41, 44, 45, 53, 54, 58 and 60 Infantry Divisions ; from the 8 Cavalry Division, etc.

In May 1917, Joffe and Trotsky temporarily joined Mezhraiontsy who merged with the Bolsheviks at the VIth Bolshevik Party Congress held between 26 July ( all dates are Old Style until February 1918 ) and 3 August 1917.

* Ramon Mercader, a / k / a Jacques Monard, the man who had killed Leon Trotsky with an axe on August 20, 1940, was released from the penitentiary in Juarez, Mexico, after which he emigrated to the Soviet Union.

In August 1936 the NKVD arrested Putna and accused him of maintaining contacts with Leon Trotsky, from whom he had allegedly received " terrorist directives.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

The Navy authorized Full-Rate Production ( FRP ) of the AARGM in August 2012, with 72 missiles for the Navy and nine for the Italian Air Force to be delivered in 2013.

In August 1995, Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid authorized the INA to operate from Jordan after he too defected.

This provision was highly favored by the Pentagon which authorized the Department of Defense ( DoD ) to allow individuals who, on or after August 1, 2009, have served at least 6 years in the Armed Forces and who agree to serve at least another 4 years in the U. S. Armed Forces to transfer unused entitlement to their surviving spouse.

The Indiana General Assembly authorized the formation of Randolph County from Wayne County in January 1818 to take effect in August 1818.

Between August 1941 and September 1944, Streicher authorized articles demanding the annihilation and extermination of the Jewish race.

On August 24, 1805 the Indiana Territorial Legislature authorized the construction of a canal around the Falls of the Ohio at Clarksville.

On 13 January 1837, in the aftermath of the cure of Venerable Pauline Jaricot, Pope Gregory XVI authorized liturgical celebration of Philomena on 11 August or, according to another source, originally on 9 September, first in the Diocese of Nola ( to which Mugnano del Cardinale belongs ), and soon in several other dioceses in Italy.

In the 1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal Philomena is mentioned, under 11 August ( with an indication that the Mass for her feastday was to be taken entirely from the common, so that there was no part, not even the collect, that was proper to her ) in the section headed " Masses for some places ", i. e. only those places for which it had been specially authorized.

According to a memo discovered by historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi, Prince Higashikuni authorized the use of poison gas against the Chinese on 16 August 1938.

In August 1950, the building to house the ROTC unit was authorized.

*, was one of 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress, launched in August 1776 ; and scuttled in November 1777 to prevent capture

:- August 11 – USA President F Roosevelt has authorized a minister of agriculture H. Wolles to sign the Roerich Pact from USA.

In August 1852 an act of the U. S. Congress authorized the Postmaster General to provide " suitable letter envelopes with such watermarks or other guards against counterfeits ... with the addition of the value or denomination of the postage stamps so printed or impressed thereon ...".

Pendleton served as President of the Virginia Committee of Safety from August 16, 1775 to July 5, 1776 ( effectively serving as governor of the colony ) and as President of the Virginia Convention which authorized Virginia's delegates to propose a resolution to move for the break from Britain and creation of the Declaration of Independence.

" The government began operation of this local post on August 16, 1842, under an Act of Congress of some years earlier that authorized local delivery.

" Recall supporters organized an authorized ( licensed by local police ) march opposite a hotel hosting a WAR seminar on August 15, 2003.

In August 1852 an act of the U. S. Congress authorized the Postmaster General to provide " suitable letter envelopes with such watermarks or other guards against counterfeits ... with the addition of the value or denomination of the postage stamps so printed or impressed thereon ...".

The 134th Battalion was authorized on 22 December 1915 and embarked for Britain on 8 August 1916, where it provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until 7 March 1918, when its personnel were absorbed by the 12th Reserve Battalion, CEF.

FEMA issued a statement dated August 27, that President Bush authorized the allocation of federal resources, " following a review of FEMA's analysis of the state's request for federal assistance.

FON operations intensified when Ronald Reagan came to office ; in August 1981, he authorized a large naval force, led by USS Forrestal and Nimitz, to deploy to the disputed area.

Development of the S-25 was authorized on 9 August 1950 by a decision of USSR and was appended by Stalin: ( We have to get the missile for air defense in a year ).

The 10th ( Irish ) Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions ( formed from Kitchener's ' first hundred thousand ' new volunteers ), authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.

On August 22, 1977, UNCW was authorized to offer its first graduate programs at the master's level.