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.

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Arthur N. Young of the Department of State was selected for this task and began work in Honduras in August 1920, continuing to August 1921.

* Science and Invention — formerly Electrical Experimenter ; published August 1920 to August 1931

Polish – Soviet War, Battle of Warsaw ( 1920 ) | defenses near Warsaw, August 1920

In no small measure through the diplomatic efforts of Venizelos, Greece secured Western Thrace in the Treaty of Neuilly in November 1919 and Eastern Thrace and a zone around Smyrna in western Anatolia ( already under Greek administration since May 1919 ) in the Treaty of Sèvres of August 1920.

Though this was " fixed " at one level, another year passed before the Volunteers took an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic and its government, " throughout August 1920 ".

Thus, the third phase of the war ( roughly August 1920 – July 1921 ) involved the IRA taking on a greatly expanded British force, moving away from attacking well defended barracks and instead using ambush tactics.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

The First Assembly in December 1920 recommended that the Council take action aiming at the international organization of intellectual work, which it did by adopting a report presented by the Fifth Committee of the Second Assembly and inviting a Committee on Intellectual Cooperation to meet in Geneva in August 1922.

* Mesopotamia ( United Kingdom ), from 10 August 1920 – 3 October 1932.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920: " draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League ... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations ,"

Spending four years raising money, Flaherty was eventually funded by French fur company Revillon Frères and returned to the North and shot from August 1920 to August 1921.

Pacelli was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Germany on 23 June 1920, and — after the completion of a Bavarian concordat — his nunciature was moved to Berlin in August 1925.

Nurmi made his international debut in August at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.

Most of what is known as Lansing today is the direct result of the city becoming an industrial powerhouse which began with the founding of Olds Motor Vehicle Company in August 1897.

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

On 12 August that year, Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the second ship, Sulphur, cut down a tree to mark the founding of the town.

The 350th Anniversary of the founding of Rhode Island was celebrated with a free concert held on the tarmac of the Quonset State Airport on August 31, 1986.

This contains articles corresponding to talks presented at the founding convention of the Mars Society in Boulder, Colorado in August 1998 ; it includes contributions from Zubrin, Buzz Aldrin, Martyn Fogg, and many others.

* 8 August 1967-Singapore becomes a founding member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ).

In August 1990, founding member Hugh Cornwell left the band to pursue a solo career.

The UAP was absorbed into the new Liberal Party of Australia ( with Menzies as leader ) at the founding of the latter organisation on 31 August 1945.

" This, and the fact that the voyages " were contrary to the rules stipulated in the Huangming zuxun, Ancestral Injunctions of the August Ming ," the royal founding documents laid down by the Hongwu Emperor, account for the Ming " neglect " of Zheng He in official accounts and the scant records of the voyages available for later historians.

* August 13 – The Zionist World Congress approaches the British government to discuss the founding of the country of Israel.

* August 12, 1829 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.

* August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.

* Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism ( 551 – August 27, 479 BC )

* August 22 – The British East India Company buys a strip of land from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda Venkata Raya, so founding modern-day Chennai, capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

* August 21 – The church ( later cathedral ) of Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez ( Puerto Rico ) is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.

* August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1, 500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U. S. ( St. Augustine is founded in 1565.

In June 1675, another royal warrant provided for the founding of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Flamsteed laid the foundation stone in August.

The founding company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy nine months later, on August 13, 1999.

On August 12, 2161, Vulcan became one of the founding members of the United Federation of Planets.

William Herbert " Buck " Dunton ( 28 August 1878 – 18 March 1936 ) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

Ernest Thompson Seton ( August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946 ) was a Scots-Canadian ( and naturalized U. S. citizen ) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ).

A temple of Venus in the grove of Libitina celebrated its founding anniversary August 19, the day of the Vinalia Rustica.

With 100 years of recorded history, the citizens of Tell City held a centennial celebration August 10 – 17, 1958 in honor of the early settlers and the founding of Tell City.

* August Weenaas ( 1835 – 1924 ), founding President of Augsburg College

Every year in the month of August, the town celebrates Ames Day, both to commemorate the founding of the town and to raise funds for the town's volunteer fire department.