* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

Charlton's first Football League match was against Exeter City in August 1921, which they won 1 – 0.

Gardner made a final visit to Cottingley in August 1921.

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.

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.

Bachrach trained Weissmuller and in August 1921, Weissmuller won the national championships in the 50-yard and 220-yard distances.

After the assassination of Milorad Drašković, the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, by a young communist on 2 August 1921, the CPY was declared illegal under the Yugoslav State Security Act of 1921.

On 12 August 1921, the League was asked to settle the matter ; the Council created a commission with representatives from Belgium, Brazil, China and Spain to study the situation.

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.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

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.

* 1872 – August Nilsson, Swedish athlete ( d. 1921 )

But on 3 August 1921, the GNA resigned İsmet Pasha from the Minister of National Defence because of his failure at Eskişehir-Kütahya and on 5 August, just before the Battle of Sakarya, appointed the chairman of GNA Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( Atatürk ) to the commander-in-chief of the Army of the GNA.

Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan was growing in urban chapters across the Midwest, particularly since veterans had been returning from the war ; it made its first major appearance in Oklahoma later that year on August 12, 1921, less than three months after the riot.

Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States ( 1921 – 1923 ).

" On August 9, 1921, President Harding signed legislation known as the " Sweet Bill ", which established the Veterans Bureau as a new agency.

He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926 ; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930 ; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.

* August 8 – Richard Deacon, American actor ( b. 1921 )

* August 16 – Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer ( b. 1921 )

* August 30 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer ( b. 1921 )

* August 19 – Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Chongqing to discuss an end to hostilities between the Communists and the Nationalists.

* August 25 – The Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9, 000 people.

On August 22, 1966, Mao issued a notice to stop " all police intervention in Red Guard tactics and actions.

The first post-war peace negotiation was attended by both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in Chongqing from August 28, 1945 to October 10, 1945.

Mao abruptly summoned a party congress in August 1973.

Su Zhu ( 16 February 1921 – 20 August 2008 ), better known by the nom de guerre Hua Guofeng, was Mao Zedong's designated successor as the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China.

At the August 20, 1937 Lochuan Conference, Mao believed that the united front should be used as a feint, giving token resistance to the Japanese while saving the strength of the Red Army for the eventual confrontation with the Kuomintang, but Peng, along with most other senior military and political leaders at the time, disagreed, and believed that the Red Army should genuinely focus on fighting the Japanese.

Peng's forces were pushed back to the border of Inner Mongolia, but finally managed to decisively defeat Hu's forces in August, in the Battle of Shachiatien, saving Mao and other members from the Central committee from being taken prisoner.

Zhou repaid Lin's assistance by giving him excessive public praise three months later, in August, but was forced to write a formal apology to Lin after Lin complained to Mao that such praise was inappropriate.

During the Second Plenary Session of the 9th Central Committee, from August – September 1970, Mao became uncomfortable with Lin's growing power, and began to maneuver against Lin by undermining his supporters and attacking some of Lin's suggestions at the conference.

Mao was unaware of the coup plot ; and, in August 1971, scheduled a conference for September to determine the political fate of Lin Biao.

On August 15 Mao left Beijing to discuss the issue with other senior political and military leaders in southern China.

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 August of that year, Mao established the Cultural Book Institute in Changsha.

Mao expressed personal approval and support for the Red Guards in a letter to Tsinghua University Red Guards on 1 August 1966.

* Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan meets with Communist Party of China Secretary-General Hu Jintao in the highest level contact between leaders of the two parties since the meeting of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in August 1945 at the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

They were hailed as the highest level of exchange between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang since Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong met in Chongqing, China on August 28, 1945.

Three Danish citizens, Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, and Mogens Glad, founded Borland Ltd. in August 1981 to develop products like Word Index for the CP / M operating system using an off-the-shelf company.

In 1942, three years after August Derleth founded Arkham House for the purpose of preserving the work of H. P.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

Pierre-Félix Guattari ( ) ( April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992 ) was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician ; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy.

It was founded August 18, 1965 as FC Den Bosch / BVV.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

In August 1934, Ribbentrop founded an organisation linked to the Nazi Party called the Büro Ribbentrop ( later renamed the Dienststelle Ribbentrop ).

The first Christian mission was founded on August 25, 1846, by Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German sponsored by the Church Missionary Society of England.

In August 2007, the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health ( LWBIWH ) was founded at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

On August 15, 1519, Pedrarias, having abandoned Santa María la Antigua del Darién, moved the capital of Castilla del Oro with all its organizational institutions to the Pacific Ocean's coast and founded Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá ( present day Panama City ), the first European settlement on the shores of the Pacific.

The New Progressive Party ( PNP ) was founded in August, 1967 by Luis A. Ferré, a month after the July 23, 1967 local plebiscite and the year before the PNP won the 1968 elections.

In August 1253, after much worry about the order's insistence on absolute poverty, Innocent finally approved the rule of the 2nd Order of the Franciscans, the Poor Clares, founded by St. Clare of Assisi, the great friend of St Francis.

He was a friend of the Jesuits, to whom he granted a fresh confirmation in 1550 ; and through the Papal bull, Dum sollicita of August 1552, he founded the Collegium Germanicum, and granted an annual income.

The Red Brigades were founded in August 1970 by Renato Curcio and Margherita ( Mara ) Cagol, who had met as students at the University of Trento and later married, and Alberto Franceschini.

In August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru became the prime minister of independent India, and the family settled in Allahabad, and then at Lucknow, where Feroze became the editor of the National Herald newspaper ( founded by Motilal Nehru ).

He joined the Tangier committee in August 1662 when the colony was first founded, and became its treasurer in 1665.

Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ), the first twelve-step fellowship, was founded on August 11, 1938 ( although some speculate the date as being June 10, 1935 which is the date that Dr. Bob had his last drink ) by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, known to AA members as " Bill W ." and " Dr. Bob ", in Akron, Ohio.

* August 3 – The New York Guard is founded.

* August 8 – The Hoover Company founded.

* August 1 – The U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.

* August 25 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

* August 28 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines, the first American private school in the country.