In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

In August 1926, Hayek married Helen Berta Maria von Fritsch, a secretary at the civil service office where Hayek worked.

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 ( through the August Amendment ) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerus diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature.

The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August 1926, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, was set up to carry out the car-manufacturing business within the SKF group.

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.

Don Juan premiered at the Warner Theater in New York on August 6, 1926.

* August 1 – Poul Anderson, American author ( b. 1926 )

* August 15 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki ( d. 1926 )

* August 13 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer ( b. 1926 )

* August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress ( b. 1926 )

* August 28 – John Collum, American actor ( b. 1926 )

* August 13 – Annie Oakley, American west show performer ( d. 1926 )

* August 26 – Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth ( d. 1926 )

* August 1 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman ( d. 1926 )

* August 31 – Emperor Taishō, 123rd Emperor of Japan ( d. 1926 )

* August 24 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist ( b. 1926 )

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; born August 13, 1926 ) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

Rudolph Valentino ( May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926 ) was an Italian actor, known simply as " Valentino " and also an early pop icon.

On August 15, 1926, Valentino collapsed at the Hotel Ambassador in New York City, New York.

It was first presented to August Belmont, Jr. in 1896 and donated by the Belmont family for annual presentation in 1926.

David Eugene Tudor ( January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996 ) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

* August 28, 1988: Mario Naldini and Ivo Nutarelli, Italian Air Force-the pilots who crossed Flight 870's path on June 27 over Tuscany-mid air collision during the 1988 Ramstein Air Show.

Ivo Pelay ( May 5, 1893 – August 28, 1959 ) was one of Argentina's most prolific playwrights of the early 20th century.

More recently, the literary historian Ivo Frangeš said that the prophetic and bitter energy of its poems, although occasionally falling into pathos and rhetoric, embraced universal and cosmic themes, which made the young Kranjčević stand out among his contemporaries, such as August Harambašić, whose main themes were declamatory patriotism or romantic love.

Ivo declined into a tropical storm again on August 9, and by August 10 the cyclone lost its deep convection along with organization.

Ivica " Ivo " Grlić ( born 6 August 1975 in Munich, West Germany ) is a Bosnian former football midfielder.

Ivan " Ivo " Vojnović ( also Iván de Vojnovich ; 9 October 1857 – 30 August 1929 ) was a Croatian and Serbian writer from Dubrovnik.

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.

Bligh was appointed Commanding Lieutenant of Bounty on 16 August 1787, at the age of 32, after a career that included a tour as sailing master of James Cook's HMS Resolution during Cook's third and final voyage ( 1776 – 1779 ).

** 16 August: William Bligh is ordered to command a breadfruit gathering expedition to Tahiti

Notable politicians have declared support for independence, including Bob Katter and former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, who in August 2011 wrote to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in support of Torres Strait Islands independence from Australia ; Prime Minister Gillard said in October 2011 " her government will respectfully consider the Torres Strait's request for self-government ".

** William Joseph Stirling, of Keir ( 9 May 1911-1983 ), married on 22 November 1940 Susan Rachel Bligh ( 12 August 1916-1983 ), daughter of The Hon.

In August 1787 Heywood was offered a berth on the Bounty, for an extended cruise to the Pacific Ocean under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh.

With the help of former Bounty midshipman Thomas Hayward-a Bligh loyalist recently returned to England from the South Pacific-Edwards succeeded in finding fourteen mutineers, but the Pandora was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on 29 August 1791 during the journey home from the South Pacific.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

CERT and Citizen Corps were transferred to the Office of Domestic Preparedness ( now the Office of Grants and Training ) in August 2004.

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 ).

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

Austria itself was now facing the direct threat of invasion from across the border in Bavaria where the state's Elector, Maximilian Emanuel, had declared for the Bourbons in August the previous year.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

In August 2007, the now defunct Warner Independent Pictures announced that television producer Kurt Sutter would be remaking the film as a noir-style thriller entitled Awaken the Dragon.

* 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 )

Blair now contributed regularly to Adelphi, with " A Hanging " appearing in August 1931.

In 1770 Lessing became librarian at the ducal library, now the Herzog August Library ( Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Bibliotheca Augusta ), in Wolfenbüttel.

A new version of the RuneQuest rules, now titled " RuneQuest Sixth Edition " has been produced in August 2012, but Gloranthan material has not yet been updated specifically for this edition.

The second and last incumbent of the office, Yusof bin Ishak, kept the style at the 31 August 1963 unilateral declaration of independence and after the 16 September 1963 accession to Malaysia as a state ( so now as a constitutive part of the federation, a non-sovereign level ).

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the August Derleth Society.

On 25 August Collins wrote to the Príomh Aire, Éamon de Valera, to inform him " the Volunteer affair is now fixed ".

Only 7 employees now remain employed at the company's original site and the outlet shop will close at the end of August 2009.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record which has now stood for over 20 years.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.