For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

It flew over one million miles, including an around-the-world flight in August 1929.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

They were married in July 1928, and their only child, Gudrun, was born on 8 August 1929.

Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

* 1929 – The Kellogg – Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

Mao's first appearance in The Times was in August 1929:

* Great Depression – August 1929 to September 1939: the longest ( and most severe ) recession of the 20th century

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

He died of diabetes in Venice on 19 August 1929, and is buried on the nearby island of San Michele.

On August 16 of this year the 1929 Palestine riots broke out between Palestinians and Jews over control of the Western Wall.

Two of the more famous incidents occurring during these riots were the August 23 and August 24 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 65 – 68 Jews were killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.

* August 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots breaks out between Palestinians and Jews and continues until the end of the month.

* August 23 and August 24 – The 1929 Hebron massacre, in which 65 – 68 Jews are killed by Palestinians and the remaining Jews are forced to leave Hebron.

* August 29 – The 1929 Safed massacre, in which 18 – 20 Jews are killed by Palestinians in Safed.

* August 11 – Anne Ramsey, American actress ( b. 1929 )

* August 20 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress ( b. 1929 )

* August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet ( d. 1929 )

* August 9 – Johann Büttikofer, Swiss zoologist ( d. 1929 )

On the other hand, using the first definition, the depression that started in August 1929 lasted until March 1933.

The first between August 1929 and March 1933 and the second starting in May 1937 and ending in June 1938.

* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 – 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.

On 10 August, Eugene sent an urgent dispatch reporting that he was falling back to Donauwörth – " The enemy have marched.

At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.

On the morning of 3 August, Nelson sent Theseus and Leander to force the surrender of the grounded Tonnant and Timoléon.

On 10 August Nelson sent Lieutenant Thomas Duval from Zealous with messages to the government in India.

On 14 August, Nelson sent Orion, Majestic, Bellerophon, Minotaur, Defence, Audacious, Theseus, Franklin, Tonnant, Aquilon, Conquérant, Peuple Souverain and Spartiate to sea under the command of Saumarez.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

The Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in July 1937, and in August of that year Chiang sent of his best-trained and equipped soldiers to defend Shanghai.

On August 4, 1852 Venezuela sent a diplomatic delegation in Quito and named José Julián Ponce as finance administrator.

To this effect, Chinna Venkatadri was sent to negotiate with the local Governor on August 4, 1687.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

" Clink ", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.

However, Pitt took a more direct role ; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

Britain sent a short-lived ground support force to Portugal, and French forces evacuated Portugal as defined in the Convention of Sintra following the Allied victory at Vimeiro ( 21 August 1808 ).

In August 2006 Italy sent about 3, 000 soldiers to Lebanon for the United Nations peacekeeping mission UNIFIL.

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

Mihdhar was placed on a CIA watchlist on August 21, 2001, and a note was sent on August 23 to the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) suggesting that Mihdhar and Hazmi be added to their watchlists.

In August 1956 he was sent to Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.

Mussolini sent a warship to shell the Greek island of Corfu, and Italian forces occupied the island on 31 August 1923.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.