*" A Voyage to Sfanomoe " — Weird Tales, August 1931 LW2

He was appointed Fleet Wireless Officer to the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1931, and having been promoted to commander on 31 December 1932, was posted to the battleship HMS Resolution.

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

From August to September 1931 his explorations of poverty continued, and, like the protagonist of A Clergyman's Daughter, he followed the East End tradition of working in the Kent hop fields.

Annotated edition of 11 diaries kept by the English writer, beginning in late August 1931 and ending in September 1949, a few months before his death.

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

Shooting began on 24 August 1931 and wrapped on 3 October.

On 1 August 1931 Heydrich began his job as chief of the new ' Ic Service ' ( intelligence service ).

* August 30 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist, painter, architect, and poet ( d. 1931 )

* August 18 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral ( d. 1931 )

* August 14 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director ( b. 1931 )

Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

Beiderbecke died in his apartment, No. 1G, 43-30 46th Street, in Sunnyside, Queens, on Thursday, August 6, 1931.

Pascal Lissouba ( born November 15, 1931 ) was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo from August 31, 1992 to October 15, 1997.

While Calthrop began the task of designing hundreds of costumes and dozens of sets, Coward worked on the script, which he completed in August 1931.

Later he acted as a private tutor to a handicapped child there and also undertook further tramping expeditions, culminating in a stint working in the Kent hop fields in August and September 1931.

Lyons served as acting Treasurer from August 1930 to January 1931 while Scullin was in Britain for the Imperial Conference.

The laboratory was founded as the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, associated with the Physics Department, on August 26, 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence as a site for centering physics research around his new instrument, the cyclotron ( a type of particle accelerator for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 ).

Mickey Charles Mantle ( October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995 ) was an American baseball center fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968.

Frank Harris ( February 14, 1856 – August 27, 1931 ) was an editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.

Married three times, Harris died in France on August 27, 1931, of a heart attack.

On August 13, 1931, Duston filed USPTO Patent Application # 556, 743 for " Method Of And Apparatus For Electrically Recording And Reproducing Sound And Other Vibrations ", and which was renewed in 1934.

He married a second time on 7 January 1964, to Françoise-Antoinette " Béatrice " Pancrazzi ( b. 28 July 1931 ), with whom he had two children: a daughter named Natacha ( b. 8 August 1964 ) and a son, Paul ( born in spring 1968 ).

The first military presence there was the encampment, on 10 August 1931 ( two months after the Major's death ), of his unit: the 104th Observation Squadron of the 29th Division, Maryland National Guard.

After Drese's release and Rogers ' suspension, the Rangers ' performance on the mound faltered, and a disastrous 1 – 12 August road trip all but sealed the squad's fate.

* August 13 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and jazz musician ( d. 1999 )

* August 10 – Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist and screenwriter ( b. 1893 )

* August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.

In August 1779, Point du Sable was arrested at Trail Creek by the British and imprisoned briefly at Fort Michilimackinac on suspicion of being a spy for the United States who had helped George Rogers Clark in his capture of Vincennes.

Daniel Boone joined General George Rogers Clark's invasion of the Ohio country in 1780, fighting in the Battle of Piqua on August 7.

In August 2006, Rogers was elected to the Board of Directors of Intertechnology, Inc.,

Starting in 1995, Hampshire Police began a series of at least 56 raids, code named ' Operation Washington ', that eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group ( ALFSG ) newsletter editor Simon Russell.

Conscious that March Field was located in an area of increasing growth, and with the need for bombing and gunnery ranges for his units, base and 1st Wing commander Lieutenant Colonel Henry H. " Hap " Arnold began the process of acquiring land next to the Rogers dry lake for a new bombing range away from population areas in August 1932 ( the last tract was not acquired until 1939 ).

* Rogers City Nautical Festival, first complete weekend in August

* Rogers City Salmon Tournament, second weekend in August

* Rogers City Nautical Festival, first complete weekend in August

* Rogers City Salmon Tournament, second weekend in August

Joseph Rogers was born August 21, 1764 near Cook's Town, Ireland, the son of James Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Brown.

On August 1, 1898 the USS Puritan under the command of Captain Frederic W. Rodgers, was sailing by the coastline of the city of Fajardo, when Rogers noticed the " Faro de Las Cabezas de San Juan " ( Cape San Juan lighthouse ) which was supposed to be the landing site for the US Army in Puerto Rico.

Illustration in Foxe's Book of Martyrs of Rogers ' execution at SmithfieldTen days later ( August 16, 1553 ), he was summoned before the council and bidden to keep within his own house.

William Penn Adair " Will " Rogers ( November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935 ) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor.

* August 13-Charles " Buddy " Rogers, actor and singer ( d. 1989 )

In August 1970, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt agreed to an " in place " ceasefire under the terms proposed by the Rogers Plan.

In August 1950, Evans and Rogers had a daughter, Robin Elizabeth, who had Down Syndrome and died of complications with mumps shortly before her second birthday.

Her last title in women's doubles came on August 21, 2006, at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, where she partnered Nadia Petrova.

In August 1932, Arnold began acquisition of portions of Rogers Dry Lake as a bombing and gunnery range for his units, a site that later became Edwards Air Force Base.

William Clark was born in Caroline County, Virginia, on August 1, 1770, the ninth of ten children of John and Ann Rogers Clark.

The agreement was originally slated to run through August 2012, however Rogers signed a long-term affiliation renewal agreement on May 3, 2012, allowing the Pattison stations to carry 90 % of primetime programming and the majority of morning and daytime programming from the programming grid of CKVU-DT ( including simulcasts of the Vancouver edition of Breakfast Television ; however unlike CKVU, the Pattison stations will continue to produce midday and evening local newscasts ).