George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

*" The Treader of the Dust " — Weird Tales, August 1935 LW1

After an initial release in August 1935, the Commonwealth Department of Health decided to ban future introductions until a study was conducted into the feeding habits of the toad.

Enrollment had peaked at 505, 782 in about 2, 900 camps by 31 August 1935, followed by a reduction to 350, 000 enrollees in 2, 019 camps by 30 June 1936.

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

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.

Holt stood again for the federal House of Representatives on 17 August 1935, at a by-election for the marginally conservative seat of Fawkner, this time successfully.

The highest temperature ever recorded in the province was 38. 3 ° C ( 101 ° F ) on August 19, 1935, at Collegeville, which is located about 15 km southwest of Antigonish.

For Sydney, the highest temperature ever recorded was 36. 7 ° C ( 98 ° F ) on August 18, 1935, and the lowest was − 31. 7 ° C (− 25 ° F ) on January 31, 1873, and January 29, 1877

When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.

He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.

In August and September 2008, as part of the Riverside Project, Julian Richards and Mike Pitts excavated Aubrey Hole 7, removing the cremated remains from several Aubrey Holes that had been excavated by Hawley in the 1920s, and re-interred in 1935.

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.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson ( 3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935 ) was a

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 18 – Anna Ancher, Dansk painter ( d. 1935 )

* August 30 – Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator ( d. 1935 )

* August 16 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest-civil engineer ( d. 1935 )

* August 10 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer ( d. 1935 )

Nerone was premièred in Milan on January 16, 1935, followed by the première in Livorno on August 24.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO ( 16 August 1888 — 19 May 1935 ), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 – 18.

Trolley service operated for four decades, until, eclipsed by the growing popularity of the automobile, service was halted in August 1935.

Frank Robinson ( born August 31, 1935 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager.

In one adventure of Solar Pons -- the Sherlock Holmes pastiche created by August Derleth -- a Scottish nationalist very similar to Ian Hamilton, stole the Stone from Westminster in 1935.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

The glorification of Father Herman was performed on August 9, 1970, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, Alaska by the OCA with parallel services at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady, Joy of all who Sorrow in San Francisco by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

Similarly, Samuel Pepys in his diary entry for 15 August 1665 records a dream " that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my arms and was admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt that this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream ".

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

* August 17 – Ettie Garner, Second Lady of the United States ( b. 1869 )

* August 7 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of U. S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ( d. 1963 )

* August 14 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1803 )

* August 21 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer ( b. 1689 )

* 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 22 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, a supporter of Lady Jane Grey, is executed.

Lady Audley's Secret was partially serialized in Robin Goodfellow magazine July – September 1861, then entirely serialized in Sixpenny Magazine January – December 1862 and once again serialized in London Journal March – August 1863.

In Italian American communities in the United States, the July feast is generally dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel while the September feast, beginning in August, brings large numbers of visitors annually to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in New York City.

# Lady Diana Spencer ( 29 July 1981 – 31 August 1997 ) — Diana was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981.

* Lady Katherine Neville, married first on 12 January 1411 John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ; married second Sir Thomas Strangways ; married third John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont ; married fourth Sir John Woodville ( d. 12 August 1469 ).

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes ( 28 August 1831 – 25 June 1889 ) was a First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

On 20 August 1547, Bess married the twice-widowed Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King's Chamber, and became Lady Cavendish.

Print of the destruction in the Cathedral of Our Lady ( Antwerp ) | Church of Our Lady in Antwerp, the " signature event " of the Beeldenstorm, August 20, 1566, by Frans Hogenberg

( The deal did not include the black-and-white Looney Tunes films, the first Merrie Melodie film, Lady, Play Your Mandolin !, and the color cartoons released between August 1, 1948, and the close of 1949.

Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton ( 1874 – 1964 ), third daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, and Edith Villiers, married Lutyens on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

File: August Macke 005. jpg | August Macke, Lady in a Green Jacket, 1913

Catherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford ( 25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568 ), born Lady Catherine Grey, was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey.