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.

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.

On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered into a disastrous third marriage, with actress Mayo Methot, a lively, friendly woman when sober, but paranoid when drunk.

* 1938 – John August Swanson, American artist

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

In August 1938, Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police forces.

Robert Leroy Johnson ( May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938 ) was an American blues singer and musician.

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 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet ( b. 1938 )

* August 24 – Leonard Frey, American actor ( b. 1938 )

* August 12 – Pauline Frederick, American stage and screen actress, ( d. 1938 )

* August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver ( b. 1938 )

* August 3 – Nathan Post, 7th and 10th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1938 )

* August 28 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, ( d. 1938 )

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

" Bathhouse " John Coughlin ( August 15, 1860 – November 11, 1938 ) was an alderman of Chicago's First Ward from 1893 until his death.

On August 25, 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town.

In August 1938 Frank Barnwell was killed flying a light aircraft of his own design, and was succeeded as Chief Designer by Leslie Frise.

The couple had five children: Crown Prince Bảo Long ( 4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007 ), Princess Phuong Mai ( born 1 August 1937 ), Princess Phuong Lien ( born 3 November 1938 ), Princess Phuong Dung ( born 5 February 1942 ), and Prince Bảo Thắng ( born 9 December 1943 ).

He and his wife Marge were married August 13, 1938.

Mickey would return in The Whalers, first released on August 19, 1938, but this and also Tugboat Mickey, released on April 26, 1940 would be the last two shorts to feature all three characters as a team.

Their first child Princess Beatrix was born on 31 January 1938, and their second Princess Irene on 5 August 1939.

Nabil Ali Muhammad ( Abu Rashid ) Shaath (,, also spelled Sha ' ath ; born August 1938 in Safad ) is a senior Palestinian official.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

In August 2012, the band released a single called Don ’ t Roof Rack Me, Bro ( Seamus Unleashed ), dedicated to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's former pet dog Seamus.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August 1992 Republican National Convention, some Republican strategists ( led by Secretary of State James Baker ) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.

In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Ames Straw Poll of August 1999, he finished eighth.

He addressed the convention on July 15 at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan and on August 21 at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

On August 16, 1996, the Republican Party chose Kemp as its vice presidential nominee, running alongside former Senator Dole.

The lawsuit claimed that Blakeman had given a copyrighted screenplay called Go November to Grammer in 2006, and that Grammer agreed to develop the project and star as a Republican president but instead ended up playing a similar role in Swing Vote, which was released on August 1, 2008.

Dole resigned his Senate seat on June 11 and the Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP's nominee for President.

Wendell Willkie receives official notification of the Republican presidential nomination at a ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, August 17, 1940.

* August 4 – In China, the province of Chungking declares independence ; Chinese Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.

* August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.

* August 19 – U. S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.

* August 17 – The 1992 Republican National Convention convenes in Houston.