* India got independence on 15 August 1947.

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

On 25 August 1946 the Blue Angels switched to the Grumman F8F Bearcat | F8F-1 Bearcat and in 1947 introduced the famous " diamond " formation at the World Air Carnival in Birmingham, Alabama | Birmingham, Alabama.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

That title was relinquished by the last Kaisar-i-Hind George VI when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947.

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.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

The country was born in bloodshed and came into existence on August 14, 1947 confronted by seemingly insurmountable problems.

In August 1947, the West Bengal became part of India and East Bengal became part of Pakistan.

* 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 )

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

He spent time in London, then in 1945 moved to the Lake District, where, in August 1947, he began work on the last Merzbau, which he called the Merzbarn.

It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.

In August 1947 the British partitioned the land, with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms Gandhi disapproved.

On 14 and 15 August 1947 the Indian Independence Act was invoked.

When it appeared that, in spite of heavy pressure, non-communist parties might receive in excess of 40 percent of the vote in the August 1947 Hungarian elections, an all-out repression was instituted to suppress independent political forces.

Charlie Parker, Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Max Roach, August 1947

Methadone was first manufactured in the USA by Eli Lilly, who obtained FDA approval on August 14, 1947, for their Dolophine 5 mg and 10 mg Tablets.

On August 19, 1947, the judges delivered their verdict in the " Doctors ' Trial " against Karl Brandt and several others.

Eventually, a united Pakistan with its wings – West Pakistan and East Pakistan – gained independence from the British, on 14 August 1947.

Following EIA and FCC recommendations, the BE modulator was modified to meet BTSC specifications, and by August 1984 was in full-time use on WTTW.

Ne Temere promulgated by Pius X, August 2, 1907 added ( and continues to enforce ) further specifications.

In August 1992, the Łucznik Arms Factory in Radom reintroduced the Vis pistol and produced a small series of some 27 pistols on the basis of the original plans and specifications, mainly for the collectors ' market.

Following these, further locomotives were built to similar specifications, entering service between August 1871 and July 1888.

There were three specifications: first, that Gale had visited a house of prostitution near the Marine Barracks " in open and disgraceful manner " on that same August 31 ; second, that he had on September 1-a date on which he was in custody-called Lieutenant Richard M. Desha, the Corps ' Paymaster and son of Congressman Joseph Desha of Kentucky-who had earlier charged Gale with misappropriation-" a damned rascal, liar and coward " and threatening him with personal chastisement unless he would immediately challenge and fight him ; and, finally, that he had declared in front of the Marine Barracks " that he did not care a damn for the President, Jesus Christ or God Almighty!

" However, as of August 2008, Toby Inkster, author of the " Swignition " ( formerly " Cognition ") microformat parsing service pointed out that no new microformat specifications had been published for over three years.

Ducati started its project to build an 800 cc MotoGP bike extremely early and according to Ducati's racing chief Filippo Preziosi, by August 2006 Ducati had already built twenty 800 cc engines with various specifications.

Its first specifications were published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ) on August 1, 2003 as TS 102 822-1 Broadcast and On-line Services: Search, select, and rightful use of content on personal storage systems (" TV-Anytime ")'.

By July, he had drawn the plans and specifications for the sluice which would connect the main drain to the Trent, and work began on it in August.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

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.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Early in August we broke ground for a new $3,500,000 plant in Warwick, Rhode Island, which will house our textile and coil winding machinery operations.

It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.

To silence extremists, to warn the Axis, President Roosevelt issued this statement for the Allies in August:

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

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.

* In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers

* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.

* The first week of August is " Indian Week " for the Penobscot Tribe in Old Town, Maine.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

* Father's Day or Bā bā Day ( 爸爸節 ), Bā Bā is Mandarin for " father " and " 8-8 ", or August 8.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

Allies within the capital opened the gates for him on August 24, and for three days his troops sacked the city.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

Summoned on 27 August 1695 before the Kirk Session for his " undecent carriage " ( indecent behaviour ) in church, he " did not comper, having gone away to be seas: this business is continued till his return ".