The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

In 1955 August Busch Jr. made a strategic move to expand Budweiser's national brand and distributor presence.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

Chiang Ching-kuo orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, for plotting a coup d ' état with the American CIA against his father Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.

He arrived in British Guiana in August 1934, and returned to the United States in October 1955.

From August 8 to August 20, 1955, the United Nations held the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland.

On occasions, as in August 1955, the town has had measurable rain on every day of a month in this period.

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Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

In August 1955, black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with a young white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi.

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

The last British troops, 1st Battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment, left the country on 16 August 1955.

All of the British troops were gone by the end of August 1955.

The Equatoria Corps mutinied at Torit on 18 August 1955, just before independence, prompting the formation of the Anyanya guerilla movement and the First Sudanese Civil War.

* On 19 August 1955 Hurricane Diane hit the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $ 1. 0 billion in damage.

* August 8 – Matthew Henson, American explorer ( d. 1955 )

* August 6 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network has its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.

* August 29 – Charlie Parker, African-American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )

* August 6 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1955 )

* August 19 – Georges Enescu, Romanian composer ( d. 1955 )

* August 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian General ( d. 1955 )

In August 1955, Grissom was reassigned to the Air Force Institute of Technology located in Dayton, Ohio.

Chaffee married Martha Horn in Oklahoma City on August 24, 1957, whom he met while on a blind date in September 1955, and had two children, Sheryl Lyn ( born 17 November 1958 ) and Stephen ( born 3 July 1961 ).

* August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress ( d. 1970 )

William John Wills, second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition worked under Neumayer at the Flagstaff Observatory until the expedition departed from Melbourne on 20 August 1860.

* Calamity Jane, also known as Martha Jane Cannary ( or Canary ) Burke ( May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903 ) born in Princeton, Missouri.

Burke was the oldest child of Josephine Moore ( born 1 April 1920 in Panama City, Florida ; died 27 August 1990 in Germantown, Pennsylvania ) who had been a nurse, taught kindergarten for five years on the School District of Philadelphia, and been a concert singer, and an unknown father.

Burke claimed that he appeared on American Bandstand, the first episode hosted by Dick Clark, which would be on 5 August 1957.

In August 1958 it was also reported that Burke converted to Islam, and had married, however it only lasted two months before being annulled by 1958.

In 1959 Philadelphia businessman Marvin Leonard " Babe " Chivian ( born 24 August 1925 ; died January 1972 ), " a body-and-fender man ," and real estate speculator, offered Burke a red Lincoln Continental convertible if Burke would agree to a management contract with him.

In August 2008 Burke told Mojo magazine: " I wrote that on the train, ' cos I had no song and I started thinking on old songs that I could do uptempo and I thought, ( sings Gospel song pacier, with horn arrangement ) so I had to keep that in my head ' til I got to the studio.

On August 13, 1962 Burke returned to New York to record four songs, but only two were released, and neither charted.

On August 16, 1963 Burke recorded three songs in New York, including " You're Good for Me ", which was written by Don Covay and Horace Ott, who also arranged it.

In August 2008 Burke recalled that he'd hired musicians from Charlotte, North Carolina, to play at a gig in Long Island and he drafted them in to play the instrumental riff on " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.

On August 28, 1964, Burke recorded " Yes I Do " ( Atlantic 2254 ), and " The Price " ( Atlantic 2259 ), " a catalog of the wages of a bad romance.

On August 7, 2008 Burke performed for the third and last time on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Burke celebrated his 70th birthday in March 2010 and toured Japan for the first time in May 2010, before his " Year of the Dream Love Tour " across Europe in July and August 2010, including dates in Spain, Italy, England, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Switzerland.

Burke was married to Doris P. Williams for two months ; the marriage was annulled by August 1958, though resulted in the birth one child, Valerie Doris Gresham ( born September 16, 1957 ).

Burke's second wife was Delores Clark Burke Perkins ( born 1937 ), with whom he had 7 children, including Eleanor Alma ( born December 27, 1958 ), Melanie ( born March 1960 ), Solomon Vincent, Jr. ( born October 15, 1961 ), Carolyn ( born September 1962 ), John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( JFK ), Gemini ( born September 1, 1964 ), and Lillian ( born August 1966 ).

Burke's fourth wife was Frances Sunday ( born 1951 ), whom he married in about 1970 ; she was married to him ( but separated ) when he died, and had three children with him: King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke ( born August 7, 1972 ), Queen Sunday Victoria Burke ( born February 24, 1974 ), and Queen Elizabeth Burke-Maynard ( born March 12, 1975 ).

** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue

In August 2005 Mason starred as Hecuba at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and on Broadway Steel Magnolias, with Delta Burke, Frances Sternhagen, Rebecca Gayheart, Lily Rabe and Christine Ebersole.

: This memorial has been erected to mark the spot from whence the Burke and Wills Expedition started on 20 August 1860.

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton " Billie " Burke ( August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970 ) was an American actress.