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 ).

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.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

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

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

* Earliest day on which National Heroes ' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

* Earliest day on which Melon Day can fall, while August 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Sunday in August.

* Earliest day on which Day of Hearts can fall, while August 21 is the latest ; celebrated on the third Monday in August.

* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

* Earliest date on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August.

* Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before.

This time, however, he did not return to France, dying while on his way back, probably at Savona in Italy, on 21 August 1271.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

In August 2012 a man in Montana was killed by a car while perpetrating a Bigfoot hoax using a ghillie suit.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

Most of the census in 2007 was taken in August, while the Somali Region and the Afar Region were not covered.

The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

However December 16 is only the date on which the state celebrates the event, while the actual day on which the independence of Bahrain was declared was August 15, 1971 ( see Bahrain Independence Day )

** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.