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.

* Hero of Socialist Labour, three times ( August 12, 1953, June 20, 1956, March 7, 1962 )

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

* Castillo Ramos, Ruben 1956 Muerto Edesio, El rey de la Sierra Maestra ( Edesio the king of Sierra Maestra Is Dead 1914 – 1956 ), Bohemia XLVIII No. 9 ( 12 August 1956 ) pp. 52 – 54 and 87

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 ).

The third Gumby episode, " Robot Rumpus ", made a successful debut on the Howdy Doody Show in August 1956.

On 9 August 1982, Rau married the political scientist, Christina Delius ( born 1956 ).

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

In August 1956 he was sent to Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

From 1956 to August 1998, at least $ 759 million was paid to the Marshallese Islanders in compensation for their exposure to U. S. nuclear testing.

Died 14 August 1956.

* 1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

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.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

* August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, American admiral ( d. 1956 )

* August 25 – David Shimoni, Russian-born Israeli poet and writer ( d. 1956 )

Paul Leo Molitor ( born August 22, 1956 ), nicknamed " Molly " and " The Ignitor ", is an American former Major League Baseball designated hitter and infielder.

Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.

In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment ( MFJ ) is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court ( consent decree ) settling United States v. AT & T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956.

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

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

Florence and Fleming were initiated August 13, 1870, and initiated 11 other men on June 16, 1871.

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

* August 7 – Thomas Fleming, English judge ( b. 1544 )

Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.

Fleming did not live to see Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang published: he suffered a further heart attack on 11 August 1964 and died in the early morning of the following day — his son Caspar's twelfth birthday — in Canterbury, Kent.

* August 30 – Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming

* August 12-Ian Fleming, James Bond author

* August 6-Alexander Fleming ( died 1955 ), British bacteriologist.

" On 12 August 1964, nine months after the conclusion of the trial, Fleming suffered a further heart attack and died at the age of 56.

Fleming had flown to the US in August 1954 to research the background to Diamonds Are Forever ; his friend Ernest Cuneo introduced him to a rich socialite, William Woodward, Jr., who drove a Studillac — a Studebaker with a powerful Cadillac engine.

The novel was published in America in August by the New American Library, after Fleming changed publishers from Viking Press after The Spy Who Loved Me.

Following the death of Ian Fleming on 12 August 1964, the rights to the Bond novels were held by Glidrose Publications ( now Ian Fleming Publications ).

Sir Thomas Fleming ( April 1544 – 7 August 1613 ) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1611.

Fleming died suddenly on 7 August 1613 at Stoneham Park in Hampshire, having given to his servants and farm-labourers what was known in Hampshire as a " hearing day.

* Lars Ivarsson Fleming Friherre of Nynäs, from Sundholm ( August 2, 1561 – February 27, 1562 )

On the morning of 12 August 1964, Fleming died of a heart attack ; eight months later, The Man with the Golden Gun was published.

In the August 2009 Throne Speech the BC government committed to striking a task force on the topic of species-at-risk, but with no action since then, Fleming introduced his own Species at Risk Protection Act ( Bill M-207 ) in May 2010, based on similar legislation in Ontario.

The original creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, died in the early morning of 12 August 1964, eight months before the posthumous publication of The Man with the Golden Gun.