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.

Haryana has adopted a new sports policy on 21 August 2009, when Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, approved the Sports Policy, 2009.

* Maine Dil Tujhko Diya ( 23 August 2002 ) ( Released ) ... Mr. Varma ( Ayesha's Father )

The author, Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers this differently: " In August 2005, Mr Toshio Suzuki of Studio Ghibli came with Mr Hayao Miyazaki to talk with me and my son ( who controls the trust which owns the Earthsea copyrights ).

In August 2005, the Fox network confirmed that she would be returning to the show, as the investigation had found " insufficient evidence that the communications between Mr. Clark and Ms. Abdul in any way aided his performance.

After spending months perfecting the recipe, Mr. Marrero created and sold the first piña colada on August 15, 1954, while working as the head bartender at the Caribe Hilton International Hotel, the most popular hotel in Puerto Rico among the 1950s.

It commenced work on 27 August 1992 with both President Rene and Mr. Mancham calling for national reconciliation and consensus on a new democratic Constitution.

* 22 August 1865, La Feuille d ' Aoste reported “ It is rumored that English technicians to whom Mr. Manzetti illustrated his method for transmitting spoken words on the telegraph wire intend to apply said invention in England on several private telegraph lines ".

* August 30 – George Pelawa, American ice hockey star Minnesota Mr. Hockey ( b. 1968 )

On the 31 August 1974, Mr David Scott Munro, of Ross-shire Caberfeidh Water Ski Club, became the first person in the world to water ski ( mono ski ) the length of Loch Ness, Scotland.

In August 2005, Glen Strong, an oyster fisherman with the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma, was awarded $ 14 million from DuPont, but the ruling was overturned June 5, 2008, by a Mississippi jury who found DuPont's plant had no connection to Mr. Strong's disease.

On August 30, 2012, Mr. Nimoy narrated a satirical segment about Mitt Romney's life on Comedy Central's " The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Reviewing the NSA's archives, Mr. Hanyok concluded that the NSA had initially misinterpreted North Vietnamese intercepts, believing there was an attack on August 4.

" Mr B ", John Murphy, died in a car accident in Belfast in August 1998.

Regarding whether Mr. Bush knew in advance about the losses, the SEC investigators found: " The evidence establishes that George W. Bush was not aware of the majority of the items that comprised the loss Harken announced on August 20.

Mr. Eldredge held title for only two months before selling it to John D. Patterson on August 14, 1866 for $ 5, 400.

In August, 1872, Mr. Pattison was given title to this property by president Ulysses S. Grant.

Mr. Currier was settled in 1771, and dismissed August 29, 1774, according to the town records, for intemperance.

On 14 August 1862, Mr. John C. Holley received authority to recruit a regiment in Sullivan County, which was organized at Monticello, with David P. DeWitt as Colonel, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years October 8, 1862.

Mr. Crandall was in the same business in Montrose, Pennsylvania, where his large factory burned August 27, 1886, involving a loss of $ 46, 000.

Busy with films, tours and vaudeville, ( including an appearance at the London Pavilion in 1921 as Mr. St. Louis in Fun of the Fayre and the next year in Phi-Phi ), he did not return to Broadway until 1923, with the musical Jack and Jill ( Globe Theatre ) which had 92 performances between March 22, 1923, and June 9, 1923, and Lynn Starling's comic play Meet the Wife which opened on November 26, 1923, and ran into the summer of 1924, closing in August.

" In its 1957 season, he appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution ( July 1957 ), as Hector in Jane Anouilh's Thieves Carnival ( July 1957 ), and the role which he once described as the " catalyst of his career "-as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge ( from July 30 to August 3, 1957 and directed by Ulu Grosbard who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre ).

* Braid, J., " Physiological Explanation of Some Mesmeric Phenomena ", The Medical Times, Vol. 10, No. 258, ( 31 August 1844 ), pp. 450 – 451 ; reprinted as " Remarks on Mr. Simpson ’ s Letter on Hypnotism, published in the Phrenological Journal for July 1844 ", The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Vol. 17, No. 81, ( October 1844 ), pp. 359 – 365.

Fulton Mackay OBE ( 12 August 1922 – 6 June 1987 ) was a Scottish actor and playwright, known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.

McKimson would also pair the Devil with Daffy Duck in Ducking the Devil ( August 17, 1957 ) before pitting him once again against Bugs in Bill of Hare ( June 9, 1962 ) and Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare ( March 28, 1964 ).