`` 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.

a 8 days ban from August 12, 1959 after the August 7 flood ( 八七水災 ), the last big flood before the 88 Taiwan Flood.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

On August 26, 1959, Ike was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the previous Presidential aircraft, the Columbine.

* Hawaii – August 21, 1959

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

Explorer 6 on a Thor-Able | Thor-Able III launches in August 1959

* 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

He delivered his first Budget in August 1959 and his achievements included major reforms to the banking system ( originated by Fadden ) including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australiaand the planning and preparation for the introduction of decimal currency.

* 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U. S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later ( see Flag Act ).

On August 15, 1959, she married John Blume whom she had met while a student at New York University ; the wedding was held in the summer of her sophomore year of college.

Kurt Walker ( born August 9, 1959 ), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

The first organizational meeting of the American Football League took place on August 14, 1959.

The fossil was published in Nature dated August 15, 1959, but due to a strike of the printers the issue was not released until September.

* Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation

In August 1959, the People's Liberation Army took an Indian prisoner at Longju, which had an ambiguous position in the McMahon Line, and two months later in Aksai Chin, a clash led to the death of nine Indian frontier policemen.

The University was established as a company in 1959, with a Royal Charter being granted on 16 August 1961.

* July 4 – Following the admission of the State of Hawaii as the 50th state in August 1959, the new 50-star Flag of the United States is first officially flown over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* August 12 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer ( d. 1959 )

* August 20 – Edgar Guest, English poet ( d. 1959 )

* August 19 – MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1959 )

NASA sent a scientist on Jacques Piccard's Ben Franklin submarine in the Gulf Stream in July and August 1969, to learn how six people would live in an enclosed space for four weeks.

* Green, Bill, Ben Peskoe, Scott Shuffitt, Will Russell ; I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You, ( Bloomsbury USA – August 21, 2007 ), ISBN 978-1-59691-246-5.

* August 8 – Ben Breedlove, American Internet personality ( d. 2011 )

* August 25 – Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.

* August 5 – The Great Clock of Westminster ( or Big Ben ) suffers internal damage and stops running for over nine months.

* August 28 – Ben Gazzara, American actor ( d. 2012 )

* August 6 – Ben Jonson, English writer ( b. 1572 )

He climbed the final Munro of his round – Ben More – on 30 August 2011 at the age of 10 years and 3 months.

The festival in August has been a traditional occasion for markets and fairs, such as the Bartholomew Fair held in Smithfield, London since the Middle Ages, which served as the scene for Ben Jonson's homonymous comedy.

The program for August 14, 1984 began with a record dedicated to Ben Toney in 1967, who then cut in on the 1984 program to thank the DJ that he had personally hired thirty years earlier.

In August 2008, MacLeod completed a new project close to Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis called ' Echo Wall '.

Thom Crowder, Doug Humphreys and Ben Manley were recalled from the City Council in a special election held on August 24, 2010.

* Ben Jones, politician, actor famous for role as Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard, born in Tarboro on August 30, 1941.

Dublin was also the boyhood home of legendary golfer Ben Hogan, who was born on August 13, 1912, at the hospital in nearby Stephenville.

She then relates to Peter how Uncle Ben proposed to her, and that they would have been married for fifty years " this August ", had Ben not been killed.

Uncle Ben first appeared in Amazing Fantasy # 15 ( August 1962 ) and was killed in the very same issue.

* Hot Anger Soon Cold a play by Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson ; mentioned in Philip Henslowe's diary, August 1598.

* On August 5, 2006, Michal Angelo set a new record by escaping from a regulation straitjacket while being fully submerged under water in a time of 29. 1 seconds, beating the previous 38. 59 second record by Ben Bradshaw.

Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen filled balloon on August 27, 1783, from the Champ de Mars, ( now the site of the Eiffel Tower ) where Ben Franklin was among the crowd of onlookers.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Jr., known as Pitchfork Ben Tillman ( August 11, 1847July 3, 1918 ), was an American politician who served as the 84th Governor of South Carolina, from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator, from 1895 until his death in office.

Ben Tillman's skills as an controversial and rabble rousing orator, became apparent during a speech he made at the ninth annual joint session of the State Grange and the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society held at the courthouse in Bennettsville, South Carolina on August 5, 1885.

The new terminal was slated to open in 2006 ; however, time and cost overruns led former Airport General Manager Ben DeCosta to cancel the design contract in August 2005.

Arthur Augustus Calwell ( 28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973 ) Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1940 to 1972, Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.