A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on May 8, 1962 at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre and the Majestic Theatre, where the show closed on August 29, 1964, after 964 performances and 8 previews.

By August 1964, the mercenaries, with the assistance of other ANC troops, were making headway against the Simba rebellion.

* Ecclesiam Suam, an encyclical of Pope Paul VI on the Catholic Church given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6, 1964, the second year of his Pontificate

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

* On 22 August 1964, Guadeloupe was ravaged by Hurricane Cleo, which killed 14 people.

* On 22 August 1964, Guadeloupe was ravaged by Hurricane Cleo, which killed 14 people.

Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

The Inter-Governmental Organization ( IGO ) began on August 20, 1964, with 11 participating countries.

In 1963 the BBC paid £ 65 for the radio play The Ruffian on the Stair broadcast on 31 August 1964.

Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague Kenneth Williams in August 1964.

The club appeared in the first edition of the BBC's Match of the Day, which screened highlights of its match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964.

The first congregation, the New London Synagogue was established on 29 August 1964.

* Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2 – 4, Jersey City, New Jersey

* Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11 – 13, Paterson, New Jersey

* Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11 – 13, Elizabeth, New Jersey

* Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor riot, August 16 – 17, Chicago, Illinois

He and Claudette divorced in November 1964 over her infidelities, though they remarried in August 1965.

As part of their general work, in August 1964 the Manned Spacecraft Center ( MSC ) presented studies on an expendable lab known as Apollo " X ", short for Apollo Extension System.

# served on active duty for a period of more than 180 days, any part of which occurred between August 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975, and was discharged or released with other than a dishonorable discharge.

# was discharged or released from active duty for a service connected disability if any part of such active duty was performed between August 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975.

The constitution promulgated on August 25, 1973, abrogated the original 1964 constitution.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

The dual-carriageway £ 964, 000 (£ as of ), five-mile section of the A1 from Checker House ( Ranby ) to Blyth opened in August 1966.

" But the simple dance that we now know as the Twist seems to have come from Chubby Checker in his preparation to debut the song to a national audience on August 6, 1960, on The Dick Clark Show, a Saturday night program that, unlike disc jockey Clark's daytime American Bandstand, was a stage show with a sitting audience.

According to the New York Times ( Saturday, August 17, 1968, page 37 ): " Taxi Partitions – The Checker Motors Corporation, Kalamazoo, Mich., received a patent this week for its Safe-Guard Cab, which has a robbery preventing partition between the front and back seats.

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

The album was released on August 31, 2012 thru Napalm Records in Europe and September 11, 2012 in the United States and Canada.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

As of August 31, 2011, Rush switched their American distribution from Atlantic Records over to the Warner Brothers majority-owned metal label, Roadrunner Records.

Virgin Records was scheduled to release a box-set entitled Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 on 6 August, celebrating 40 years since the release of the band's debut album in 1972.

* Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era, 1976-1995 Rhino Records ( 30 August 2005 )

* August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.

Warner Bros. Records had serious doubts about releasing an album of this eclecticism to the mainstream, but when it did in August 1986, Graceland was praised by critics and the public and became Simon's most successful solo album.

The band recorded five songs ; one of the tracks from the session, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", running more than nine minutes, was released as the group's debut single in August 1979 on Small Wonder Records as Bauhaus ( the 1919 abandoned ).

Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth released on August 31, 1999, and is the band's final studio album released by Capitol Records.

Cake later formed their own label, Upbeat Records, which allowed them to release the compilation album B-Sides and Rarities on August 14, 2007.

On August 2, 2002, the original motion picture soundtrack was released by the Hollywood Records label and the film score was composed by musician James Newton Howard.

Within a year of that first gig, the band was signed to Metal Blade Records, apparently after the label had heard their demo that was sent in by the manager of the record store at which Chris Barnes was working, and their full-length debut album, Eaten Back to Life, was released in August 1990.

On 14 August 1975 Hampstead entered the UK Weather Records with the Highest 155-min total rainfall at 169 mm.

The album Blue on Blue was released by Nettwerk Records under Nash's own imprint, One Son Records and the album's official release date was August 15, 2006, she also released a Christmas EP Wishing For This on 14 November 2006.

In August 1995 ForeFront Records released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included covers of 14 Norman's classic songs by ForeFront artists, including dc Talk ; Audio Adrenaline, Grammatrain ; and Rebecca St. James, whose father, David Smallbone, booked and promoted Norman's first concerts and distributed Norman's early records in Australia, including his eponymous 1977 album, ( which is also known as Starstorm ).

On February 20, 1971, they auditioned to be the back-up band to singer / songwriter Phillip Goodhand-Tait and released an album with him in August 1971 titled " I Think I'll Write a Song " on DJM Records.

In August 1972 Camel signed with MCA Records and their eponymous debut album was released six months later.

They recorded the band's first single, " Cough / Cool ", which they released through their own label Blank Records in August 1977.

Also in 2001 Caroline Records announced that they would release recordings from the Misfits ' August 1980 album sessions as 12 Hits from Hell.

* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..

The current watermelon seed-spitting distance record, as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, of 78 feet 6 inches, was set at the festival on August 12, 1995, by Jason Schaynot, then of Georgetown, Texas.