* Satellite photo of the Alps, taken on 31 August 2005 by MODIS aboard Terra

In August 2005, India revealed its new anti-hijacking policy.

This is not an annual event ; the most recent performances have been in August 2000 and 2005 but more are planned.

* August 25, 2005: Tsukuba Express, Tokyo's fastest private railway, opens in Akihabara.

The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois presented a staged concert on August 26 and 27, 2005, with Audra McDonald ( Fay ), Michael Cerveris ( Hapgood ) and Patti LuPone ( Cora ).

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

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Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Octavian ( Julius Caesar's 18-year old adopted son and heir ), and Cleopatra of Egypt ( Joseph M. Horodyski, Military Heritage, August 2005, Volume 7, No. 1, pp 58 to 63, and p. 78 ), ISSN 1524-8666.

On August 8 / 9, 2005, China Central Television ( CCTV ) aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China.

Image: HKWanchaiwaterfront. jpg | A view of Wanchai waterfront with Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in the foreground and Central Plaza behind it, August 2005

In August 2005, Elwes filed a lawsuit against Evolution Entertainment, his management firm and producer of Saw.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Another version of the song was recorded by Chris Kline in August 2005.

Nine of the 14 episodes from the first ( Rediffusion ) series were released on DVD in the UK and the US in August 2005.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

* The first EVA to perform an in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle was by American Steve Robinson on August 3, 2005, during " Return to Flight " mission STS-114.

On 4 August 2005, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry called for more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the Military personnel, to be recruited.

On 26 August 2005, the government announced plans to study ways to reduce the size of the military.

* " Rank and Phile " – Arts Hub feature, August 12, 2005

The plan began to be implemented on 15 August 2005, and was completed on 12 September 2005.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

In August 2011 a joint raid between the American DEA and local British Virgin Islands police arrested a number of residents who are accused of being involved in major drugs transshipments.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

In August 2005, the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police forcibly removed all settlers from the Gaza Strip.

No. 187 / 1972 – Firearms ( Temporary Custody ) Order, 1972 ) was issued for all privately-held pistols and all rifles over. 22 calibre to be surrendered to local Garda ( police ) stations by 5 August 1972, for a period of one month.

In August 1944 Hitler authorised him to restructure the organisation and administration of the Waffen-SS, the army, and the police services.

In August 2009, a British Asian man from Birmingham, England received a suspended sentence after making derogatory comments to a police officer, who was of Irish origin.

A riot took place in August 2000, when about 2, 500 students clashed with police at a block party at the Forest Hills townhouse complex on Village Lane.

On August 1 members of the Kenyan Air Force launched an attempted coup, which was quickly suppressed by Loyalist forces led by the Army, the General Service Unit ( GSU ) — paramilitary wing of the police — and later the regular police, but not without civilian casualties.

Taliban Mutaween # Other groups | religious police beating a woman in Kabul, which was filmed by RAWA on August 26, 2001.

Two months later, Gaddafi asserted that he wanted his agents to assassinate dissident refugees, even if they were just on pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca — in August 1984, a Libyan plot in Mecca was thwarted by Saudi Arabian police.

In the meantime, after a period of secret police repression and internal confusion that followed the first party Congress in 1898, Iskra succeeded in convening the party's 2nd congress in London in August 1903.

In August 1938, Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police forces.

At the same time, with the underground network of Montoneros militants largely uprooted in the capital of Tucumán province, several hundred ERP militants took the streets in the Argentine city of Córdoba in the last week of August 1975, in an effort to divert attention from the military operations being waged in the jungles and mountains of Tucumán and five policemen were killed as a result, after the police headquarters was attacked with gunfire and the police radio communications center bombed.

A new police organization law, passed by the National Assembly and signed into law in August 1996, further codified both civilian control of the police and the professionalization of that law enforcement agency.

In the United States, August Vollmer introduced other reforms, including education requirements for police officers.

The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs ' opening hours to 12 noon – 2: 30 pm and 6: 30 pm – 9: 30 pm Opening for the full licensed hours was compulsory, and closing time was equally firmly enforced by the police ; a landlord might lose his licence for infractions.

On 18 August 1977, Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt.

On August 1, Sid Hatfield, a prominent Union organizer and Matewan chief of police, was assassinated by mining company agents.

* August 28 – 30 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.