The Rocna obtained the highest averaged holding power in SAIL magazine's comparison testing in 2006 and the highest " ultimate holding capacity " in Practical Boat Owner's testing in August 2011.

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

After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

In August 2006, cases of bluetongue were found in the Netherlands, then Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg.

* Powell, Michael, " Boston's Big Dig Awash in Troubles ", Washington Post, 2004-11-19, Retrieved on August 9, 2006.

* ScienceDaily: Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity ( University of Arizona ) August 17, 2006

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

* BBC News report on handover, 8 August 2006

On 11 August 2006, Chad and Sudan resumed relations at the behest of Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Taiwan broke off relations with Chad on August 5, 2006 ( hours before a scheduled official visit by Premier Su Tseng-chang ) and Chad formally recognized the PRC on August 6.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Unemployment finally dipped to 7. 8 % in 2006, and continued to fall in 2007, averaging 6. 8 % monthly ( up to August ).

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After it was shown that at least one such body was larger than Pluto, on August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) reclassified Pluto, grouping it with two similarly sized " dwarf planets " rather than with the eight " classical planets ".

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

That was the origin of a fight between the two parts from 20 – 22 August 2006 in the streets of the capital, Kinshasa.

* Cole, Alan, " Simplicity for the Sophisticated: ReReading the Daode Jing for the Polemics of Ease and Innocence ," in History of Religions, August 2006, pp. 1 – 49

Bomber operations ceased from Diego Garcia on 15 August 2006.

The 2006 " Days of Syn " was on 26 – 28 August ( UK August Bank Holiday weekend ) and featured a talk on Dr. Syn at the Anglican church at 6: 30 p. m. On Sunday at 3 p. m. there was a church service where Dr. Syn and the cast appeared in period costume.

However, in an August 2000 interview with Spin, Alexakis stated that he is now a Christian.

On 31 August, in the great Charles Alcock-edited magazine Cricket: A Weekly Record of The Game, there appeared a mock obituary:

He had not resided there long when an edict appeared ( August 8, 1564 ) banishing all foreign dissidents.

Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.

On 9 August 1810, the British appeared at Banda Neira.

* Omega and why maths has no TOEs article based on one written by Gregory Chaitin which appeared in the August 2004 edition of Mathematics Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.

" Clink ", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

The turning point in Calvin's fortunes occurred when Michael Servetus, a fugitive from ecclesiastical authorities, appeared in Geneva on 13 August 1553.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

Kazaa Lite Resurrection ( KLR ) appeared almost immediately after Kazaa Lite development was stopped in August 2003.

Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in August 2011 former state-affiliated dailies have closed and new titles have appeared, many short-lived.

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.

LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

When it appeared that, in spite of heavy pressure, non-communist parties might receive in excess of 40 percent of the vote in the August 1947 Hungarian elections, an all-out repression was instituted to suppress independent political forces.

In August 2006 Doohan appeared in Darwin Magistrates Court to face charges over a weekend fracas at a strip club.

Al Jaffee has appeared in the most issues ( 461 as of August 2011 ).

This nova appeared on 29 August 1975, in the constellation Cygnus about five degrees north of Deneb and reached magnitude 2. 0 ( nearly as bright as Deneb ).

On 18 August 2012, Crowe appeared along with Doyle at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland as part of the city's Menningarnótt program.

The singer also appeared on Larry King Live on CNN on August 23, 2006.

Staind appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 10, 2005, to promote their new album Chapter V. They performed acoustic renditions of the single " Right Here " and Beetlejuice's song " This is Beetle ".

When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, finally appeared in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines.

Dolenz also appeared in an event called " myRecordFantasy with Micky Dolenz " August 2 – 4, 2010 giving fans the opportunity to audition and perform on this album.