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.

The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

In August 2007, Jakarta held its first ever election to choose a governor, whereas previously the city's governors were appointed by the local house of representatives.

The city's highest rainfall in 24 hours occurred on 7 August 1953, when about of rain lashed the city, resulting in major flooding.

The city's defense, led by then Lieutenant-Colonel August von Gneisenau, held out until the war was ended by the Treaty of Tilsit.

Both termini began life as fairly modest affairs, but in order to cope with increasing demands both went on to much bigger and better things in later years, a new Potsdamer Bahnhof, destined to be Berlin's busiest station, opening on 30 August 1872 and a new Anhalter Bahnhof, destined to be the city's biggest and finest, following on 15 June 1880.

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.

* August: Caliph al-Ma ' mun returns to Baghdad, securing the city's place as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Following the city's launch of the so-called " CleanAir Cabs " program the previous year, in August 2008 the Boston Police Department's Hackney Carriage Unit mandated that the city's entire taxicab fleet must be converted to hybrid vehicles by 2015. web | url = http :// www. cityofboston. gov / police / hackney / drivers. asp >

Boom Days, held on the first full weekend of August, is a tribute to the city's mining past.

By August 7 they had cut the city's water supply.

The city's media and news needs are served by The Virginian Review newspaper, which has been continuously published since August 10, 1914, and by AM radio station WKEY.

The city's residents were featured on the premiere episode of the ABC reality / game show series My Kind of Town, on Sunday, August 14, 2005.

In August 2011, two of the city's schools ( Iola Roberts Elementary and Pell City High School ) started school after undergoing renovations and / or expansions to their campuses.

On the evening of August 1, 2011, the city commission voted to disband the city's police department due to a corrupt city commission.

For the city's important role in Idaho's potato industry, Governor Butch Otter proclaimed August 11, 2007 " Lewisville Day " statewide.

The receivership would last until August 1990, but the city's finances were monitored by the state for another ten years, afterwards.

Shortly thereafter, on August 28, the city's plat was dedicated.

Nineteen days following the city's centennial, Hurricane Katrina struck the city on August 29, 2005, destroying more than 90 % of all buildings along the Gulf of Mexico.

The city's annual rainfall is about, but totals are less than an inch in July and August.

The city's second high school — Chiawana High School — opened in August, 2009.

Spokane's growth continued unabated until August 4, 1889, when a fire, now known as The Great Fire, began shortly after 6: 00 p. m. and destroyed the city's downtown commercial district.

In August 1996, his forces took part in the decisive raid on Grozny, where he personally led the attack on the city's central railway station.

A fair called Cranger Kirmes is held in the city's Crange district every first week of August.