The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

On 11 August 2009, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck near the Andaman Islands, causing a tsunami warning to go into effect.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

Image: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska ( natural ). jpg | The thick pall of smoke the fires were creating ( August 2, 2009 ).

Image: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska. jpg | Visible, short wave and near-infra-red image showing burned areas ( brick red ) and unburned vegetation ( bright green ) ( August 2, 2009 ).

The re-submitted legislation passed the Senate in August 2009.

There were union conferences about this matter held in August 2009 which reached the conclusion to keep the treaty until pending investigation.

Cup-type anemometer with vertical axis, a sensor on a remote meteorological station deployed on Skagit Bay, Washington ( state ) | Washington July – August, 2009.

" During an interview for Collider on August 25, 2009, Judge told them, " I like to keep the door open on Beavis and Butt-Head, because it's my favorite thing that I've ever done.

* Newman, Simon P. " Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia ," Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol.

James Watterson was elected as a council member in 1997, holding that position for 12 years before retiring on August 31, 2009 to pursue artistic " projects and goals ".

The first identification cards were issued to two Bahá ' ís under the new decree on August 8, 2009.

In August 2009 Anheuser-Busch partnered with popular Chinese video-sharing site, Tudou. com for a user-generated online video contest.

The world record for concrete pumping was set on 7 August 2009 during the construction of the Parbati Hydroelectric Project, near the village of Suind, Himachal Pradesh, India, when the concrete mix was pumped through a vertical height of.

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Emil Theodor Kocher ( 25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917 ) was a Swiss physician, medical researcher, and Nobel laureate for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.

On 10 August 1792 the Paris Commune stormed the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guard s

On the night of 10 August 1792, insurgents and popular militias, supported by the revolutionary Paris Commune, assailed the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guards who were assigned for the protection of the king.

The species takes its name from its discoverer, the Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

This posed a dilemma for the libertines, so on 21 August the council decided to write to other Swiss cities for their opinions, thus mitigating their own responsibility for the final decision.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

Richard Robert Ernst ( born August 14, 1933 ) is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate .< ref >

* August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist ( b. 1841 )

* August 14 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer ( died 1998 )

* August 24 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect ( d. 2012 )

* August 26 – The Canton of Basel is partitioned by the Swiss Tagsatzung, to create the two half-cantons of Basel-City and Basel-Country.

* August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1811 )

* August 2 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 1974 )

* August 19 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer

* August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer ( d. 1777 )

* August 14 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* August 29 – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor

* August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman ( b. 1540 )

* August 25 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1917 )

* August 10 – Henri Nestlé, German-born Swiss chocolate magnate ( d. 1890 )

* August 14 – Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1922 )

* August 9 – Johann Büttikofer, Swiss zoologist ( d. 1929 )

* August 23 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot ( b. c. 1465 )