( The court decided that Horch was a registered trademark on behalf of August Horch's former partners and August Horch was not entitled to use it any more ).

On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

Near the start of the English Civil War, on 18 August 1643 Parliament passed " An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements.

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.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

The CIA and Argentine intelligence, seeking to unify the anti-Sandinista cause before initiating large-scale aid, persuaded the 15 September Legion, the UDN and several former smaller groups to merge in August 1981 as the Nicaraguan Democratic Force ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, FDN ).

In August 1987, the criminal trial was submitted to the jury with the two remaining defendants: Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno ( former Alternative Tentacles label manager ).

** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.

* Second, the issue of compensation and repatriation of the former inhabitants, exiled since 1973, continues in litigation and as of August 2010 had been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights by a group of former residents.

In August 2012, the band released a single called Don ’ t Roof Rack Me, Bro ( Seamus Unleashed ), dedicated to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's former pet dog Seamus.

In August 1979 Macias ' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d ' état ; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed.

On August 15, 2007, Sam Porpora, a former historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore where Poe is buried, claimed that he had started the tradition in the 1960s.

" In August 2009, with Bainimarama still controlling the government as prime minister and the constitution abrogated, Epeli Nailatikau a former military commander was appointed acting president on the retirement of Iloilo.

# The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ( August 1, 1934 ) prescribed that upon the death of the incumbent president, that office would be merged with the office of the chancellor, and that the competencies of the former should be transferred to the " Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler ", as the law stated.

However, Pitt took a more direct role ; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel.

In August 2007, however ( the beginning of the application process for the class of 2012 ), HMC began accepting ACT results, a year after Wake Forest abandoned its former SAT-only policy.

President Wahid has pursued better relations with Israel, and in August 2000 he met with former Israeli Prime Minister Peres.

Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004 and,, has plans to marry his girlfriend ( and former Alien Hunter co-star ), Leslie Stefanson, with whom he had a child in August 2008.

On August 31, 2007, the Jaguars announced that long time back-up quarterback David Garrard would start for the team, ahead of former first round draft pick, Byron Leftwich who was released in the team's final roster cuts.

On August 13, 2010 Blackstone announced it would buy Dynegy, an energy firm, for nearly $ 5 billion.

( The lawsuit was settled in August 2002 after Dynegy agreed to pay Enron US $ 25 million for backing out of the deal.

The sale of this business came quickly: In August 2005, Dynegy sold this business to Targa Resources, a company owned by private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

In August 2009, LS Power agreed to buy nine electrical generating plants from Dynegy for US $ 1. 025 billion in cash in order to dissolve the joint venture.

On August 13, 2010, the Blackstone Group announced plans to purchase Dynegy for US $ 4. 7 billion.

Dynegy said it hoped to hold a vote on August 24, at which time its creditors would approve the bankruptcy plan.

In August 1973 IBM announced the IBM 3650 and 3660 Store Systems that were, in essence, a mainframe computer used as a store controller that could control 128 IBM 3653 / 3663 point of sale registers.

Woodall's maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, controller of the British steel industry in the last two years of the war, who went on to become managing director of the British Iron and Steel Federation ( BISF ) in August 1945 and then managing director of Lithgows in 1949.

Bradley applied for the 10th District seat in June 1961, when he was still a police lieutenant living at 3397 Welland Avenue ; the post had been vacated by Charles Navarro when he was elected city controller .< ref >" 12 Apply for Navarro City Council seat ," Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1961, page 21 < code >< nowiki > Library card required </ nowiki ></ code > The City Council, which had the power to fill a vacancy, instead appointed Joe E. Hollingsworth .< ref >" New Councilman ," Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1961, page 13 < code >< nowiki > Library card required </ nowiki ></ code >

The controller was replaced and retested ; launch was reset for 1 August.

* On 16 August 1986, a U. S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon piloted by Capt Vince Aamato, USAF, lost power at 15, 000 feet and was guided to a safe landing at NAS Glenview by Jeff McCoy, an air traffic controller at O ' Hare.

In August 2009, Roland released the Roland AX-Synth, a model of keytar that contains its own synthesizer sounds in addition to being a MIDI controller.

Under the directorship of Martin Mumford, Rugby FM launched on 31 August 2002 — former Silk FM controller Trevor Thomas was the first voice on-air, also working as the station's programme manager, before leaving to join Warwickshire neighbour The Bear 102.

In August 2005, shortly after series two's finale, Sky 1's controller announced that the show would not be returning for a new series.

For a time an actor, he was appointed in 1788 controller on the estate of a certain Count Königl at Besdiekau in Bohemia, where he died, almost insane, the result of his weird fancies, on 17 August 1799.

On August 11, 1939, Owens visited his Abwehr controller in Hamburg ; during this visit, his wife and son went to the police to tell them he was a German agent.

# August 1983-August 1986, FB-111A and KC-135 Stratotanker flight chief and line chief, 509th Organizational Maintenance Squadron ; and senior maintenance controller for the deputy commander for maintenance, 509th Bomb Wing, Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire.

The only holders of chief controller were the first three directors, promoted to the rank on their appointment, and Princess Mary, who held it from 1939 and was appointed the ATS's honorary controller-commandant in August 1941.

In August 2010, Razer's newly announced Onza Xbox 360 controller was banned from competitive play in Major League Gaming's games and tournaments.

He served in this capacity until July 12, 1991, and was assigned duty as assistant deputy chief of staff for manpower and reserve affairs ( personnel < nowiki > Management / Personnel </ nowiki > Procurement ), Headquarters Marine Corps on August 5, 1991.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

On 18 August, Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Authority chief executive Tevita Banuve said that importers would be given two weeks to clear their kava stock from the wharf.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

Clyne became chief minister until Eric Gairy was elected in a by-election and took the role in August 1961.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

On August 22, 2008, the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid chief executive in the world.

When Stroessner took office on August 15, 1954, few people imagined that this circumspect, unassuming forty-one-year-old commander in chief would be a master politician capable of outmaneuvering and outlasting them all.

On 1 August 1931 Heydrich began his job as chief of the new ' Ic Service ' ( intelligence service ).

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

General Ahmed Mohammed became Sudan's first army chief in August 1954.

The islands have had their own government headed by a chief minister, the first of whom was James Alexander George Smith McCartney, since August 1976.

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

All the English counties south of the River Tees and River Ribble are included, and the whole work seems to have been mostly completed by 1 August 1086, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William received the results and that all the chief magnates swore the Salisbury Oath, a renewal of their oaths of allegiance.

* August 16 – Vietnam War: In a coup, General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new constitution, drafted partly by the U. S. Embassy.

* August – Conquering Bear, Lakota chief

* August 19 – 21 – In response to the murder of a judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the authorities of Colombia arrest 11, 000 suspected Colombian drug traffickers.

* August 8 – Abd al-Malik succeeds Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain

* August 8 – Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain

After street fighting in Constantinople between his supporters and the men of the chief minister Joseph Bringas, he enters the city and is crowned emperor on 16 August.

* August 12 – King Philip ( Metacomet ), the chief of the Wampanoags that had waged war throughout southern New England in a war that bore his name, is killed by an Indian named Alderman, a soldier led by Captain Benjamin Church.

* August 2 – Kano Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate ( b. 1434 )

In his work as acting chief of the Special Operations Division, Olson was involved in the development of aerosolized delivery systems ; he had been present at Pont-Saint-Esprit in August, 1951 ; and several months before resigning his position he had witnessed a terminal interrogation conducted in Germany under Project ARTICHOKE.