School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Gus Ehlers, competitor of Mr. Houtz in this farm community, says his business since August 1 is running 50% above a year earlier.

Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.

`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..

Among individual dealers questioned in nearly a score of states, two out of three report their sales since August 1 show sizable gains from a year earlier, with the increases ranging from 5% to 50%.

For example, farm equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed about 5% above a year earlier, Mr. Keeler reports.

Tractor production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., of Toronto in July and August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, says John Staiger, vice president.

August ( ) is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

August ends on the same day of the week as November every year.

* In the neopagan wheel of the year August begins at or near Lughnasadh ( also known as Lammas ) in the northern hemisphere and Imbolc ( also known as Candlemas ) in the southern hemisphere.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.

* The first full weekend in August each year, Twinsburg, Ohio, celebrates Twins Days.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

* The Schlossgartenfest ( Palace Garden Festival ) takes place every year at the beginning of August.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.

The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September, as part of the Palace's Summer Opening.

Charles J. Urstadt, the first Chairman and CEO of the BPCA, noted in an August 19, 2007 op-ed piece in the New York Post that the aggregate figure of funds transferred to the City of New York is above $ 1. 4 billion, with the BPCA continuing to contribute $ 200 million a year.

Dry for nine months of the year, it receives or more of rain, mostly during July and August.

In August 1828, Pinto's first year in office, Chile abandoned its short-lived federalist system for a unitary form of government, with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

In 1999, Anjouan had internal conflicts and on August 1 of that year, the 80-year-old first president Foundi Abdallah Ibrahim resigned, transferring power to a national coordinator, Said Abeid.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

In August 2005, a military coup led by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall ended Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya's 21 years of strong-arm rule.

A similar attack against Dutch troops in Surakarta was led by Lt. Col. Slamet Riyadi on 7 August the same year.

On August 10, 1944, Lt. Col. Dewey parachuted into southern France as the leader of a 10-man team from the United States Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

Col. Griffith was killed in action on 16 August 1944 in the town of Leves, near Chartres.

Abstract: This bibliography on the geographical, water and geological information of Guadalcanal was begun to fill a request for current information needed for the forensics recovery of the bodies of the US Marines of the Lt Col. Frank B. Goettge Reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in August 1942.

On 21 August 1954 the 407th SFW Vice Commander, Col. Einar Axel Malmstrom, died when his T-33 Shooting Star trainer crashed approximately one mile west of the Great Falls Municipal Airport.

Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.

The twice-weekly newspaper was founded by Buffalo Bill Cody and Col. John Peake in August 1899.

After the German 11th Army captured Nikolayev on 16 August the commander of Luftflotte 4, Col Gen Lohr, decorated the successful Hungarian crews at Sutyska.

On August 16, 1777, Gen. John Stark ’ s 1, 500 New Hampshire Militia defeated 800 troops of German mercenaries, local Loyalists, Canadians and Indians under German Lt. Col. Friedrich Baum.

On April to August 1945 after the capturing the American liberation forces in the town on last April, the joint and combined military forces of the Filipino soldiers under the Philippine Commonwealth Army 5th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 55th, 56th and 57th Infantry Division and Philippine Constabulary 5th Infantry Regiment, the local guerrilla fighters under the Col.

The aftermath of the Battle of Atimonan on August 1945, the local and combined military and guerrilla resistance casualties was founded of the fighting and succeeding battles, sieges and invasions included the Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units over 6, 800 killed in action and 17, 000 wounded in action, while the local guerrilla fighters under the Col.

In August 1897 a three member " Colonization Committee " was established, consisting of Col. Richard J. Hinton ( Washington, DC ), Wilfred P. Borland ( Bay City, Michigan ), and Cyrus Field Willard ( Chicago ).

" He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the regiment on August 8, 1862, under the command of Col. Adelbert Ames.

The 20th Maine was organized in the state of Maine on August 20, 1862, with Col. Adelbert Ames as its commander.

On August 26, the combined army of approximately 3, 200 men and 250 pack horse teamsters left Fort Sullivan, garrisoned by 300 troops taken from across the army and left behind under Col. Israel Shreve of the 2nd New Jersey Regiment.

Johannes Reidt, a Hessian soldier from Raboldshausen, Germany, Born, January, 06, 1757, Salzberg Hesse Cassel Germany, mother, Anna Elizabeth Reid Her father, Johannes Reidt and mother, Anna Catherine Engel were married August 5, 1764 in Germany and his father, Johann Jacob Helmerich d. May 28, 1845, in Cabarrus County, N. C., served during the American Revolution in Company C ( Col. Friedrich von Porbeck ) of the Garrison Regiment von Wissenbach.

* 1862: 134th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commissioned, Col. ( August )

He married Chantal Tamplin ( daughter of Lt. Col Richard Tamplin ) in 1983 at St Andrew's church in Irnham, Lincolnshire ; she was his Parliamentary Assistant and they have two sons ( Alexander born May 1987 and Nicholas in August 1988 ).

On Sunday, August 29, just ten miles upriver from Fort Sullivan, the advance guard, three companies of riflemen formerly with the Provisional Rifle Corps of Col. Daniel Morgan, reached the area at mid-morning.

On August 7 of that year, Kamel and his wife defected from Iraq, along with Kamel's brother, Col. Saddam Kamel al-Majid, and the brother's wife, Rana Hussein, another of Saddam Hussein's daughters.

The leader of a similar raid on Surakarta on August 7, 1949 was Lt. Col. Slamet Riyadi.

On August 9, a Spaniard named Lt. Col. Manuel Antonio Chaves of the New Mexico Volunteer Militia took command of a garrison of three companies numbering 7 officers and 203 men at Fort Fauntleroy.

# Col. Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset ( 30 August 1787 – 3 October 1846 ), married Lady Catherine Annesley, daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris on 4 December 1814