The museum is named after August Kestner and exhibits 6, 000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, ancient Egypt, applied art and a valuable collection of historic coins.

On August 21, 2012 the Jaguars announced they had finalized a deal to play one regular season home game each year between 2013 and 2016 at London's historic Wembley Stadium as part of the NFL International Series.

On 30 August 2008, Gaddafi and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed a historic cooperation treaty in Benghazi.

The first test launch took place on 16 August 1968, the first successful at-sea launch was from a surface ship, the historic ( from July 1 to December 16, 1969 ), earning the ship the Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the first test launch from a submarine took place on the on 3 August 1970.

Lucy attended the Rochester women ’ s rights convention held in August 1848, two weeks after the historic Seneca Falls Convention, and signed the Rochester convention ’ s Declaration of Sentiments.

Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university received its Royal Charter in August 1961.

Ravenna is home to CSX Transportation and the historic Fitchburg & Cottage Furnaces and conducted the Ravenna Railroad Festival in August 2008.

The City of Ravenna hosted the Ravenna Railroad Festival in August 2008, to showcase the history of the railroad, and included tours of the historic Fitchburg & Cottage Furnaces.

The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.

Ocean Springs was severely damaged on August 29, 2005, by Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed many buildings along the shoreline, including the Ocean Springs Yacht Club, and the historic wooden Fort Maurepas, and gutted or flooded other buildings.

Greenvale is the site of the historic Roslyn East Gate Toll House, a toll house for the former North Hempstead Turnpike that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since August 16, 1977.

The first public schoolhouse in Oklahoma Territory, completed in August 1889, is in Edmond and still stands as a historic monument on 2nd Street between Boulevard and Broadway.

It is a popular place in the summer, for it has a nationally-ranked juried art show ( third weekend in August ), jazz and chamber music concerts, lectures, book reviews, and an annual tour of historic homes and cottages ( 1st Saturday in August ).

In August 2006, an HEB Plus ( the regional supermarket chain of south Texas ) was opened just east of the historic downtown and Fort Ringgold.

On August 27, 1999, representatives of the far-flung Wyandot bands of Quebec, Kansas, Oklahoma and Michigan gathered at their historic homeland in Midland, Ontario.

On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill that mandated the agency " to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.

The historic low was above msl on August 14, 1951.

Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are considered the founders of country music and their songs were first captured at an historic recording session in Bristol, Tennessee on August 1, 1927, where Ralph Peer was the talent scout and sound recordist for Victor Records.

In Port Republic, Maryland the annual Calvert County Jousting Tournament is held every August on the grounds of historic Christ Episcopal Church.

Joe Kittinger's historic freefall from a balloon at 103, 000 feet ( 31, 395 meters ) in August 1960 also helped demonstrate the feasibility of such extreme parachuting.

On his return Foxe was elected Provost of King's College, and in August 1529 was the means of conveying to the king Thomas Cranmer's historic advice that he should apply to the universities of Europe rather than to the pope.

In August there are two major Music Festivals, the Crestone Music Festival and Spanish Trails Music Festival and Mexican Rodeo.

The ranch is still celebrated through the XIT Museum in Dalhart and the annual XIT Rodeo and Reunion held the first long weekend in August.

Home of the " Annual Old Settler's Picnic and Rodeo ", since statehood has been held on the first weekend of August with few interruptions.

The city sponsors the annual Chief Joseph Days Rodeo in July, Bronze, Blues and Brews in August since 2001, and the Alpenfest in September, a Swiss-Bavarian festival staged in the traditional Oktoberfest style at nearby Wallowa Lake.

During the second weekend in August, Fossil hosts the Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo ; on the first weekend of July the Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival is held on the courthouse lawn.

* The Ed Brown Championship Rodeo attracts an estimated 22, 000 people to the town on the first Friday and Saturday of August each year.

The flag waves at the start of the Cody Nite Rodeo, August 6, 2006

The Cody Nite Rodeo is an amateur rodeo every night from June 1 through August 31.

* The Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo-Held around the first of August for over 50 years, the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo provides top qualify family entertainment at an affordable price.

Held annually on the first full Thursday through Sunday weekend of August, the event includes the world's largest free barbecue, junior rodeo as well as Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association events, three nights of live music, and a variety of other offering to celebrate the occasion.

When he was 12, he became a rodeo champion at the California Junior Rodeo Association and was named " All-Around Cowboy " in August 1979.

" After a pair of failed pilots for NBC — Rodeo Drive in October 1980 ( later picked as a series for Lifetime ) and Duel in the Daytime in August 1981, both produced by Jay Wolpert — Tomarken got his first network job as host of Hit Man for NBC ; it lasted just thirteen weeks, from January 3 to April 1 of 1983.

In remembrance of the massive ranch, the City of Dalhart hosts the XIT Museum and the annual XIT Rodeo and Reunion held the first Thursday through Sunday of August.

On August 10, 2009, Brooks & Dunn announced that they would be splitting up after a tour titled The Last Rodeo.

* OS X: Released in August 2011 by Cowboy Rodeo as Pinball Dreams HD.

On August 3, 2011, the Rodeo Drive Committee, the street's non-profit association of merchants, landlords and hotelier voted almost unanimously to support construction of a nearby subway station contrary to previous media reports that the merchants were against the project.

* August: United Way ’ s Day of Caring Fishing Rodeo.

Warkworth hosts many significant special events which attract many thousands of tourists, including the annual Maple Syrup Festival in March, Perfect Pie Contest, Lilac Festival, the summer Rodeo, the Rural Ramble, the Fall Fair, one of Eastern Ontario's largest truck shows, the Warkworth Truck Show, the Donnybrook, studio, house and garden tours, and the famous Long Lunch in August.

Frost has been inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado in August 1990 and the PBR Ring of Honor in 1999, as well as the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, and the Oklahoma Sports Museum.

Quail Dobbs ( born 27 August 1941 in Albany, Texas ) is a famous rodeo clown and performer, inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2002.

On 18 August 1944 Horbaczewski led his squadron of 12 aircraft over France on a ' Rodeo ' mission, despite being ill with flu.