He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop ( August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984 ) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.

In this vein the self-described " Hyperborean-Roman Company " ( Hyperboreisch-römische Gesellschaft ) were a group of northern European scholars who studied classical ruins in Rome, founded in 1824 by Theodor Panofka, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, August Kestner and Eduard Gerhard.

On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by Joseph Druce, a self-described white supremacist and inmate serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made a sexual pass after picking Druce up hitchhiking.

At a grand jury hearing in Los Angeles in August 1940 — the transcript of which was shortly released to the press — John R. Leech, the self-described former " chief functionary " of the Communist Party in Los Angeles, named Stander as a CP member, along with more than 15 other Hollywood notables, including Franchot Tone, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clifford Odets and Budd Schulberg.

Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus ( also Sergiei, Sergyei, Sergius, Serge ; ; August 25, 1862 in Moscow-January 14, 1929, Krutets village, Vladimir Oblast, USSR ) was a Russian religious writer and self-described mystic.

Mohamed Hamri ( August 27, 1932August 29, 2000 ), commonly known as Hamri, was a self-described Painter of Morocco.

* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

Unveiled on 16 August 1963, a wooden and metal organ in Manning Chapel, Acadia University, is dedicated to Acadia University's war dead of the First World War.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

The First World War began in August 1914 and Montgomery moved to France with his regiment that month.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

The competition begins in August with the lowest-ranked clubs ; they contest the Extra Preliminary Round, followed by the Preliminary Round and First Qualifying Round.

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

In August, Washington attended the First Virginia Convention, where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress.

First appearance: August 8, 1978

First ( 1559 ) he married Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin ( 29 August 1540 – 8 March 1578 ).

; June 1992: First informal draft of the HTML DTD, with seven subsequent revisions ( July 15, August 6, August 18, November 17, November 19, November 20, November 22 )

First person interview conducted with Roy Clark on August 15, 2011.

On 4 August 1789, the Assembly abolished feudalism, in what became known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate ( nobility ) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate ( clergy ).

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

* The Vindication of Humanae Vitae, by Mary Eberstadt First Things, August / September 2008.

When, on 2 August 1100, William II was killed by an arrow in a hunting accident in the New Forest, where Henry was also hunting, Duke Robert had not yet returned from the First Crusade.

Attempts at reaching some sort of compromise between the conflicting parties meant the Bill still had not received the Royal Assent by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

* http :// www. alphagalileo. org / ViewItem. aspx? ItemId = 83171 & CultureCode = en, First Woman President of the International Mathematical Union, August 2010, AlphaGalileo

* In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers

Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts ; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO ( August 2001 ).

* 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.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

In August 2010, a European astronomical team working at the La Silla Observatory in Chile announced that they had confirmed the presence of at least five planets orbiting the star HD 10180 in Hydrus.

On August 12, 2010, during Quakecon 2010, Id Software announced Rage US ship date of September 13, 2011, and a European ship date of September 15, 2011.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

After the declaration on the restoration of its full independence on August 21, 1991, Latvia became a member of the United Nations on September 17, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of UN organizations and other international agreements, including Council of Europe, CERCO, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, UNICEF, International Criminal Court, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The European Parliament has proclaimed 23 August, the anniversary of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, as a European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, to be commemorated with dignity and impartiality.

On August 15, 1519, Pedrarias, having abandoned Santa María la Antigua del Darién, moved the capital of Castilla del Oro with all its organizational institutions to the Pacific Ocean's coast and founded Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá ( present day Panama City ), the first European settlement on the shores of the Pacific.

This is the transcript of Majerus ' lecture given at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting on 23 August 2007.

The first European to enter the bay is believed to have been the Spanish explorer Juan de Ayala, who passed through the Golden Gate on August 5, 1775 in his ship the San Carlos, and moored in a bay of Angel Island now known as Ayala Cove.

In August 2012, The Pogues embarked on a 30th anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at the Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees, UK to 11 & 12 September 2012 at L ' Olympia, Paris, two shows to be filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

In August 1991 an independent democratic Estonian state was re-established and a period of quick development to a modern European capital ensued.

Antti Turunen, the head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry's Eastern European and Central Asian department, led a European Union fact-finding mission to Tashkent, Uzbekistan on August 29, 2006.

It has been suggested that the war ended at the armistice of 14 August 1945 ( V-J Day ), rather than the formal surrender of Japan ( 2 September 1945 ); in some European histories, it ended on V-E Day ( 8 May 1945 ).

* On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project.

* July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.

* August 18 – Explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu.

* August 3 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician ( CDU ) and former European Commissioner for Science & Research

* August 10 – Britain applies for membership in the European Economic Community.