Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

At the August Bristol race, Earnhardt found himself in contention to win his first short track race since Martinsville in 1995.

After going through a summer filled with mostly ties and losses, a four game winning streak at the end of August helped get them back in the playoff race.

* Jersey City 1964 race riot, August 2 – 4, Jersey City, New Jersey

* Paterson 1964 race riot, August 11 – 13, Paterson, New Jersey

* Elizabeth 1964 race riot, August 11 – 13, Elizabeth, New Jersey

* Chicago 1964 race riot, Dixmoor riot, August 16 – 17, Chicago, Illinois

On 5 August 2008, Mofaz officially entered the race to be leader of Kadima.

Tulsa passed an ordinance on August 16, 1916, forbidding blacks or whites from residing on any block where three-fourths or more of the residents were of the other race.

* August 28 – 30 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.

* August 16 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver ( d. 2003 )

* August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver ( b. 1938 )

* August – Camden, New Jersey erupts in race riots following the beating death of a Puerto Rican motorist by city police.

* July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.

* August 27 – The University of Oxford win the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.

* August 22 – The yacht America wins the first America's Cup race.

The Donegal Mountain Bike Club is the newest Mountain Bike club in Donegal, and held its first race on 31 August 2011.

* A Midsummer Night's Run: A 5K race in early August.

In August 2011, it was revealed that V8 Supercars Australia was in the process of negotiating to hold a race at Clark International Speedway in the Philippines from 2013.

William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice ; ;

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

Seven hundred miles south of York Factory, at `` the Forks '' of the Red and the Assiniboine, twenty-three men located a settlement in August 1812.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

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.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939.

* 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.

In August 1926 Ivo Bligh ( now Lord Darnley ) displayed the Ashes Urn at the Morning Post Decorative Art Exhibition held in the Central Hall, Westminster.

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

Greeks stop harvesting the plant ( which usually grows wild ) when it starts to bloom at the end of August.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.