* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

" Clink ", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

* 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 ).

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

In August 1939, after Stalin's attempts to establish an Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance failed, Stalin entered into a pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence in Eastern Europe and allowed the USSR to regain some of its lost territories.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Lev Kamenev, Trotsky's brother-in-law, was added to the editorial board from the Bolsheviks, but the unification attempts failed in August 1910 when Kamenev resigned from the board amid mutual recriminations.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

An attempt to strengthen executive powers in 1926 ( through the August Amendment ) proved too limited and largely failed in helping avoid legislative grid-lock which had ensued as a result of too-great parliamentary power in a state which had numerus diametrically-opposed political parties sitting in its legislature.

Jonathan Sánchez, who had been ridiculed in August when he failed to make good a boast that the Giants would sweep the Padres, led the September charge with a 3 – 1 record and 1. 17 ERA, and took the win in the clincher.

* On August 8, 1975 the Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, failed after a freak typhoon ; over 200, 000 people perished.

A coup attempt by hard-liners in August 1991 failed, marking the effective end of the Soviet Union.

* August 30 – Attempted raising of a 15-tonne section of the RMS Titanic failed as 1, 700 spectators, including survivors of the wreck watched.

* August 22 – A failed assassination attempt is made against French President Charles De Gaulle.

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

They were not arrested and neither did Henry confiscate their lands, but he failed to help them when they sought his advice in August 1171.

Symbolically, the Memorial to the Victims of the Gulag ( a simple stone from Solovki ) was erected beside the Iron Felix and the latter was removed in August 1991, after the failed rebellion of hard-line Communist members of government.

When he failed to appear, the electors meeting at Lahneck Castle declared him deposed on 20 August 1400 on account of " futility, idleness, neglicence and ignobility ".

After a failed first invasion into Bohemia, Otto II marched to Bohemia a second time in August 977.

In the battle of the Lisaine, Bourbaki's men failed to break through German lines commanded by General August von Werder.

Most of the smaller attacks failed to hold ground, although XVIII had a success on 19 August.

In the decades of 1840 and 1850 Honduras participated in several failed attempts to restore Central American unity, such as the Confederation of Central America ( 1842 – 1845 ), the covenant of Guatemala ( 1842 ), the Diet of Sonsonate ( 1846 ), the Diet of Nacaome ( 1847 ) and National Representation in Central America ( 1849 – 1852 ).

A succession of failed attempts at promoting further uprising in Sicily, Abruzzi, Tuscany and Lombardy-Venetia discouraged Mazzini for a long period, which dragged on until 1840.

" The magazine failed, but in July 1840 he founded another publication, the Revue Parisienne.

That original monument was bombed and heavily damaged in 1840 ( reputedly by Irish-Canadian terrorist Benjamin Lett although a subsequent Assize failed to confirm this ).

Although in the end the policy of assimilation failed during the Union ( 1840 – 1867 ) and after, in practice, the Act of Union prevented the granting of responsible government to the French Canadian people ( as a majority in Lower Canada ).

Their efforts led to the Act of Union ( 1840 ), which ultimately failed to assimilate all French Canadians but succeeded in preventing their political and economic interests from prevailing over those of Britain.

The first “ Bowburn Colliery ” was a shaft sunk in 1840 but failed to find workable coal.

Merchants in Calcutta established the Union Bank in 1839, but it failed in 1840 as a consequence of the economic crisis of 1848-49.

The company failed before the building was finished so the township took over the building, finished construction, and began using it for the seat of township government beginning in 1840.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

The 29 December 1874, military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos, in Sagunto ended the failed republic and meant the rise of the young Prince Alfonso.

Hikami no Kawatsugu, a son of Emperor Temmu's grandson Prince Shioyaki and Shōmu's daughter Fuwa, attempted to carry out a coup d ' état in 782, but it failed and Kawatsugu and his mother were sent into exile.

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia, carried on with the remnants of the German army, along with the Hungarian army under the command of Prince Géza, with the aim of burying the emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.

Jogaila failed to support Mamai, lingering in the vicinity of the battlefield, which led to Mamai's army significant defeat at the hands of Prince Dmitri in the Battle of Kulikovo.

At first, she failed to notice the nanny's abuse of the young Princes Edward and Albert, and her youngest son, Prince John, was housed in a private farm on the Sandringham Estate, in the care of Mrs. Bill, perhaps to hide his epilepsy from the public.

In November 1470, Parliament declared that Prince Edward and his descendants were Henry's heirs to the throne ; Clarence would become King only if the Lancastrian line of succession failed.

On 8 January 1746 ( OS ) 19 January 1746 ( NS ), the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie seized control of the town but failed to take the Castle.

The middle-aged estate manager, Rudd, is somewhat embittered at having been one of the soldiers who had failed to rescue the Prince Imperial in 1879.

Colonel Richard Deane's initial attempts to cross the Powick Bridge ( where Prince Rupert of the Rhine had won the Battle of Powick Bridge his first victory in 1642 ) failed against stubborn resistance by the Royalists ( many of whom were battle-hardened Scottish Highlanders ) commanded by Colonel Keith.

In 1959, he organized a failed assassination attempt via mail bomb on Prince Sihanouk, the leader of neighbouring Cambodia, with whom relations had become strained.

During the Hundred Years ' War, Edward the Black Prince failed to take the city in 1355, although his troops destroyed the Lower Town.

Manuel thus had every reason to worry when he received a royal order in 1493 to present himself to the king, but his fears were groundless: John II wanted to name him heir to the throne, after the death of his son, Prince Afonso, and the failed attempts to legitimise Jorge, Duke of Coimbra, his illegitimate son.

Breanna Stewart, at 6 ' 3 " ( 191 cm ), Alexis Prince ( 6 ' 2 "; 188 cm ), and Brittney Sykes ( 5 ' 9 "; 175 cm ) competed in the 2012 contest ; Prince and Sykes failed to complete their dunks, while Stewart landed two in the first round but missed her second two attempts in the final round.

After several failed marriages and Albert Victor's death, Margery came to England and claimed the Prince was the father of her son, Clarence Haddon.

A marriage plan, originally aiming to establish an alliance between Richard and Philip, to marry Arthur's elder sister Eleanor to Prince Louis of France also failed.

Prince Hans-Adam had threatened that he and his family would move to Austria if the referendum had failed.

The only disturbing event was the failed rebellion by his uncle Prince Maha Prommatat.

It is mentioned in Nara period documents as the location to which Prince Ōtsu was exiled in 686 after his failed rebellion, and in Heian period documents in reference to its iron ore deposits.

Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont and Francesco d ' Este, Hereditary Prince of Modena had asked for her hand but negotiations failed.

The revolt was further hampered when it was deserted by its supposed leader Prince Trubetskoy, who had a last minute change of heart, and failed to turn up at the Square.