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How to use August in a sentence

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The primary source of regulations was the slave code decreed by Spanish governor Don Miguel de la Torre on 12 August 1826.
The clear green water looks cold enough in a hot August noon to make one's teeth chatter, so that it requires some resolution to venture upon a bath.
Orestes fled to the city of Pavia on August 23, 476, where the city's bishop gave him sanctuary.
Illustrious was decommissioned on 28 August 2014, after Ocean had returned to active duty.
In many countries the academic year starts in September in finishes in August of the next calendar year.
The takeover was approved by the European Commission in August 2010, conditional on Deutsche Bahn disposing of some Arriva services in Germany.
In August 2004 Arriva purchased Wulff, which operated buses in Jutland and Copenhagen.
On 23 May 2016 it was announced that the night service would launch on 19 August 2016 for the Central and Victoria lines.
The tram was out of service during the early part of 2014 due to an electrical problem but returned in time for the August bank holiday.
The targeted completion date of August 1998 was missed by ten months, leading to compensation being paid by Altram.
The station was first allocated to the USAAF Eighth Air Force in August 1942 as a heavy bomber airfield.
In addition, between March 1946 and August 1947, Stansted was used for housing German prisoners of war.
In August 2013, the old carriageway of the A45 road was closed, and the new carriageway was opened.
During the first week of August 2015, another 40 buses of the Turkish make Otokar arrived and were put into service.
Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by Caesar, and the month of August is named after him.
By the time of its admission for UN membership in August 1972, the new state was recognized by 86 countries.
On 14 August 2015, the Government of Pakistan launched the Ilm Pakistan movement, with a uniform curriculum in Urdish.
Another raid took place on 13 August 1943, after Mussolini had been ousted from power.
In August 1727, after taking his master's degree, Wesley returned to Epworth.
In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States.
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Twelve days later Aidan died, on 31 August, in the seventeenth year of his episcopate.
In August, William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, died and Thomas Cranmer was at once proposed by Henry to the Pope as his successor.
She is also commemorated in England on 30 August, along with martyrs Anne Line and Margaret Ward.
The emergency meeting of the joint defense council on 16 August agreed to strengthen the Punjab boundary force as quickly as possible.
It was also supported by Prince Albert, who persuaded August Wilhelm von Hofmann to be the first professor.
In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs.
November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, and June to August have the lightest winds.
Robert Greville was a Parliamentarian, and on 7 August 1642 a Royalist force laid siege to the castle.
This tree was blown down on 31 August 1863, and Queen Victoria had another tree planted on the same site.
On August 24, 2009 the ACT Government announced a complete ban on backyard fireworks.
In some municipalities of Western Finland it is allowed to use fireworks without a fire station's permission on the last weekend of August.
In Switzerland Fireworks are often used on the 1st of August, which is a national celebration day.
During July and August he travelled between his base in the town and his sloop off Ocracoke.
He made his way to Conwy, where on 12 August he met with the Earl of Northumberland for negotiations.
On 19 August, Richard II surrendered to Henry at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared.
On 10 August 1784 Allan Ramsay died and the office of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the king became vacant.
But in August Louis the Bavarian and his pope had to flee Rome before an attack by Robert, King of Naples.
The run sold out in seven hours after tickets went on sale 11 August 2014, more than a year before the play opened.
Kyd died later that year at the age of 35, and was buried on 15 August in St Mary Colechurch in London.
Locke was born on 29 August 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about 12 miles from Bristol.
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In August, Johnson's lack of an MA degree from Oxford or Cambridge led to his being denied a position as master of the Appleby Grammar School.
On 16 July, Byron left Genoa arriving at Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands on 4 August.
Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 at Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, near Horsham, West Sussex, England.
Blake's trouble with authority came to a head in August 1803, when he was involved in a physical altercation with a soldier, John Schofield.
Wells died of unspecified causes on 13 August 1946, aged 79, at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, London.
He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 16 August 1946, with his ashes scattered at sea near Old Harry Rocks.
In August, he moved into a flat in Kentish Town, which he shared with Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall.
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Archie was sent to France to fight the German forces.
His final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
From August 2008, Pratchett tested a prototype device to address his condition.
In August 2014, an adaptation of Soul Music was performed at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
On 1 and 2 August 2006, she read alongside Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Having received Jennens's text some time after 10 July 1741, Handel began work on it on 22 August.
George, who was summering in Hanover, returned to London at the end of August.
He returned to Aldeburgh in August, and wrote Welcome Ode for children's choir and orchestra.
Over the next eight years, Delius befriended many writers and artists, including August Strindberg, Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin.
Having been in excellent health, Vaughan Williams died suddenly in the early hours of 26 August 1958 at Hanover Terrace.
By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles and by the middle of August to the Beatles.
In August, journalist Al Aronowitz arranged for the Beatles to meet Bob Dylan.
Recognising that their shows were no longer about the music, they decided to make the August tour their last.
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In August 1975, however, Plant and his wife Maureen were involved in a serious car crash while on holiday in Rhodes, Greece.
Unable to tour, he headed to the Channel Island of Jersey to spend August and September recuperating, with Bonham and Page in tow.
On 20 August 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach put out a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music.
On 12 August 2012, Queen performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The subsequent A Bigger Bang Tour began in August 2005, and visited North America, South America and East Asia.
On 26 August 2007, they played their last concert of the Bigger Bang tour at the O2 Arena in London.
V Festival, often referred to simply as V Fest or VF is an annual music festival held in England during the penultimate weekend in August.
So in August 1996 there was one day of artists in Victoria Park and 2 days at Hylands Park with camping.
The first V festival took place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August 1996, and had two stages and one tent.
The 10th V Festival took place from Saturday 20 August to Sunday 21 August 2005, headlining with Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, and Scissor Sisters.
A limited number of tickets went on sale at 10am on 19 August 2008, following the end of the 2008 festival.
The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill.
The Wine Society was founded at the Hall on 4 August 1874, after large quantities of cask wine were forgotten about in the cellars.
He died in his sleep on 19 August 1988, at his country home in Suffolk, and was buried on 24 August at St Mary's Church, Yaxley, Suffolk.
They were married in August 1940, at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara.
Lyndon Terracini announced in August 2015 that Andrews will direct My Fair Lady in 2016 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.
During the same August 2011 holiday on Necker Island, Winslet met fellow guest Ned Rocknroll and they soon began dating.
Principal filming commenced in Sardinia in August 1976, moving on to Egypt shortly afterwards.
The second unit started filming in Iceland in July 1984, while principal photography with Moore commenced on 1 August at Pinewood.
Also in August, the second unit filmed in Paris, including scenes involving a parachute jump from the Eiffel Tower.
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In August 1984 the orchestra's managing director, Peter Hemmings, resigned.
In August 2009, Scott planned to direct an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World set in a dystopian London with Leonardo DiCaprio.
In August 2014, he added his name to a letter to British broadcasters calling for better representation of ethnic minorities.
In August 2014, it was announced he would provide the voice and do performance capture for the tiger Shere Khan in Warner Bros.
In August 2014, he recorded the first ever unabridged audiobook of William Golding's 1964 novel, The Spire, for Canongate Books.
There, on 8 August 1907 the New South Wales Rugby Football League was founded at Bateman's Hotel in George Street.
It was the national sport of India until the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports declared in August 2012 that India has no national sport.
In August, two more people were arrested in connection with the investigation.
England was chosen as host of the 1966 World Cup in Rome, Italy on 22 August 1960, over rival bids from West Germany and Spain.
From August 2006 to 2013, Umbro supplied match balls for all FA Cup matches.
Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.
The two transfer windows run from the last day of the season to 31 August and from 31 December to 31 January.
In August 2016, UEFA announced changes in the access list of the tournament, driven to avoid the creation of European Super League.
The stadium was scheduled to open in August 2011 and would hold 60,000 spectators, with HKS, Inc.
The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly.
In August 2012, Manchester United made an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
Chelsea, along with Arsenal, were the first club to play with shirt numbers, on 25 August 1928 in their match against Swansea Town.
No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.
Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux.
The Ensemble Offspring Sizzle is back on at Petersham bowlo on Sunday, August 19 at 3pm.
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An easy mistake to make though, you'll hear more Brummie in Welshpool in August than Welsh that's for sure.
Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.
Chamber plays became popular in the early 20th century, with leading exponents being Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg.
August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.
In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.
So was Repatha, or evolocumab, a similar drug developed by Amgen that is expected to win F.D.A. approval by the end of August.
In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.
Round-leaved female fluellin, or speedwell. It grows among the corn, flowering in July or August, in England.
On 1 August 1793, the Convention had permitted its commanders there to introduce free-fire zones in troubled areas.
The Apostolic Church holds its annual Apostolic Conference in Swansea each year, usually in August.
The annual Isle of Wight International Scooter Rally has since 1980 met on the August Bank Holiday.
On 13 August 1909, his wife would be the first woman in the UK to fly in a plane, also at Farnborough.
On 13 August 1964, Britain carried out its last two executions at Strangeways and Walton Prison.
The UK's biggest dance music festival takes place on the August Bank Holiday at Creamfields on Daresbury Estate.
Yorkshire Day, held on 1 August, is a celebration of the general culture of Yorkshire, ranging from its history to its own dialect.
Cosgrave, who had led both of these governments since August 1922, became the first President of the Executive Council.
In August 2006 the contents of Domesday went online, with an English translation of the book's Latin.
In 1057 various chroniclers report the death of Macbeth at Malcolm's hand, on 15 August 1057 at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire.
He successfully defended his title in July 2008 before going on to win the PGA Championship in August.
In August 2012, McIlroy won his 2nd major championship by winning the USPGA Championship by a record margin of 8 shots.
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The rutting, or mating, season lasts from June through September, with peak activity in July and August.
The outcome was the Treaty of Nonsuch of August 1585, in which Elizabeth promised military support to the Dutch.
In August 2016 YorkMix was nominated in two categories in the O2 Media Awards for Yorkshire and The Humber.
The penal laws were reinstated no later than 25 August 410 and the overall trend of repression of paganism continued.
The academic year has two semesters, from August to December and from January to June.
Although the army and fleet were ready by early August, adverse winds kept the ships in Normandy until late September.
Robert became Duke of Normandy on 6 August 1027, succeeding his elder brother Richard III, who had only succeeded to the title the previous year.
Henry's father advised him to come to terms with Louis and peace was made between them in August 1151 after mediation by Bernard of Clairvaux.
The remaining English rebel strongholds collapsed and in August Henry returned to Normandy.
It was not until August 1297 that he was finally able to sail for Flanders, at which time his allies there had already suffered defeat.
On 12 August 1415, Henry sailed for France, where his forces besieged the fortress at Harfleur, capturing it on 22 September.
From July to August, Henry's forces besieged and captured Dreux, thus relieving allied forces at Chartres.
As part of the June peace deal, the barons were supposed to surrender London by 15 August, but this they refused to do.
When the expected fleet did arrive in August, it was intercepted and defeated by loyalists at the Battle of Sandwich.
In August 1241, Dafydd capitulated and signed the Treaty of Gwerneigron, further restricting his powers.
In August 1415, Henry V sailed from England with a force of about 10,500 and laid siege to Harfleur.
In May it reached York, and during the summer months of June, July and August, it ravaged the north.
Late August 1792, elections were held, now under male universal suffrage, for the new National Convention.
By 15 or 16 August, Henry and his men had crossed the English border, making for the town of Shrewsbury.
In August 1485, Henry Tudor and his uncle, Jasper Tudor, led a second rebellion.
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On 22 August 1485, Richard met the outnumbered forces of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field.
In August 2005, the Royal Navy rescued seven Russians stranded in a submarine off the Kamchatka peninsula.
He invited Elizabeth to inspect her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August.
Mary rode triumphantly into London on 3 August 1553, on a wave of popular support.
On 3 August 1553, Mary rode triumphantly into London, with Elizabeth at her side.
He was released from prison in August 1592 to manage a recently returned expedition and attack on the Spanish coast.
The group disembarked on August 17, 1585, and built a small fort on the island.
White landed on August 18, 1590, on his granddaughter's third birthday, but found the settlement deserted.
Two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Sukarno and fellow nationalist leader Hatta unilaterally declared Indonesian independence.
Shortly after a proxy marriage in Copenhagen in August 1589, Anne sailed for Scotland but was forced by storms to the coast of Norway.
After the debacle at Hull, Charles moved on to Nottingham, where on 22 August 1642, he raised the royal standard.
By the end of August disease and a shortage of supplies had reduced his army, and he had to order a retreat towards his base at Dunbar.
The decline may also have been hastened by the death of one of his daughters, Elizabeth Claypole, in August.
Booth held Cheshire until the end of August when he was defeated by General Lambert.
In August the lieutenancy was remodelled and in September over one thousand members of the city livery companies were ejected.
Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered writs to be issued for a general election.
In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.
In August, it became clear that William had surprisingly strong support within the English army, a situation brought about by James himself.
In August 1866, the government announced their intention to refurbish Burlington House and move the Royal Academy and other societies there.
Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered the issue of writs for a general election.
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The people thus incited, De Witt and his brother, Cornelis, were brutally murdered by an Orangist civil militia in The Hague on 20 August.
Summer daytime temperatures regularly top 20 Celsius, typically reaching 25 Celsius on sunny days throughout July and August in particular.
Furet emphasises that the decisions of August 1789 survived and became an integral part of.
Legislation sanctioned on 4 August 1789 abolished the Church's authority to impose the tithe.
In reaction, on 19 August the Prussian general Duke of Brunswick invaded France and besieged Longwy.
Late August 1793, an army general had been guillotined on the accusation of choosing too timid strategies on the battlefield.
Bonaparte returned to France from Egypt on 23 August 1799, his campaign there having failed.
In August 1806, the Prussian king, Frederick William III, decided to go to war independently of any other great power.
By August 1805, Napoleon had realized that the strategic situation had changed fundamentally.
Repositioning their guns, the British brought Calvi under constant bombardment, and the town surrendered on 10 August.
The squadron remained off Tenerife for a further three days and by 16 August had rejoined Jervis's fleet off Cadiz.
He spent the summer reconnoitring the French coast, but apart from a failed attack on Boulogne in August, saw little action.
Nelson stayed briefly in London, where he was cheered wherever he went, before visiting Merton to see Emma, arriving in late August.
The Austrian Empire followed with an attack on the Serbian ally Montenegro on 8 August.
Romania's entry into the War in August 1916 provoked major changes for the Germans.
The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year.
The situation reached a general crisis in late August as German troops continued to mobilise against the Polish border.
In August, the United Kingdom and the United States jointly issued the Atlantic Charter.
In early August, the USAAF dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The preemptive mobilisation was started in France on 26 August, and on 1 September full mobilisation was declared.
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He proposed to Clementine during a house party at Blenheim Palace on 10 August 1908, in a small Temple of Diana.
In the early days of August 1921, the Churchills' children were entrusted to a French nursery governess in Kent, Mlle.
Rose sent for Clementine, but the illness proved fatal on 23 August 1921, and Marigold was buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery three days later.
The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.
A trial blackout was held on 10 August 1939 and when Germany invaded Poland on 1 September a blackout began at sunset.
The Soviet Union soon after it declared war on Japan in August 1945 annexed the the southern Kuril Islands, which Japan still claims.
In August 1996, Whittle died of lung cancer at his home in Columbia, Maryland.
Whittle died of lung cancer on 9 August 1996, at his home in Columbia, Maryland.
On August 28, 2001, a final draft of the Devolution Transfer Agreement was completed for consideration.
She was born on 24 August 2010, three weeks prematurely, while the family was on holiday in Cornwall.
On 21 August 2006, the tunnel was closed for several hours when a truck on an HGV shuttle train caught fire.
On 3 August 2007, an electrical failure lasting six hours caused passengers to be trapped in the tunnel on a shuttle.
On 4 August 2015, a Sudanese migrant walked nearly the entire length of one of the tunnels.
In August 1996 a one in 600 years storm left homes and businesses in Black Bull Road, in the Foord Valley, under two metres of water.
On August 27, 2002, a Nigerian court ordered the mother of a newborn child, Amina Lawal, to be publicly lapidated for adultery.
November to March have the highest mean wind speeds, with June to August having the lightest winds.
Cornwall Pride, a Pride event which celebrates diversity and the LGBT community, takes place on the last Saturday of every August.
With the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, the pound floated from August 1971 onwards.
On 7 August 2013, Governor Mark Carney issued the committee's first forward guidance as a third tool for controlling future inflation.
On 18 August 2006 it was announced that Saudi Arabia had agreed to purchase 72 Typhoons.
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On 8 August 2013, BAE officials commented that the Royal Bahraini Air Force was considering buying the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Instead, Henry gathered a fleet at Southampton and invaded the Norman coast in August of that year.
As of August 2009, internal demolition has started on the building that currently occupies the site.
As the Victorian era began, Darwin pressed on with writing his Journal, and in August 1837 began correcting printer's proofs.
August brings us to the eighth month of our modern calendar and the celebrations of the first harvest at Lughnasadh and the Corn Moon.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents' home in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902, and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city.
The restored memorial was ceremonially unveiled on 30 August 2014 by Alan Heather, a distant relative of Heaviside.
In August 1993, it was discovered that the proof contained a flaw in one area.
It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.
On 24 August 1902 Edward VII came down with appendicitis two days before his scheduled coronation.
Her maiden voyage was made in August and September 1845, from Liverpool to New York.
Six months after his wedding, George contracted pleurisy and died, aged 67, on 12 August 1848 at Tapton House in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
One was destroyed in early 1970 and another in August of that same year, after which the unit was disbanded.
The remaining four 'tall' masts were demolished on the afternoon of 2 August 2007 with no prior publicity.
This section was completed in August 1974, creating a continuous link between Ferrybridge and Tarbock.
In February 1999 Robinson Bus Service was purchased followed in August 1999 by Durham Transportation.
The British tradition of afternoon tea is still observed on the last Friday of each month, from January to August, at the hilltop mansion of the governor-general in Nassau.
On 15 August, William published a letter from Charles, in which the English king stated that he had made war because of the aggression of the De Witt faction.
In the August election of 1874 I bonded out of jail eighteen colored men that had been in there, and there has not one of them been tried yet, and they never will be.
Having been introduced to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi only the previous night in London, on 25 August they travelled to Bangor for his Transcendental Meditation retreat.
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William sent his navy to the city in July, and his army landed in August.
As a result, he resigned from his post at Cambridge in August.
The Birmingham Heritage Festival is a Mardi Gras style event in August.
On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis, a general term for inflammation of the heart and surrounding tissues.
Greengrass was born 13 August 1955 in Cheam, Surrey, England.
In August 2009, he appeared in ITV's Wuthering Heights, playing the part of Heathcliff, the classic love character who falls in love with his childhood friend Cathy.
The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.
From August to May, shorts or a light skirt are well worth having.
The festival runs from July to August every year, and the winner returns in November 18 for the fireworks display on the night before the National Day of Monaco.
In August 2007, Pratchett was misdiagnosed as having had a minor stroke in 2004 or 2005, which doctors believed had damaged the right side of his brain.
Sweden, which had already agreed to lease Swedish Pomerania as a military base for British troops against France, entered the coalition on 9 August.
The court noted this August, that an employee can be fired for cause based on incompetence, if he or she consistently fails to meet reasonable standards.
On 9 August 1975, John was named the outstanding rock personality of the year at the first annual Rock Music Awards at ceremonies held in Santa Monica, California.
Cattle futures settled lower as funds transferred some of their August long positions into October cattle futures on this day three of the five days of the Goldman Roll.
The sunniest time of year tends to be between May and August.
A large project, known as 'Blood for Britain' began in August 1940 to collect blood in New York City hospitals for the export of plasma to Britain.
Icebergs are common from February to August in the Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and Madeira.
The fours record was set 16 August 1995 at 7 hours 54 minutes.
In August 2010, Craig was cast as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
In August 1526, they left with two ships, 160 men and several horses.
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One of the most notable landmarks around Rugby was, until August 2007, the Rugby VLF transmitter, a large radio transmitting station just to the east of the town.
In August they robbed five people accompanying a coach on Barnes Common, and shortly after that they attacked another coach party, between Putney and Kingston Hill.
In August 1914 the United Kingdom entered the First World War.
He decided to go, stepping down from his political appointments and was appointed to command an infantry brigade in the Second Battle of Copenhagen which took place in August.
In August 1988 production moved to the Florida Keys, notably Key West.
On 23 August Japan joined the Entente, which then counted seven members.
Cowie plc bought United Automobile Services and British Bus in July and August 1996, both of which had acquired a number of privatised bus companies.
Malcolm arrived there on 24 August 1093 to find that William Rufus refused to negotiate, insisting that the dispute be judged by the English barons.
Handel also there encountered theologian and professor of Oriental languages August Hermann Francke, who was particularly solicitous of children, particularly orphans.
The largest is CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival held every August.
The main German air superiority campaign started in August but failed to defeat RAF Fighter Command, and a proposed invasion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September.
In August 2001 Govia started running the South Central rail franchise.
The Feriale Duranum, probably identical to the festival calendars of every regular army unit, assigns him a sacrifice of a steer on his birthday, the Kalends of August.
In August 1942, the Allies succeeded in repelling a second attack against El Alamein and, at a high cost, managed to deliver desperately needed supplies to the besieged Malta.
The traditional Roman calendar marked his feast day on March 17, but he is now listed, along with Saint Nicodemus, on August 31 in the Martyrologium Romanum.
A letter dated 13 August 1641, from Lady Roxburghe in England to a correspondent in The Hague, reported that van Dyck was recuperating from a long illness.
By August 937 Olaf had defeated his rivals for control of the Viking part of Ireland, and he promptly launched a bid for the former Norse kingdom of York.
On 15 August 1945, Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents finally signed on the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
The government of the Republic of Korea was established on August 15th, 1948, under President Syngman Rhee, and the Provisional Government was disbanded officially.
In August or September 1069 a large fleet sent by Sweyn II of Denmark arrived off the coast of England, sparking a new wave of rebellions across the country.
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In August 1943, there were over 30 Axis divisions on the territory of Yugoslavia, not including the forces of the Croatian puppet state and other quisling formations.
In August 1750, on a journey back from Germany to London, Handel was seriously injured in a carriage accident between The Hague and Haarlem in the Netherlands.
A contract for the construction and operation of Line 1 was awarded to the Altram consortium in August 1995, and construction began three months later.
John, following a message from his mother, Eleanor, rushed from Le Mans to Mirebeau, attacking the town on 1 August 1202, with William des Roches.
In August, only Dover, Lincoln, and Windsor remained loyal to John in the east, and Alexander II of Scotland travelled to Canterbury to pay homage to Louis.
In August 1941 WAAC commissioned Moore to draw miners working underground at the Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire, where his father had worked at the start of the century.
Henry Moore died on 31 August 1986, at the age of 88, in his home in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire where his body is interred in Perry Green churchyard.
To relieve Harfleur, Henry sent his brother, John of Lancaster, the Duke of Bedford, who raised a fleet and set sail from Beachy Head on 14 August.
Football is the most popular sport and is played from August to May.
In light of the result, BAA chose not to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and confirmed on 20 August 2012 that the airport would be sold.
The British began to assess the impact of the Blitz in August 1941 and the RAF Air Staff used the German experience to improve Bomber Command's offensives.
On 20 August 2012, after losing a case at the Court of Appeal, BAA agreed to cease challenging the Competition Commission's ruling and to sell Stansted.
Lord Chandos was appointed chairman of the National Theatre Board in 1962, and in August Olivier accepted its invitation to be the company's first director.
In August 2009, BW was listed on a leaked list of quangos to be abolished.
Confident that many magnates and even many of Richard's officers would join him, Henry set sail from Harfleur on 1 August 1485, with a force of exiles and French mercenaries.
Fought on 22 August 1485, the battle was won by the Lancastrians.
Elgar's sketches for a piano concerto dating from 1913 were elaborated by the composer Robert Walker and first performed in August 1997 by the pianist David Owen Norris.
Henry's first attempt to invade England was frustrated by a storm in 1483, but on his second attempt he arrived unopposed on 7 August 1485 on the southwest coast of Wales.
Anxious to secure his bride, Henry recruited mercenaries formerly in French service to supplement his following of exiles and set sail from France on 1 August.
Jonson died on 6 August 1637 and his funeral was held on 9 August.
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News of Henry's landing reached Richard on 11 August, but it took three to four days for his messengers to notify his lords of their king's mobilisation.
On 21 August, the Stanleys were making camp on the slopes of a hill north of Dadlington, while Henry encamped his army at White Moors to the northwest of their camp.
On 20 August, Richard rode from Nottingham to Leicester, joining Norfolk.
On 24 August, MacDonald agreed and formed a National Government composed of men from all parties with the specific aim of balancing the Budget and restoring confidence.
Figures published in August 2007 indicated that some 656,395 persons were accepted on to the scheme between 1 May 2004 and 30 June 2007, of whom 430,395 were Polish nationals.
Johnson, in August 1738, went, with all the same of his poetry, to offer himself a candidate for the mastership of the school at Appleby, in Leicestershire.
The large fleet units in the Royal Navy consisted of amphibious warfare ships and aircraft carriers, until August 2014, when the last carrier was decommissioned.
Hurricane season is from June to November, but they occur more frequently in August and September and more common in the northern islands of the Caribbean.
Milton addressed the Assembly on the matter of divorce in August 1643, at a moment when the Assembly was beginning to form its opinion on the matter.
It is Europe's largest free music event and takes place every August.
On 28 August 2015 it was announced that hundreds of pairs of discarded wellington boots from the 2015 festival were donated to the migrant camp at Calais.
On 1 August, the state started to release its own postal stamps, under the authority of the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State.
His successor was Noel White who became Chairman in 1990 In August 1991 David Moores, whose family had owned the club for more than 50 years became Chairman.
In August 2011, information leaked about production of a sequel to Blade Runner by Alcon Entertainment, with Alcon partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
Points West, a Hoot Gibson Western released by Universal Pictures in August 1929, was the last purely silent mainstream feature put out by a major Hollywood studio.
His feast is celebrated on the anniversary of his death, 31 August.
Following these events of August, the representative of Venice in England reported to the doge that the London government took considerable measures to stifle dissent.
The film premiered in London and New York in July and August, respectively, and was an international success, with some critics drawing comparison with the Marx Brothers.
The Guild Wheel is a public footpath and cycle route, created in 2012 in celebration of the Preston Guild and officially opened in August of that year.
A royalist uprising was planned for 1 August 1659, but it was foiled.

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