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Event Search Results for "August"
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Next total solar eclipse to be visible from North America.
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Officials in Greece said all major blazes were under control, and firefighters were working to extinguish smaller fires in the southern part of the country. The fires cost the country at least $1.6 billion and left 67 people dead. The government provided 13,000 euros to those suffering losses.
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President Bush met privately at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who conveyed their concern about a growing strain on troops and their families from long and re-peated combat tours in Iraq. Bush also announced a set of modest proposals to deal with an alarming rise in mortgage defaults.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia will accept a partition of Serbia's Kosovo province if that is the solution agreed by Belgrade and Kosovo's ethnic Alba-nian majority. Both Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians have said they oppose partition but they have shown no sign of reaching agreement on the central issue of independence for Kosovo.
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State media said Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has banned all pay rises without authorization and given himself extra powers in a new bid to curb the world's highest in-flation rate.
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The 34th annual Telluride Film Festival opened in Colorado.
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The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation into allegations by the US and Mexico that China is providing illegal subsidies for a range of industries.
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Turkey's PM Erdogan laid out a policy vision for the next five years that focuses on pursuing EU membership and defending the state's secular and democratic principles.
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Mike Nifong, the disgraced former district attorney of Durham County, N.C., was sentenced to a day in jail after being held in criminal contempt of court for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
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A car bomb exploded near a police vehicle in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, killing four police officers in Nazran, Ingushetia.
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Current & future events search result for "August"
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Birth Search Results for "August"
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December-17-1995
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August Rush, musician in the movie August Rush
August-04-1970
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John August, American screenwriter
February-13-1958
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Pernilla August, Swedish actress
February-26-1954
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Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, heir to the deposed Kingdom of Hanover and a husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
November-09-1948
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Bille August, Danish film and television director
April-27-1945
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August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
February-24-1909
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August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
February-12-1908
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August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
April-16-1907
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August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
March-30-1907
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Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
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Death Search Results for "August"
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October-02-2005 -
August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
July-07-1994 -
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907)
August-19-1982 -
August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
January-16-1979 -
August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
July-04-1971 -
August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
July-06-1962 -
Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
September-13-1949 -
August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
May-28-1947 -
August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
November-08-1945 -
August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
May-14-1912 -
August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
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