The Battle Hostile_encounter of Mars-La-Tour ( also known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Vionville or Battle Hostile_encounter of Rezonville ) was fought Hostile_encounter on 16 August 1870 , during the Franco-Prussian War Hostile_encounter , near the village of Mars-La-Tour in northeast France .

This intelligence Perception_active prompted Preventing_or_letting General Prince Friedrich Karl , commander of the Prussian Second Army , to order Arranging at 1900 on 15 August a grossly outnumbered group of 30,000 men of the advanced Cause_to_make_progress III Corps under General Constantin von Alvensleben to cut off Having_or_lacking_access the French line of retreat Escaping at Mars-la-Tour and Vionville .

On 16 August , the French could have swept Scouring away the key Prussian defense Defending and escaped Escaping .

Prevented Preventing_or_letting from retreating Escaping , the French inside Metz had no choice Choosing but to fight Hostile_encounter the Battle Hostile_encounter of Gravelotte on 18 August .

Wukong made Manufacturing landfall at peak intensity late on August 17 near Miyazaki City in southern Kyūshū .

The storm weakened Cause_change_of_strength to a tropical depression before dissipating Dispersal on August 21 .

The village was recaptured Conquering for the last time on 29 August , by the 18th Division , during the Second Battle of Bapaume .

This accident is memorable for grounding all Lockheed Constellations from July 12 until August 23 , 1946 when cargo fire detection equipment could be installed Placing .

After almost dissipating Dispersal on August 10 , Irene peaked Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as a Category 2 hurricane Catastrophe on August 16 .

After almost dissipating Dispersal on August 10 , Irene peaked Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as a Category 2 hurricane Catastrophe on August 16 .

The meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav spanned Expansion eleven days , from August 25 to September 4 , 2008 .

Gustav was severely disrupted Hindering by Hispaniola 's mountains and stalled , disorganized , in the Gulf of Gonâve between August 26 and 27 .

First detected Know east of the Lesser Antilles on 26 August , the disturbance drifted Motion toward the northwestern Leeward Islands , arriving Arriving by 29 August .

First detected Know east of the Lesser Antilles on 26 August , the disturbance drifted Motion toward the northwestern Leeward Islands , arriving Arriving by 29 August .

On 24 August 2010 , `` The Times Leader '' newspaper of Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , reported Reporting that Waters and company were in town rehearsing Practice for the tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena .

The 15 August 1984 PKK attacks Attack , which were led Causation by Mahsum Korkmaz ( known as `` Agit '' ) , marked the start Process_start of the last phase of Kurdish–Turkish conflict Hostile_encounter .

After years of preparation GetReady , the PKK launched Military_operation its first major attacks Attack on 15 August 1984 .

Initially , Turkish authorities did not take the attacks Attack seriously , however the attack Attack was followed Arriving up by a raid Attack on a police station in Siirt on 17 August , which was soon followed by an attack Attack that killed Killing three of General Kenan Evren 's Presidential Guards in Yüksekova and an ambush Attack which killed Killing 8 Turkish soldiers in Çukurca , in Hakkâri province .

Around 2,500 people were killed Killing during the conflict Hostile_encounter between the 15 August 1984 and 1991 .

Cleanup started Process_start in August 1979 , and officially ended Process_end in December 1993 , with a total cleanup cost Cost of about $ 1 billion .

The Bombardment of Algiers ( 27 August 1816 ) was an attempt by Britain and the Netherlands to end Process_end the slavery practices of Omar Agha , the Dey of Algiers .

Held Social_event during four non-consecutive nights in August 2011 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City , the concerts Social_event were part of Beyoncé 's campaign Social_event in support Supporting of her fourth studio album `` 4 '' ( 2011 ) .

The first show , on August 14 , 2011 , received Receiving critical acclaim ; Beyoncé 's ability to perform Self_motion under the circumstances of a smaller stage and a larger band was commended Judgment_communication by contemporary music critics .

The British began Process_start a desultory bombardment Attack on 31 August and the shelling Use_firearm became Becoming intense from 13 September , to `` soften Cause_change_of_strength '' the German defences , except in the area of the Fifth Army ( General Hubert Gough ) , where the slow bombardment Attack continued until before zero hour , when a surprise hurricane bombardment Attack was to be fired Use_firearm .

The Ferguson Unrest ( sometimes called Name_conferral the Ferguson Uprising , Ferguson Riots , or simply Ferguson ) involved Cause_to_be_included protests and riots that began Process_start the day after the fatal shooting Use_firearm of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9 , 2014 , in Ferguson , Missouri .

They also support Supporting up and coming Motion DJ 's and in August 2016 , they had Evan Duthie perform Action .

Additionally , it was the last Super Bowl to be played Competition in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina slammed Motion the city on August 29 , 2005 ; the first since then was Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 .

The 2019 event ran Process_start from August 25 to September 2.At Burning Man , the community explores Testing various forms of artistic self-expression , which are created Creating to be enjoyed Perception_active by all participants .

During the Second World War , Britain had a nuclear weapons project , codenamed Tube Alloys , which was merged Cause_to_amalgamate with the American Manhattan Project in August 1943 .

A final series of four tests Testing in August and September 1958 , known as Grapple Z , tested Testing techniques for boosting Cause_to_make_progress and making Manufacturing bombs immune to predetonation caused Causation by nearby nuclear explosions .

During 2003 , the price rose Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale above $ 30 , reached Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale $ 60 by 11 August 2005 , and peaked Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale at $ 147.30 in July 2008 .

Oil prices stabilized by August 2009 and generally remained Temporary_stay in a broad trading range between $ 70 and $ 120 through November 2014 , before returning Change to 2003 pre-crisis levels by early 2016 .

It remained Presence the deadliest single-aircraft accident until the crash Catastrophe of Japan Airlines flight 123 on 12 August 1985 , and the deadliest aviation accident without survivors until the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision on 12 November 1996 .

They were the first nuclear weapon tests Testing since Trinity in July 1945 , and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing Attack of Nagasaki on August 9 , 1945 .

The remnant moisture later sparked Lighting upper-level thunderstorms in late July and early August .

While heading west-northwestward , Fran steadily strengthened Cause_change_of_strength into a hurricane on August 29 , but weakened Cause_change_of_strength back to a tropical storm Catastrophe on the following day .

On August 31 , Fran quickly re-intensified Cause_change_of_strength into a hurricane Catastrophe .

The first siege , in August 1707 , resulted in Causation the destruction Destroying of the town , but Fort San Carlos de Austria successfully resisted Defending the onslaught .

The second tropical cyclone Catastrophe and first tropical storm Catastrophe of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season , it originated Coming_to_be from a tropical wave in the Gulf of Mexico , southeast of Texas , on August 9 .

By August 10 , it made Motion landfall Arriving between Galveston and Beaumont .

Briefly reemerging over the Gulf on August 15 , the depression moved Motion onshore a second time in Florida , before dissipating Change over eastern Georgia on August 17 .

Briefly reemerging over the Gulf on August 15 , the depression moved Motion onshore a second time in Florida , before dissipating Change over eastern Georgia on August 17 .

The operation began Process_start in April 1942 , after the Japanese blocked Hiding_objects the Burma Road , and continued daily to August 1945 , when the effort began Process_start to scale Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale down .

On August 2 , U.S. soldiers attacked Attack the remnants of the British Band at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Bad Axe , killing Killing many and capturing Conquering most who remained alive .

The El Calabozo massacre Violence was an incident during the Salvadoran Civil War on 21-22 August 1982 , in which more than two hundred people , including children and elderly , were reportedly killed Killing at El Calabozo by the Atlacatl Battalion of the Salvadoran Army .

In August 1982 , the Salvadoran military attacked Attack the San Vicente Department , an area where the rebel Attack Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was known Know to have bases .

On the night of August 21 , a group of internally displaced people was overtaken beside the Amatitán river by the Atlacatl Battalion , a US-trained counter-insurgency unit .

The Action of 4 August 1800 was a highly unusual naval engagement Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Spanish campaign against the Aztec Empire had its final victory on 13 August 1521 , when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured Conquering the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan , the capital of the Aztec Empire .

The Spanish , Tlaxcalans and reinforcements returned Self_motion a year later on 13 August 1521 to a civilization that had been weakened Cause_change_of_strength by famine and smallpox .