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Examples:Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Christian festival on 15th August)—Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists—cf Birthday of the Flowers on lunar 15th February and Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August—cf Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945—cf Japan's surrender on 15th August 1945, celebrated as Liberation Day in Korea—Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War—refers Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945—August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist—9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey—Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), German pedagogue—bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called second Taiwan strait crisis—cf Japan's surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945—Mid-autumn Festival on lunar 15th August—8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep—Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee—Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-) Governor of Utah from 2005 2009, US Ambassador to China since August 2009—Nadam or Games, Mongolian national harvest festival in July-August— |