August
- 2 August: Latvia, Constitutional referendum
- 5 August: Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect)
- 10 August: Bolivia, Recall referendum
- 23 August: Latvia, Pensions law referendum
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Famous quotes containing the word august:
“A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)