Bundesliga played between Frankfurter Löwen and Düsseldorf Panther, first-ever league game of American football in Germany. August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania. Mauritania withdraws from the Western Sahara territory it had occupied, and cedes it to the SADR. August 6 - Bauhaus releases their debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead", considered to be the first gothic rock release. August 8 – Two American commercial divers, Richard Walker and Victor Guiel, die of hypothermia after their diving bell becomes stranded at a depth of over in the East Shetland Basin. The legal repercussions of the accident will lead to important safety changes in the diving industry. August 9 – Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; the killers have not yet been identified. August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album. August 11 The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco. The Machchu-2 dam in Morbi, India, collapses, killing between 1800 and 25000 people in one of the worst ever dam failures. August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the deaths of 15 sailors. August 17 – The controversial religious satirical film Monty Python's Life of Brian premieres in the United States. August 27 – The Troubles: Lord Mountbatten of Burma and two others are killed in a bombing on his boat in the Republic of Ireland by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Mountbatten was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of The Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs, killing 18 British soldiers. Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne would die in a hospital the following day from injuries sustained in the bombing. August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States. September September 1 The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of . Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps is formed. September 7 – The first cable sports channel, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network (better known as ESPN), is launched