From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas on August 15, 2002.

She notably spoke of her support for its reintroduction for the worst cases of murder in the aftermath of the murder of two 10-year-old girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

The death penalty was removed from peacetime law in August 2002, and in May 2004 Turkey amended its constitution in order to remove capital punishment in all circumstances.

" On August 13, 2002 American Catholic bishops issued a joint statement with leaders of Reform and Conservative Judaism, called " Reflections on Covenant and Mission ", which affirmed that Christians should not target Jews for conversion.

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Bucknell University Press ( August 1, 2002 ).

A proposed alternative end-of-mission plan involved an encounter with the asteroid 1999 KK1 in August 2002.

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (; May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002 ) was a Dutch computer scientist.

He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.

* Baddeley, Gavin: Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture ( Plexus, US, August 2002, ISBN 0-85965-308-0 )

* XHTML 1. 0, published January 26, 2000, as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002.

Windows XP SP1 was released in September 2002, SP2 came out in August 2004 and SP3 came out in April 2008.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

As of August 2007, Chile ’ s share of worldwide salmon industry sales was 38. 2 %, rising from just 10 % in 1990.

Unemployment finally dipped to 7. 8 % in 2006, and continued to fall in 2007, averaging 6. 8 % monthly ( up to August ).

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe revalued on 1 August 2006 at a ratio of 1 000 ZWD to each second dollar ( ZWN ), but year-to-year inflation rose by June 2007 to 11, 000 % ( versus an earlier estimate of 9, 000 %).

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

Another August 2006 poll by CNN showed that 69 % of the 1, 047 Americans polled believed that Hezbollah is unfriendly towards, or an enemy of, the United States.

As a result of FDA enforcement action, by August 2010, 88 % of the hydrocodone-containing medications had been removed from the market.

By August 1993, both Molson and Labatt had introduced ice beer products in Canada, with Labatt having captured a 10 % market share.

On August 5, 1996, Dole announced a 15 % flat tax in response to both the Forbes campaign and Kemp's tax reform commission.

In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.

Kazakhstan's economy turned downward in 1998 with a 2. 5 % decline in GDP growth due to slumping oil prices and the August financial crisis in Russia.

Inflation reached a record 100 % in August 1993, and the government's budget deficit was over 10 % of GDP.

By August 2009, Latvia's GDP had fallen by 20 % year on year, with S & P predicting a further 16 % contraction to come.

From 10 July traffic began increasing again, and after a brief shutdown on 15 July, it was reaching about 15 % of its pre-17 February levels up to 22 August, the day Tripoli fell to the rebels.

* August 29, 2005, Katrina ( Category 3 at landfall ) struck and devastated southeastern Louisiana, where it breached and undermined levees in New Orleans, causing 80 % of the city to flood.

On August 2, 2004, Terra announced that it was selling Lycos to Seoul, South Korea-based Daum Communications Corporation for $ 95. 4 million in cash ($ million today ), less than 2 % of Terra's initial multi-billion dollar investment.

According to a study in August 2007 by GfK, 61 % of German households have a Payback card.

The budget deficit at the end of August 2011 reached about 2 % of GDP, and fiscal authorities seemed committed to keeping it under the projected target of 2. 5 % of GDP by the end of the year.