André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

On August 7, 1998, Andrés Pastrana was sworn in as the President of Colombia.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ), led by the warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, attacked in August 1998, backed by Rwandan and Ugandan troops.

They were later to turn against Kabila and backed a rebellion against him in August 1998.

He took office on August 10, 1998.

Constitutional changes enacted by a specially elected National Constitutional Assembly in 1998 took effect on August 10, 1998.

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.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

Following the 1998 resignation of Suharto, on 30 August 1999, the people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum.

In August 1998, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on an Extended Fund Facility ( EFF ) under President B. J Habibie that included significant structural reform targets.

The rupiah, which had been in the Rp 2, 600 / USD1 range at the start of August 1997 fell to 11, 000 / USD1 by January 1998, with spot rates around 15, 000 for brief periods during the first half of 1998.

Despite the 31 August 1998 North Korean missile test which overflew the Home Islands, Japan has maintained its support for the Korean Energy Development Organization ( KEDO ) and the Agreed Framework, which seeks to freeze the North Korean nuclear program.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

In August 1998, Polgár became the first woman to ever win the U. S. Open held at the Kona Surf Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

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.

In 1997, Kid Rock added drummer / vocalist Stefanie Eulinberg to his band, joining Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden and Joe C .. On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released Devil Without a Cause behind the single " Welcome 2 The Party.

Russia withdrew its troops by 31 August 1994, but maintained several hundred technical specialists to staff an OSCE-monitored phased-array ABM radar station at Skrunda until 31 August 1998.

Conditions remained tumultuous, including an August 1994 coup by Letsie III, until 1998 when the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) came to power in elections which were deemed fair by international observers.

The protests culminated in a violent demonstration outside the royal palace in early August 1998 and in an unprecedented level of violence, looting, casualties, and destruction of property.

and August 15, November 15, February 17, and May 15, ( Cranston ).

* India got independence on 15 August 1947.

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* Indian Independence day on August 15

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

** August 15 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

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

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

* California boosts tax on ' alcopops ', Associated Press, August 15, 2007.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011, Radio 1 ended each day of the festival from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August with the Fun & Filth Cabaret.

They married in Lubbock on August 15, 1958, less than two months later.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.