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.

The film opened in the US at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, on August 14, 1975.

The car, a 1923 Citroën 5CV Type C Torpedo, was driven by Neville Westwood from Perth, Western Australia on a round trip from August to December 1925.

The first installment, Command & Conquer, was released worldwide by Westwood on August 31, 1995 and featured the Earth becoming infected by a mysterious resource known only as Tiberium.

The Borough Act resulted in a flurry of new boroughs created from portions of the township in 1894 as the " Boroughitis " phenomenon swept through The Township of Washington: Westwood ( May 8, 1894 ), Park Ridge ( May 14, 1894 ), Eastwood ( part ; created June 6, 1894, borough lasted until 1896 ), Montvale ( part ; created August 31, 1894 ) and Woodcliff ( part ; created August 31, 1894, name changed to Woodcliff Lake in 1910 ).

* Westwood Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada, founded in 1987, acquired from Virgin Interactive Entertainment in August 1998, merged into EA Los Angeles in 2003.

On August 30, 2010, Pattiz stepped down from the board and was succeeded as chairman by Mark Stone, Senior Managing Director of the Gores Group, which by then was majority owner and controlled Westwood.

Westwood One announced its merger with Dial Global in August 2011.

Westwood first reached the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings in July 1998 and spent a total of 160 weeks in the top 10 between then and August 2001.

On 28 August 2010, Westwood officially opened his first, and one of the UK's few, golf schools.

As of August 2007, WMNI has reportedly shifted back to the Westwood One ( now Dial Global ) " Adult Standards " format.

* August 21-The Mount Morgan Railway in Queensland, Australia, opens between Rockhampton and Westwood via Kabra.

The network was sold, along with the rest of NBC's radio operations, to Westwood One in August 1987.

On August 31, 2008, Electronic Arts who acquired Westwood Studios in 2003 officially rendered Command & Conquer: Red Alert freeware .< ref name =" ccrafree "> To download the games, remove the < nowiki > http :// replay. waybackmachine. org / 20080831173547 /</ nowiki > part on each link in the site .</ ref >

On August 28, 1998, Westwood Studios released Red Alert Retaliation for the PlayStation, a compilation of the two PC expansion packs, including the secret Ant Missions.

On August 14, 2003, Larson was hired by Westwood One Radio Network to host his own show for national syndication.

William James Westwood ( August 19, 1887 — 1954 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

The new Coleoptera were described by Joseph Sugar Baly, Francis Walker, John Obadiah Westwood, Carl August Dohrn and Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe.

Notable contributors were John Obadiah Westwood, Francis Walker, Carl August Dohrn ), Maximilian Spinola and John Gould and Charles Darwin.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

This was working by the end of August and giving satisfactory service.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The normal rate of suicides in East Berlin was one a day, but since the border was closed on August 13 it has jumped to 25 a day!!

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

He was named Adjutant General as a colonel in the Republic of Texas Army on August 5, 1836.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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