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

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.

# When Body Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 2002

# Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review — August 19, 2002 to May 25, 2003

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.

Ezekiel is commemorated on August 28 on the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

* August 12 – Viktor Hambardzumyan, Soviet Armenian scientist ( b. 1908 )

Basil I, called the Macedonian (, Basíleios hō Makedṓn ;, Barsegh A Makedonatsi ; 830 / 835 – August 29, 886 ) was a Byzantine Emperor of probable Armenian descent who reigned from 867 to 886.

Tigran Petrosian ( Tigran Petrosyan ; Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan ) ( June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984 ) was a Soviet Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.

In August, 2004 Galás released the album Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead, an 80-minute memorial to the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Hellenic victims of the Turkish genocide.

* August 7 – Two members of the " Pierre Gulumian Commando " group of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ( ASALA ) attack Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, detonating a bomb and then opening fire with submachine guns.

On August 10, 1982, Artin Penik a Turk of Armenian descent, set himself on fire in protest of this attack.

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Dormition not on a fixed date, but on the Sunday nearest August 15.

* August 23-Turkish military attaché to Canada, Colonel Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa.

At the news of the coming of the Byzantine and Armenian troops, Nur ed-Din raised the siege, but Bohemond III decided to follow in pursuit ; the armies made contact on 10 August, near Artah.

The Armenian Supreme Soviet adopted the current flag on 24 August 1990.

The Armenian quote is a paragraph understood to have been included in a speech by Adolf Hitler to Wehrmacht commanders at his Obersalzberg home on August 22, 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland.

Three documents grouped in together during Nuremberg Trials which were containing Hitler's speech on 22 August 1939 ( 1014-PS, 789-PS, and L-3 ,) and only the document L-3 contained Armenian Quote of the Hitler's speech.

Ramil Sahib oglu Safarov (; born August 25, 1977 ) is a convicted murderer who, while participating in a NATO-sponsored course of studies in Budapest in 2004 as a lieutenant of the Azerbaijani army, killed a fellow attendee, Armenian army lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, with an axe.

Jabrayil was captured by Armenian forces on August 26, 1993, and remains under Armenian control as part of the unresolved Armenia – Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Viktor Hambardzumyan (, ) ( – August 12, 1996 ) was a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics.

At Dyutsaznamart (, " Battle of Giants "), near Julamerk southeast of Lake Van, on August 11, 2492 BC ( according to the Armenian traditional chronology ) or 2107 BC ( according to " The Chronological table " of Mikael Chamchian ), Hayk slew Bel with a nearly impossible shot using a long bow, sending the king's forces into disarray.

Vazgen I ( also Vasken I,, born Levon Garabed Baljian ; September 20, 1908 – August 18, 1994 ) was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1955 and 1994, in one of the longest reigns of the Armenian Catholicoi.

He is commemorated as a patriarch by the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod in their Calendar of Saints on May 9, and in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on August 30.

* August 23, 1982-Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian militants in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.

LT. Avokian and some of his fellow Armenian prisoners were then pressed into service by the Germans and were later captured by the crew of the USS Eberle ( DD 430 ) on Monday, August 21, 1944 at the Île de Porquerolles.