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.

# 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.

On August 19, 1991, a day before the New Union Treaty was to be signed devolving power to the republics, a group calling itself the " State Emergency Committee " seized power in Moscow declaring that Gorbachev was ill and therefore relieved of his position as president.

Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the King, undermined by several political reversals, was removed from the Committee and Robespierre, " the Incorruptible ", became its most influential member as it moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies.

In August 1833, after being elected to this fifth term, Polk became the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.

On August 19, 1991, when the State Emergency Committee assumed power in Moscow, there was an attempt to depose Akayev in Kyrgyzstan.

The First Assembly in December 1920 recommended that the Council take action aiming at the international organization of intellectual work, which it did by adopting a report presented by the Fifth Committee of the Second Assembly and inviting a Committee on Intellectual Cooperation to meet in Geneva in August 1922.

Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942.

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.

Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the King, was removed from the Committee.

In August 2009, the Scheme Steering Committee which oversees the standardization process announced its intention to recommend splitting Scheme into two languages: a large modern programming language for programmers, and a subset of the large version retaining the minimalism praised by educators and casual implementors ; two working groups were created to work on these two new versions of Scheme.

Khrushchev sent the memo with his approval to his deputy Frol Kozlov and on August 1 it was, with minor revisions, passed as a CPSU Central Committee directive.

The Convention adjourned from July 26 to August 6 to await the report of this " Committee of Detail ".

Allen's statue stood in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol until, after a statewide poll run by the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted August 26, 2010 to replace him with the statute of inventor Thomas A. Edison.

* August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

* August 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong, with the intent to make these activities illegal.

On August 8, 1966, the party's Central Committee passed its " Decision Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution " ( a. k. a. " the 16 Points ").

In August, the Party's Eleventh Congress was held in Beijing, officially naming ( in ranking order ) Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, and Wang Dongxing as new members of the Politburo Standing Committee.

The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7, 1973.

( On August 20, 1974, the Committee would formally submit H. Rept.

# Jeb Stuart Magruder ( R ), Head of Committee to Re-elect the President, pled guilty to 1 count of conspiracy, August 1973

Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Senate Majority Secretary and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance.

Gandhi strongly pressured the All India Congress Committee to approve of an all-out campaign of civil disobedience, and the AICC approved the campaign on 7 August 1942.

Patel was arrested on 9 August and was imprisoned with the entire Congress Working Committee from 1942 to 1945 at the fort in Ahmednagar.

* Interstate Economic Committee, a committee of the Soviet Government following the 1991 August Coup.