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

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

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.

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

Regardless, the territory was formally transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* EU27 population projections 2008-2060, Eurostat Newsrelease 119 / 2008, 26 August 2008.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

Lauper made her film debut in August 1988 in the quirky comedy Vibes, alongside Jeff Goldblum, Julian Sands, Elizabeth Peña and Peter Falk.

* Cher-October 6, 2002, with Cyndi Lauper and August 2, 2004, with Tommy Drake

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

Blair now contributed regularly to Adelphi, with " A Hanging " appearing in August 1931.

The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery as of August 1, 1834, throughout the British Empire.

*: After the successful U. S. invasion of Iraq, Thailand contributed 423 troops in August 2003 to nation building and medical assistance in post-Sadam Iraq.

He contributed to the tactics used during the Battle of Mărăşeşti ( July – August 1917 ), when Romanians under General Alexandru Averescu managed to stop the advance of German forces under the command of Field Marshal August von Mackensen.

Hadfield was assigned by the Canadian Space Agency ( CSA ) to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in August of the same year, where he addressed technical and safety issues for Shuttle Operations Development, contributed to the development of the glass shuttle cockpit, and supported shuttle launches at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida.

Latimer's health has progressed and he contributed guitar solos and vocal tracks to David Minasian's album Random Acts of Beauty ( August 2010 ).

It was at his instigation that Marseille sent to Paris the battalion of volunteers that arrived in Paris singing the Marseillaise, and which contributed to the Paris Commune insurrection remembered as the tenth of August 1792 against King Louis XVI.

Belinda also contributed a total of 4 songs to The Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack, which was released on August 15, 2006 and debuted at # 5 on the Billboard 200 and it has sold 1. 4 million copies to date in the US.

The erosion of Chinese sovereignty contributed to a spectacular anti-foreign outbreak in June 1900, when the " Boxers " ( properly the society of the " righteous and harmonious fists ") attacked foreign legations in Beijing, provoking a rare display of unity among the powers, whose troops landed at Tianjin and marched on the capital, which they took on August 14.

After the death of August Pauly, the editor of the well-known Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Teuffel, at first assisted by Ernst Christian Walz, undertook the completion of the work, to which he also contributed numerous articles.

Mattock made his live debut on 24 August at a gig at the Riverside in Hammersmith, London, and contributed to the new album.

During 1857, Clausius contributed to the field of kinetic theory after refining August Krönig's very simple gas-kinetic model to include translational, rotational and vibrational molecular motions.

There they played the works of George Bernard Shaw and August Strindberg while Charles contributed verse to " Bruno's Weekly " under the pseudonym " Tom Sleeper ".

It is often thought that Eddie Durham ( who contributed other arrangements on the recording date of " In The Mood ", August 1, 1939 as well ), John Chalmers McGregor ( Miller's pianist ) and Miller himself contributed most to the final version.

Famous researchers, such as the chemist August Wilhelm Hofmann, the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, the mathematicians Ernst Eduard Kummer, Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass, the physicians Johannes Peter Müller, Albrecht von Graefe, Rudolf Virchow and Robert Koch, contributed to Berlin University's scientific fame.

On 11 August 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced $ 2. 1bn in funding for the Epping to Parramatta Rail Link with $ 520m to be contributed by the NSW Government.

Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS ( 5 August 189312 March 1966 ) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters.

In August 2009, Dashboard Confessional contributed a song to the motion picture soundtrack for dark comedy film Jennifer's Body, titled " Finishing School ".

Disaffection with high unemployment and racism contributed to the Watts Riots of August 11 – 17, 1965.

Having changed sides, de Clare shared the Prince's victory at Kenilworth on 16 July, and in the Battle of Evesham, 4 August, in which de Montfort was slain, he commanded the second division and contributed largely to the victory.

On August 30, 2007, The Catholic University of America, ( with the Opus Prize 2004 Foundation, affiliated with The Opus Group ), announced that it would award on November 8, a $ 1-million and two $ 100, 000 Humanity prizes to finalists organizations which contributed to solve most persistent social problems: Father John Adams ( of SOME ( So Others Might Eat ), which serves the poor and homeless in Washington, D. C .); Brother Stan Goetschalckx, F. C., ( founder and director of AHADI International Institute in Tanzania, which educates refugees from Congo, Rwanda and Burundi ); and Vincentian priest, Fr.