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.

On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

The concept of ' psychopathic inferiorities ' had been recently popularised in Germany by Julius Ludwig August Koch, who proposed congenital and acquired types.

The inheritance of acquired traits was shown to have little basis in the 1880s when August Weismann cut the tails off many generations of mice and found that their offspring continued to develop tails.

On August 27, 2009, A + E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services.

Miller acquired the U. S. marketing and distribution rights to Molson's products, and first introduced the Molson product in the United States in August 1993 as Molson Ice.

Kangol has been owned by Sports World since 2006, when they acquired the brand from private equity fund, August Equity Trust.

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.

QED was acquired by the semiconductor manufacturer PMC-Sierra in August 2000, the latter company continuing to invest in the MIPS architecture.

In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.

In August of 2003, Ubisoft acquired the rights to the Might and Magic franchise for US $ 1. 3 million after 3DO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

On August 9, 2012, Digia acquired Qt software technologies from Nokia.

In August 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts for $ 122. 5 million in cash.

After the boom in orders during the First World War, the lack of new work in peacetime caused severe financial problems and in August 1920, 68. 5 % of the company's shares were acquired by nearby Crossley Motors who had an urgent need for more factory space for automotive vehicle body building.

In August 2010, OICA acquired a letterpress and had the Cherokee syllabary recast to begin printing one-of-a-kind fine art books and prints in the Cherokee language.

* Dynamix in Eugene, Oregon, founded 1984, acquired August 1990, closed August 14, 2001.

In August 2005, FT acquired a 77 % ownership in the Spanish mobile phone company Amena, rebranding it Orange España.

" On August 20, 2010, the bank was declared insolvent, closed by regulators and most its assets were acquired by Urban Partnership Bank.

Offense was led by Chad Maddox (. 307 ) and Ryan Wehrle (. 317 ), and in August, Frontier League all-star Ernie Banks was acquired from the Washington Wild Things and hit. 353 on the season.

On August 11, 2010, the Pacers acquired guard Darren Collison and swingman James Posey from the New Orleans Hornets in a four-team, five-player deal.

On August 10, 2012, in a four-team trade the Lakers acquired Dwight Howard along with Chris Duhon, and Earl Clark.

Maple Pictures held the rights to distribute Miramax films in Canada from 2008 up until August 10, 2011 when Maple Pictures was acquired by Alliance Films.

Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

In November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.