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.

The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

Public transportation between Sparrows Point, Dundalk and Baltimore City was operated by the United Railways and Electric Company's ( later the Baltimore Transit Company ) # 26 streetcar line which ran down the middle of Dundalk Avenue until August 1958.

However, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority ( MBTA ) sued the students and MIT in United States District Court in Massachusetts on August 8, claiming that the students violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ( CFAA ) by delivering information to conference attendees that could be used to defraud the MBTA of transit fares.

From 1969 until 1973, TriMet bus routes were named but not numbered, a practice inherited from Rose City Transit and the " Blue Bus " lines, but route numbers were assigned to all routes in August 1973.

The Treaty of Moscow ( August 1970 ), the Treaty of Warsaw ( December 1970 ), the Four Power Agreement on Berlin ( September 1971 ), the Transit Agreement ( May 1972 ), and the Basic Treaty ( December 1972 ) helped to normalise relations between East and West Germany and led to both states joining the United Nations, in September 1973.

Twelve married pairs were delivered in August 2006 to the operator North County Transit District ( NCTD ).

Two of them were built and operated by private companies: August Belmont's Interborough Rapid Transit Company ( IRT ) and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ).

OCTA's predecessor agency, the Orange County Transit District, was created in August 1972 by a referendum of county voters.

* August 11-The first fatal accident aboard a Toronto Transit Commission subway kills three

* On August 1, 1920, subway service on the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation's Brighton Beach Line officially began upon opening of Montague Street Tunnel and a two track line connecting Prospect Park and DeKalb Avenue.

On 29 August 2011, SBS Transit was given the operation license for the Downtown Line, which would start in 2013.

Grand River Transit has purchased six Diesel-Hybrid buses which began service in late August 2008.

For Costa Rican historiography the war is divided into three parts: The First Campaign ( March – April 1856 ), The Second Campaign or Transit Campaign ( October 1856 – May 1857 ), and The Third Campaign ( August – December 1857 )

Founded on May 6, 1902, by August Belmont, Jr., the IRT's mission was to operate New York City's initial underground rapid transit system after Belmont's and John B. McDonald's Rapid Transit Construction Company was awarded the rights to build the railway line in 1900, outbidding Andrew Onderdonk.

The station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ).

The station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ).

The station was opened on August 25, 1984, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ).

The band released an album entitled Everything in Transit in August 2005.

In August 1988, the body of Hattersley's 29-year old daughter, Cathy Greeve, was found in the bathroom at an Edmonton Transit station.

In addition, on his travels to London and Paris he saw the potential for adapting their subway systems for New York City and partnered with August Belmont, Jr. to establish the Interborough Rapid Transit Company for the construction of the city's first subway.

Fred Albin Ossanna ( August 13, 1893 – September 1978 ) was a Minnesota lawyer who oversaw the dismantling of the Minneapolis-St. Paul streetcar system as head of Twin City Rapid Transit Company in the 1950s.

Raneri played three solo acoustic shows in August, and announced that Bayside would be going on tour with Saves The Day, I Am The Avalanche, and Transit from the middle of September to the middle of November.

Horace would eventually follow in his father's footsteps, becoming president of Twin City Rapid Transit until his death on August 22, 1931.