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.

At home against Middlesbrough on 22 August 2004, Bergkamp acted as captain for the injured Vieira in a match where Arsenal came back from 1 – 3 down to win 5 – 3 and equal Nottingham Forest's record of 42 league matches undefeated.

Osgood would remain on the job until June 1992, paired with Victoria Corderi ( April 1990 – August 1991 ), Giselle Fernández ( to February 1992 ), and Meredith Vieira ( for the remainder of Osgood's term ).

On 19 August, the UN Headquarters in Baghdad was destroyed in the Canal Hotel Bombing, killing at least 22 people, among them Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General.

After press speculation linking him to various clubs, including a move back to Arsenal, on 2 August 2006, Vieira officially signed a four-year deal for Internazionale in a deal to be worth € 9. 5 million, less than half of the € 20 million fee Juventus had paid just 12 months prior.

* August 19: Canal Hotel bombing: Truck bomb at the United Nations headquarters kills the top UN envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 others.

The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people, including the United Nations ' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100.

Sérgio Vieira de Mello ( 15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003 ) was a Brazilian United Nations employee who worked for the UN for more than 34 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the humanitarian and political programs of the UN.

As a background to this landmark resolution, the family of Sérgio Vieira de Mello resolved to work towards having the 19th of August recognized as a befitting tribute to all humanitarian personnel.

Early April 2008 the Board of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Foundation prepared a draft Resolution to be sponsored and adopted by the General Assembly designating 19 August as World Humanitarian Day.

*" Unsung Heroes of the Battlefields " by Laurent Vieira de Mello, president of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation-The Washington Post, 19 August 2009

Fiona Watson ( 1968-19 August 2003 ) was a Scottish political affairs officer working in Vieira de Mello's office who was killed along with other members of UN staff in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq, on the afternoon of 19 August 2003.

* West 57th ( Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia ) ( August 13, 1985-September 9, 1989 )

In August 2006, Vieira told Time that she hasn't watched The View since she left the show, except the episode when Star Jones announced she was leaving.

" On August 29, 2006, Vieira told the New York Post that she didn't mean that The View was a joke.

* Bombing of the U. N. headquarters in Baghdad in August 2003 which killed the top U. N. representative in Iraq, 55-year-old Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian, who was also the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Vieira then dismissed Kabi and appointed Carlos Correia as Prime Minister on August 5.

On 10 August 2006, Ibrahimović completed a € 24. 8 million move to Internazionale, signing a four-year-deal, this coming only a few days after 30-year-old defensive midfielder Patrick Vieira had completed his own transfer from Juve to nerazzurri.

Later, after PAIGC withdrew from the three-party alliance to protest Kabi's actions, Vieira dissolved the National People's Assembly and appointed Carlos Correia to replace Kabi as Prime Minister on 5 August 2008.

Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, GCC, GCIH, ComA ( b. Lagoa, 16 August 1939 ) was the last Governor of Macau.

João Manuel Vieira Pinto ( born 19 August 1971 ) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mostly as a forward.

It concerns Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Special Representative in Iraq who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad along with Jean-Sélim Kanaan, Nadia Younes, Fiona Watson, and other members of his staff, on the afternoon of August 19, 2003.

Ialá ran in the 1994 presidential election and received 21, 88 % in the first round on July 3 ; although the opposition united behind him in the second round, held on August 7, he lost to President João Bernardo Vieira, receiving 47, 98 %.