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.

Mary Catherine Williams and Elias Boudinot, Sr. were married on August 8, 1729.

On 28 August, Gibbs and Williams were suspended from international cricket for six months.

On August 17, 1835 he married Jane Williams Bourne, daughter of Abner Bourne and Abagail Williams.

Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague Kenneth Williams in August 1964.

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

Theodore Samuel " Ted " Williams ( August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 ) was an American professional baseball player and manager.

Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

In late August, Williams was hitting. 402.

On August 18, 1945, following the atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Williams was sent to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Williams, after returning from the Korean War in August, practiced with the Red Sox for ten days before playing in his first game back, garnering a large ovation from the crowd and hitting a home run in the eighth inning.

On August 25, Williams passed Johnny Mize for sixth place, and on September 3, Williams passed Joe DiMaggio for fifth all-time in career home runs with his 362nd career home run.

On August 7,, after Williams was booed for dropping a fly ball from Mickey Mantle, Williams spat at one of the fans that was taunting him on the top of the dugout.

Marshall died on August 9, 1969, and Edward Bennett Williams, a minority stockholder who was a Washington resident and one of America's most esteemed attorneys, was chosen to run the franchise while the majority stockholder, Jack Kent Cooke, lived in Los Angeles and ran his basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers.

* August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player ( d. 2002 )

* August 21 – Clarence Williams III, American actor

* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

* August 9 – Doug Williams, American football quarterback

* August 14 – Dave Williams, American singer ( b. 1972 )

* August – William Williams, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( b. 1731 )

* August 26 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College ( d. 1755 )

In late August 2008, Williams ' friend Callum Blue commented that he was still working on the album.