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.

He died in August 1945 after being diagnosed with lung cancer seven months earlier.

However, on August 21 he was stricken with a severe pleuritis relapse that developed rapidly in his left lung due to the actor's weakened condition.

In August 1969, Dirksen was found to have an asymptomatic peripherally-located mass in the upper lobe of the right lung, detected on chest x-rays.

Jennings anchored the broadcast until April 5, 2005, when he announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, to which Jennings would succumb on August 7, 2005.

In 2001, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and even though he had earned a five-year term ( he had himself agitated to legally enlarge the presidential term ) had to resign on August 7, 2001.

McGhee died in The Bronx, New York, on August 15, 1961 of lung cancer, at the age of forty-four, and he left his old guitar to Brownie's son before he died.

He battled prostate and lung cancer during the final years of his life, and died on August 14, 1999 at his Louisville home.

Jennings died of lung cancer on August 7, 2005, at his apartment in New York City, at age 67.

Otto Frank died of lung cancer on 19 August 1980 in Basel.

He died from complications related to lung and bone cancer on August 4, 2001.

He died on 24 August 2006 of lung cancer in Valencia, California.

Hilly Kristal died from complications from lung cancer on August 28, 2007.

In August 2005, Strahl announced that he had been diagnosed with inoperable / terminal lung cancer as the result of exposure to asbestos many years prior.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. died in Poughkeepsie, New York after a battle with lung cancer, on his 74th birthday, August 17, 1988.

Woolson died at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth on August 2, 1956, at what was thought to be the age of 109, of a " recurring lung congestion condition ".

He died of lung cancer in Cardiff on 19 August 2008, aged 56.

On August 8, 1992, after overdosing on drugs and being involved in a struggle with police at a Quebec City motel, Kordic died of lung failure due to heart malfunction.

He died of lung cancer August 3, 2004 in West Palm Beach.

Hayward had intended to return to the band in the event of recovery but he died on August 12, 2010 from pneumonia and complications from lung disease.

On July 2006, Suzuoki was diagnosed with lung cancer and undertook hospitalization and medical treatment, but on the morning of August 6, 2006, his health declined, and Suzuoki died at the age of 56.

On August 11, 2006, her agent Joel Dean announced that Pleshette was being treated for lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

" Toni " Morrison died of lung cancer on August 21, 1996.

Jim Robinson died on 30 August 2007 of lung cancer at the age of 73.

He died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York, on August 24, 1998.