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.

File: Vegreville pysanka August 2008. jpg | Easter egg monument in Vegreville, Alberta

* August 14 – Alberta Nelson, American actress ( d. 2006 )

* August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.

* August 26 – Charles Stewart, Premier of Alberta ( d. 1946 )

For example, in August 2003, the Métis Nation of Alberta adopted a formal " Definition of Métis " to determine who was eligible for membership of the Nation.

* Wikaskokiseyin ( Wee-kas-kookee-sey-yin, better known as Chief Sweet Grass, Chief of the Plains Cree, his mother was a captured Absaroke, as he grew up he was also called Apistchi-okimas-' Little Chief ', signed the Treaty 6 on 9 September 1876 at Fort Pitt, along with bands of Woodland Cree, Chipewyan, some Saulteaux, only a quarter of the participating groups were Plains Cree, while his successor as chief Wah-wee-oo-kah-tah-mah-hote (' Strike him on the back ') signed the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton on the 28th August 1876 together with the Willow Cree, died 11 January 1877 in a shootout accident on the Plains, probably at Saint-Paul-des-Cris, Alberta )

Much of the cinematography for the film was shot in Alberta in August 1991 by director of photography Jack Green.

Following the merger of BCTel with Telus of Alberta, GTE sold its interests in Québec Téléphone to Telus in August 2000, which renamed it Telus Québec on April 2, 2001.

* 14 – 18 August 1944, the South Alberta Regiment of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division came under fire six times by RAF Spitfires, resulting in over 57 casualties.

John Edward Brownlee ( August 27, 1883 – July 15, 1961 ) was the fifth Premier of Alberta, Canada, serving from 1925 until 1934.

Charles Stewart, PC ( August 26, 1868 – December 6, 1946 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921.

Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE ( born August 30, 1933 ) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992.

In August, Bulyea was appointed Alberta's first Lieutenant-Governor and later that month the Alberta Liberals selected Rutherford as their first leader.

Clark announced his impending resignation as party leader at the PC Party's bi-annual convention held in Edmonton, Alberta in August 2002.

The residents of Wabamun Lake, in Alberta, staged a blockade of CN tracks in August 2005, when they were unsatisfied with CN's response to a derailment catastrophe that spilled over 700, 000 Litres of tarry fuel oil and about 80, 000 L of carcinogenic pole treatment oil into the lake.

* August 24 – A Canadair Challenger 601 business jet arrives at London, England, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, setting a world non-syop distance record for a business jet of.

Birk Sproxton ( August 12, 1943-March 14, 2007 ) was a Canadian poet and novelist who lived in Red Deer, Alberta.

In August, 2011, the Alberta government initiated a provincial health study of the link between the higher rates of cancer and the oil sands.

Henry Norwest MM & Bar ( May 1, 1884, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta – August 18, 1918, at Fouquescourt, Somme, France ) was a distinguished Canadian sniper in World War I.

* August 26 — Charles Stewart, politician and 3rd Premier of Alberta ( died 1946 )

* August 22-Alberta general election, 1935: William Aberhart's Social Credit Party ( SoCreds ) wins a majority, defeating Richard G. Reid's United Farmers of Alberta

* August 23-Herbert Greenfield, politician and 4th Premier of Alberta ( b. 1869 )

* August 5 – Alberta election: Ernest Manning's Social Credit Party wins a fifth consecutive majority

* August 13-Herbert Greenfield becomes premier of Alberta, replacing Charles Stewart

Lynch-Staunton died on August 17, 2012, following a heart attack while he was at a family reunion in Pincher Creek, Alberta ; he was 82 years old.