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.

* August 20 – International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium

The Consortium employed professional engineers to carry out a feasibility study on the reopening of both the Barnsley Canal and the Dearne and Dove Canal in August 2004, and the report, which was published in November 2006 confirmed that restoration was possible.

The additions, originally requested by Google ( Kat Momoi, Mark Davis, and Markus Scherer wrote the first draft for consideration by the Unicode Technical Committee in August 2007 ) and Apple Inc. ( whose Yasuo Kida and Peter Edberg joined the first official UTC proposal for 607 characters as coauthors in January 2009 ), went through a long series of commenting by members of the Unicode Consortium and national standardization bodies of various countries participating in ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2, especially the United States, Germany, Ireland ( led by Michael Everson ), and Japan ; various new characters ( especially symbols for maps and European signs ) were added during the consensus-building process.

* 2009: A Consortium of interested companies called the Wireless Power Consortium announce they are nearing completion for a new industry standard for low-power ( which is eventually published in August 2010 ) inductive charging.

On August 22, 2011 its concession was won by the Consortium Inframérica, formed by the Brazilian Engineering Group Engevix ( 50 %) and the Argentinean Group Corporación América ( 50 %), which already operates airports in Argentina ( 35 ), Armenia ( 1 ), Ecuador ( 2 ), Italy ( 1 ), Peru ( 5 ), and Uruguay ( 2 ).

After a complete feasibility study was conducted between August 1983 and August 1986 ( German-British Lahmeyer MacDonald Consortium was appointed for this task ), the project eventually began to realize.

In August 1964, COMSAT helped create and was majority owner in the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium ( INTELSAT ), an international satellite organization with the goal of global satellite coverage that today has 143 member countries and signatories.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

In August 1999, AMD released the Athlon ( K7 ) processor.

Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

It was released in August 1958, and remained the only edition available for more than fifty years.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

In August, Charles was arrested and released on bail pending further enquiries and, in September, he accepted a caution for possession of a Class A drug.

After a long history as proprietary software, it was released as free software on 6 August 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The album was released on August 31, 2012 thru Napalm Records in Europe and September 11, 2012 in the United States and Canada.

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982.

The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

In August 2009, The Antlers released their first concept album Hospice.

It was released in August 2011.

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

The technology was first introduced in software in January 2000 as an always-on feature of Microsoft Reader, which was released to the public in August 2000.

Longtime friend Billy Ray Cyrus, singer of Brother Clyde, released their self-titled debut album on August 10, 2010.

Nine of the 14 episodes from the first ( Rediffusion ) series were released on DVD in the UK and the US in August 2005.

The songs " Girl U Want " and " Through Being Cool " were released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band on August 19, 2008.

In August 2012, the band released a single called Don ’ t Roof Rack Me, Bro ( Seamus Unleashed ), dedicated to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's former pet dog Seamus.

The limited edition Blu-ray with a newly restored picture was released on August 31, 2010 in the United States, featuring two discs with audio commentary with writer / director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce Campbell.

On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).

EDIF 4 0 0 was released in late August 1996, mainly to add " Printed Circuit Board " extensions ( the original PCBLAYOUT view ) to EDIF 3 0 0.

Coppola's next project was Jack, which was released on August 9, 1996.