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.

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

On August 2, 2011, Barrymore directed the music video for the song " Our Deal ", for the band Best Coast, which features Chloë Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove, Tyler Posey, Donald Glover, Shailene Woodley and Alia Shawkat.

On August 21, 2008, the band announced an extended break from touring due to the health-related issues of Flouride and Peligro.

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 band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

In 1997, Kid Rock added drummer / vocalist Stefanie Eulinberg to his band, joining Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden and Joe C .. On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released Devil Without a Cause behind the single " Welcome 2 The Party.

Murat Ses left the band in August 1972.

In August 2000 he won the first prize at the contest for bands of the 25th " Plinn festival " in Bourbriac ( Brittany ) with the band " Le Bûcheron Mélomane et les Nains de la Forêt " ( The Music-loving Lumberjack and the Dwarfs of the Forest ).

The band became a top act across Canada in the following months, and Men At Work started receiving top 40 US airplay by August.

The band played a few shows in August 2011 on the east and west coast.

" The band played its first gig at CBGB on August 16, 1974, on the same bill as another new act, Angel and the Snake, soon to be renamed Blondie.

In August, Ork put out an EP recorded by Hell with his new band that included the first released version of " Blank Generation ".

The term was first used in print in the Austin American Statesman in an article about the band titled " Unique Elevators shine with psychedelic rock ", dated 10 February 1966, and theirs was the first album to use the term as part of its title, in The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, released in August that year.

Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.

The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group that included Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.

In August 1990, founding member Hugh Cornwell left the band to pursue a solo career.

Current band photo, at the Cropredy Festival, 13 August 2009 Photo: Brian Marks

In August 2007, Brian May, lead guitarist with the band Queen, handed in his PhD thesis Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud 36 years after starting it and then abandoning it in favour of a musical career.

* August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.

* August 17 – Drake Levin, guitarist for the band Paul Revere & The Raiders.