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.

On August 15, 1217 Dominic dispatched seven of his followers to the great university center of Paris to establish a priory focused on study and preaching.

On August 1, 1982 lower-level air force personnel, led by Senior Private Grade-I Hezekiah Ochuka and backed by university students, attempted a coup d ' état to oust Moi.

In August 2006, Professor Schwartz expressed concern about the actions of Yerbury in a letter to university auditors.

* Peter Pohl, author and university lecturer in numerical analysis, joint recipient of the 1992 August Prize ( Augustpriset )

The Meeting of Uppsala in 1593 established Lutheran orthodoxy in Sweden, and Charles and the Council of state gave new privileges to the university on August 1 of the same year.

Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university received its Royal Charter in August 1961.

Erasmus had been the leading teacher of Greek there from August 1511 to January 1512, but not during Tyndale's time at the university.

When Nankai became a university in August 1919, Zhou was in the first class, but he was an activist full-time.

On August 27, 1958, Ateneo de Cagayan was inaugurated as a university and had officially become " Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan ".

The German army destroyed the university library on August 25, 1914, using petrol and incendiary pastilles.

On August 19, the plans for the new university were announced by prominent rabbi and Zionist Israel Goldstein, president of the Albert Einstein Foundation.

In August 2010, the university unveiled a $ 100 million expansion plan for Bronco Stadium.

On August 1, National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) Rector Barros Sierra led 50, 000 students in a peaceful protest against the repressive actions of the government and blatant violation of university autonomy.

On August 30, 2003, Reuters further quoted Hawass: " I'm sure that this mummy is not a female ", and " Dr Fletcher has broken the rules and therefore, at least until we have reviewed the situation with her university, she must be banned from working in Egypt.

In August 2011 his Scottish girlfriend gave birth to their first son called Riley and he expressed his desire for his new born son to get a university education.

In August 2009 Bolivia launched a Guaraní-language university at Kuruyuki in the southeastern province of Chuquisaca which will bear the name of the indigenous hero Apiaguaiki Tumpa.

The university had engaged the famous literary critic and thinker August Wilhelm Schlegel as a lecturer and Heine heard him talk about the Nibelungenlied and Romanticism.

The university came into existence on August 21, 1964 with operational jurisdiction over the entire state of Karnataka.

As a result of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and its damaging effects on New Orleans, most of the university was closed for the second time in its history — the first being during the Civil War.

In June 2004, the Privy Council granted Roehampton an independent university title, and it became Roehampton University from 1 August 2004.

It began computations for the U. S. Navy Bureau of Ships in May and was officially presented to the university on August 7, 1944.

Finding himself without the means to complete his theological studies under Johann August Wilhelm Neander and Friedrich August Tholuck in Berlin, he accepted a post at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to Johann Jakob Stähelin ( 1797 – 1875 ), later a professor at the university.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

At the end of the 18th century, the university became the largest and most famous one among the German states and made Jena the centre of idealist philosophy ( with professors like Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ) and of the early romanticism ( with poets like Novalis, the brothers August and Friedrich Schlegel, and Ludwig Tieck ).