Basketball contests at the 2008 Olympic Games were held from August 9, 2008 to August 24, 2008.

The second series ended on 12 August 2014.

Google Video was shut down and replaced by Google Videos on August 20, 2012.

August 14 West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.

It was hoisted for the last time on 17 August 1968.

A single stage Soviet Sloika was tested on August 12, 1953.

He was elected president unopposed by members of parliament (acting as an electoral college) on 19 August 2005 and took office on 26 August 2005.

He ruled Zanzibar from March 5, 1893 to August 25, 1896.

Death Shihabi died at his farm in Portugal on 25 August 2010.

They toured the Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as US in August 1968.

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist.

In August 2007 the tourism office was upgraded to a Provincial Tourism Department.

You can only rarely be in the right place to find sharks into August.

On 17 August 2013, Johnstone was loaned to Yeovil Town for a period of three months.

On 29 August 2008, he signed a new three year deal with the Saints.

Now this was into August now, and normally sharks peak at June, July.

Then he held the post of the minister of defense from August 1997 until August 2005 in the government of Mohammad Khatami.

In August 1958, the family travelled to Australia on the same ship as Australian musician Red Symons.

The latter then travelled to Istanbul, where his investiture took place on 25 August in the presence of the Ottoman Sultan.

The season began on 9 August 2013 and the final matchday was on 10 May 2014.

The stadium was opened on 22 August 1998 and replaced Elm Park as Reading F.C.

I was in China in August, I said, You should have 50,000 peace keepers in Iraq.

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 August 12, 1955) was an American chemist.

It was adopted as the national flag on 17 August 1945, when independence was declared and has been in use since then.

The number of countries recognising the NTC has increased rapidly since its fighters' entry into Tripoli on 21 August.

Carl D. Anderson discovered the positron on August 2, 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936.

Egypt competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 to 24 August 2008.

Egypt, represented by the Egyptian Olympic Committee, competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece from 13 to 29 August 2004.

A new bureau was elected in the Chamber of Deputies on 22 and 28 July and in the Senate on 10 August.

After their promotional activities in Japan ended, the band returned to Korea to release their second Korean album Colorful Sensibility on August 27, 2008.

On 15 August, Nadal announced his withdrawal from the US Open in New York, as he felt he still was not healthy enough to compete.

Principal photography began on August 26, 2013, in Pittsburgh, United States, with a few additional days in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before concluding on October 16, 2013.

The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 20, 1971, by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo.

President Ould Abdel Aziz is a high ranking military officer, who came to power in August 2008 following a coup that toppled then President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

And by the way, a reporter called me the other day and he said he looked on Wikipedia and he said he saw my birthday was August 22nd 1949, and for some odd reason in Wikipedia, they had my death date too.

And that is, on August 6th, 1945, a B 29 bomber called the Enola Gay flew over Japan and, using a Norden bombsight, dropped a very large thermonuclear device on the city of Hiroshima.

Provision is made for mission subsistence allowance for 12 observers for 123 days, that is, from 15 August to 15 December 1993, at the rate specified in paragraph 3 above.

Frank aspired to become a journalist, writing in her diary on Wednesday, 5 April 1944 She continued writing regularly until her last entry of 1 August 1944.

History When the LEP collider started operation in August 1989 it accelerated the electrons and positrons to a total energy of 45 GeV each to enable production of the Z boson, which has a mass of 91 GeV.

The case of Syria is a good example of this. There is no doubt that chemical weapons were used to kill hundreds of civilians in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21.

In the United States, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25 to a zone between zero and 0.25 , and has reduced the discount rate 12 times (by a total of 550 basis points since June 2006), to 0.75 .

There simply was not enough hard evidence of Syrian President Bashar al Assad s use of chemical weapons, at least before the Ghouta massacre in August, to pressure Russia either in the United Nations Security Council or the court of global opinion to reconsider its reflex support of the regime.

The explanation, I believe, lies largely in the August 11 devaluation of the renminbi, after a decade of appreciation. By moving away from the renminbi peg to the US dollar an undoubtedly risky move China demonstrated its willingness to allow market forces to establish the exchange rate in the long term.

An updated version, Windows Live Movie Maker 2011, was released on August 17, 2010, adding webcam capture, support for high definition video, the ability to upload videos directly to SkyDrive and Facebook, and the ability to add media files stored on network shares to projects.

With these words, posted online, Gillian Bennett, an 85 year old New Zealander living in Canada, began her explanation of her decision to end her life. Bennett had known for three years that she was suffering from dementia.