Portal:Current events/August 2010/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Cultural 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Economic Automotive industry crisis Global financial crisis European sovereign debt crisis Greek economic crisis Worldwide recession Labour unrest in China Medical West African meningitis outbreak HIV/AIDS in Africa Political Political killings in the Philippines Scientific Expedition 24 Environmental Haiti earthquake response Gulf of Mexico oil spill Flooding in China Flooding in Pakistan Heatwave in the Northern Hemisphere North-east China oil spill 2010 Russian wildfires 2010 Bolivia forest fires

Recent deaths

August 1: Robert F. Boyle 1: Lolita Lebrón 2: James Hunter 3: Bobby Hebb 4: Jim Kennan 5: Godfrey Binaisa 5: Robert Baker Aitken 6: Fredrik Ericsson 7: Bruno Cremer 7: Tony Judt 8: Patricia Neal 8: Massamasso Tchangai 9: Ted Stevens 10: Antonio Pettigrew 10: Radomír Šimůnek Sr. 12: Isaac Bonewits 12: Guido de Marco 12: André Kim 13: Lance Cade 13: Janaki Venkataraman 14: Abbey Lincoln 15: Philip Markoff 16: Bobby Thomson 16: Dimitrios Ioannidis 17: Frank Kermode 17: Francesco Cossiga 18: Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma 19: Edwin Morgan 21: Gheorghe Apostol 22: Michel Montignac 22: Stjepan Bobek 23: Marcel Albert 24: Satoshi Kon 24: William B. Saxbe 27: Luna Vachon 27: Anton Geesink 28: Corinne Day 30: Alain Corneau 30: Francisco Varallo 31: Laurent Fignon 31: Mick Lally

Ongoing conflicts

Africa Chadian Civil War Darfur conflict Maghreb insurgency Somali Civil War Middle East Israeli–Arab conflict South Yemen insurgency Turkey–PKK conflict Asia Afghanistan war Balochistan conflict Jammu and Kashmir insurgency Nagaland ethnic conflict Naxalite–Maoist insurgency North-West Pakistan war Philippines insurgency South Thailand insurgency Americas Colombian conflict Mexican drug war Peru internal conflict

Elections
August 1: São Tomé and Príncipe, Parliament 4: Kenya, Constitutional referendum 4: Solomon Islands, General 9: Rwanda, President 21: Australia, Federal

Trials

Recently concluded Australia: Jayant Patel Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew France: Manuel Noriega Germany: Nadja Benaissa India: Ajmal Kasab Japan: Peter James Bethune Ongoing Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology, Air France Flight 4590, Jérôme Kerviel Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra United States: David Headley, Rod Blagojevich Upcoming Singapore: Alan Shadrake Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford

Holidays  and observances

August 2010 1: Imbolc (Southern Hemisphere) 1: Swiss National Day (Switzerland) 1: Lammas (England and Scotland) 1: International Friendship Day 1: Emancipation Day (Trinidad and Tobago) 2: Emancipation Day (various Caribbean countries) 2: Republic Day (Republic of Macedonia) 2: Civic Holiday (much of Canada) 3: Flag Day (Venezuela) 3: Independence Day (Niger) 4: Constitution Day (Cook Islands) 4: Matica Slovenská Day (Slovakia) 4: Revolution Day (Burkina Faso) 5: Victory Day (Croatia) 5: Independence Day (Burkina Faso) 6: Independence Day (Bolivia) 6: Independence Day (Jamaica) 7: Independence Day (Côte d'Ivoire) 7: Boyacá Battle Day (Colombia) 8: Father's Day (Taiwan) 8: Farmer's Day (Tanzania) 9: National Day (Singapore) 9: National Women's Day (South Africa) 9: National Peacekeepers' Day (Canada) 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 10: Independence Day (Ecuador) 11: Ramadan begins (Islam, ends on September 9) 11: Independence Day (Chad) 12: International Youth Day 12: Glorious Twelfth (United Kingdom) 12: Mother's Day (Thailand) 13: Independence Day (Central African Republic) 13: National Women's Day (Tunisia)) 13: International Lefthanders Day 14: Independence Day (Pakistan)) 15: Independence Day (India) 15: Liberation Day (Korea) 16: Children's Day (Paraguay) 16: Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France) 16: Qixi Festival (Chinese calendar) 17: Independence Day (Indonesia) 17: Independence Day (Gabon) 17: Prekmurje Union Day (Slovenia) 18: National Science Day (Thailand) 18: Vietnam War Veterans' Remembrance Day (Australia) 19: Afghan Independence Day 19: A Level results day (United Kingdom) 19: Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City) 19: National Aviation Day (United States) 19: World Humanitarian Day 20: Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary) 20: Father's Day (Nepal) 20: Revolution of the King and People (Morocco) 20: Feast of Asmá’ (Baháʼí Faith) 21: Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines) 21: Youth Day/King Mohammed VI's Birthday (Morocco) 23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 23: European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism 24: Raksha Bandhan (Hinduism) 24: Ghost Festival (Chinese calendar) 24: Independence Day (Ukraine) 25: Independence Day (Uruguay) 26: Heroes' Day (Namibia) 26: Women's Equality Day (United States) 27: Independence Day (Moldova) 27: Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas) 28: Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodoxy) 29: Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (Slovakia) 30: International Day of the Disappeared 30: Victory Day (Turkey) 30: Day of St Rose of Lima (Peru) 31: Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan) 31: Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago) 31: Hari Merdeka (Malaysia) 31: Limba noastră (Moldova) 31: Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)