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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
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 * 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
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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

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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

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August

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

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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
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 * Singapore: Alan Shadrake
 * Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
 * United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford
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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)

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