2008 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2008?
- January 21, 2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%.
- February 5, 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
- February 7, 2008 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 24, 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
- March 14, 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
- March 19, 2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
- March 24, 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
- April 28, 2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
- May 12, 2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
- June 9, 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.
- August 13, 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
- August 20, 2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive.
- September 6, 2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
- September 7, 2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- September 15, 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
- September 24, 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1389 ft, at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground-level.
- September 25, 2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
- September 29, 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
- November 25, 2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
- December 27, 2008 – Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead
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