2008


2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade. 2008 was designated as: International Year of ...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images. A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 15, 2008 in New York City. In afternoon trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 500 ...

On November 4, 2008, after a campaign that lasted nearly two years, Americans elected Illinois senator Barack Obama their 44th president. The result was historic, as Obama, a first-term U.S. senator, became, when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, the country's first African American president. He also was the first sitting U.S. senator to win election to the presidency since John F ...

Historical Events in 2008. Jan 1 A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. Jan 1 Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries. Jan 3 74th Orange Bowl: #8 Kansas beats #5 Virginia Tech, 24-21.

July 10 - The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place at Yankee Stadium. The home American League wins 4-3 in 15 innings, giving home field advantage in the 2008 World Series to the AL champion, which eventually came to be the Tampa Bay Rays. July 18 - The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, is released. It was the ...

Historical Events for the Year 2008. 1st January » Cyprus and Malta join the Eurozone.; 17th January » British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete Write-off known as hull loss of a Boeing 777. 5th February » A 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak known as major tornado outbreak across the Southern United ...

What Happened in 2008 Major News Events, Popular Culture, History Prices Switzerland - Large Hadron Collider . CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated during October.The LHC was built in Switzerland with the help of thousands of engineers and scientists between 1998 and 2008. The world's largest particle accelerator has a circumference of 17 miles and it is used by ...

Historical Events in 2008. Jan 21 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%. Feb 24 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years.

3rd Quarter. Disable moonphases. Some holidays and dates are color-coded: Red -Federal Holidays and Sundays. Gray -Typical Non-working Days. Black-Other Days. Local holidays are not listed. The year 2008 is a leap year, with 366 days in total. Calendar type: Gregorian calendar.

2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade. 2008 was the Chinese Year of Earth Rat based on the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle. ...

Lehman Brothers Collapses. On Sept. 6, 2008, with the financial markets down nearly 20% from the Oct. 2007 peaks, the government announced its takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This was a ...

2008 Financial Crisis. The 2008 financial crisis was the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of 1929. 1 It occurred despite the efforts of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The crisis led to the Great Recession, where housing prices dropped more than the price plunge during the Great Depression.

Feature Film, Released between 2008-01-01 and 2008-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) 1. The Dark Knight (2008) When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. 2.

Wladyslaw Slesicki. Director: Family of Man. Wladyslaw Slesicki was born on 5 January 1927 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was a director and writer, known for Family of Man (1966), Before Leaves Fall (1964) and The Rafts Sail On (1962). He died on 9 December 2008 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

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