2008 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2008?
- January 17, 2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
- February 3, 2008 – The New York Giants defeated the heavily favored and previously undefeated 18-0 New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, 17-14, in what is known to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- February 7, 2008 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
- February 24, 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
- April 3, 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS’s YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
- May 2, 2008 – Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
- June 26, 2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.
- July 1, 2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
- September 12, 2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
- September 15, 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
- September 23, 2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
- September 28, 2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- October 15, 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow’s history based on a percentage drop.
- October 22, 2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
- November 4, 2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
- November 11, 2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
- December 6, 2008 – The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
- December 14, 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.
- December 27, 2008 – Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead
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