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2008 ( MMVIII) 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:
November 1: U.S. President George W. Bush opines on the upcoming U.S. election. November 4 – 2008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States and U.S. Senator Joe Biden is elected the 47th vice president.
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
August 12: English Wikipedia was expected to hit 2.5 mln articles in August 2008. This had happened. ( 6,829,449 articles today). Reportedly, in 2001 Larry Sanger predicted that "with a little luck, Wikipedia would have 80,000 articles by 2008" [7] - a 30x off-mark.
Calendar. A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system.
The 2008 Olympics were watched by 3.5 billion people worldwide, and featured the longest distance for an Olympic Torch relay. [4] [5] The 2008 Games also set numerous world and Olympic records, and were the most expensive Summer Olympics of all time, and the second most expensive overall, after the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
15 Mordad 1403. A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 August 2024" is ten days after "15 August 2024". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time ...
5 January: Georgia, president, NATO membership referendum and election date referendum. 7 January: Marshall Islands, President (by the parliament) 9 January: Kosovo, President (by the parliament) 12 January: Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Parliament and referendum. 15 January: Barbados, Parliament. 17–19 January: Tokelau, Parliament.