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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.
July 10 – The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place at Yankee Stadium. [33] 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 ...
Global financial crisis of 2008: The United States government announces a second bailout of American International Group; the total value of the new plan, roughly US$150 billion, represents the largest government support package extended to a private company in US history.(MarketWatch)
LDU Quito wins the Copa Libertadores 2008 defeating Fluminense in the final after a penalty shootout. (ESPNsoccernet) 31 years after its launch, the Voyager 2 spacecraft sends a detailed view of the shock wave that marks the thinning of the solar wind, the charged particles streaming from the sun, confirming that the heliosphere is actually egg-shaped, possibly due to a tilted magnetic field ...
Politics and elections George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union Address as President of the United States. (The Los Angeles Times) January 29, 2008 (2008-01-29) (Tuesday) edit history watch 20 civilians including 11 children die and 14 are wounded after a mine explodes targeting a school bus in Madhu, Sri Lanka. (Sunday Times) Iran's judiciary sentences 54 Baháʼí religion ...
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, his campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." He ran on the platform that called for the country to come together and create the positive change ...
2008 in the United States by state or territory (57 C) 2008 events in the United States by month (13 C) 2008 disestablishments in the United States (50 C, 37 P)
Weeks later, Lehman collapsed, helping to set off the 2008 financial crisis, and taking the taxi app with it. Arison and Russell are co-CEOs. They just missed hitting the start-up jackpot in 2008.