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He would later be awarded a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Dark Knight, released in July 2008. January 25 – In Las Vegas, the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino catches fire. January 27 – The 2008 NHL All-Star Game occurs in Atlanta. January 28 – President George W. Bush delivers his final State of the ...
May 1-2, 2008 tornado outbreak: Tornadoes affecting the south-central United States kill at least seven in Arkansas. Over 10,000 people gather in Seoul, South Korea, to protest against the importation of U.S. beef, which is alleged to have a danger of mad cow disease. (YouTube Video) Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008
2008 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines. At least two people die in a landslide in Cotabato City in Mindanao as Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines. UAE wins the first ever Arab Cup of Ice Hockey by defeating Kuwait 4-1. (National Team Scores) Thai Political Crisis
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.
Law and crime Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes. (The New York Times) The Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is ordered to go to jail for violating the terms of his bond for an ongoing perjury trial. (NPR) Politics and elections The leaders of the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état promise to hold elections as soon as possible. (Xinhua ...
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 ...
Tropical Storm Ike (2008) forms east of the Leeward Islands. ( Miami Herald ) [ permanent dead link ] Hurricane Gustav weakens to a tropical storm in central Louisiana after being responsible for 7 deaths in the United States and more than 90 in the Caribbean .
Pakistani and United States forces exchange fire on the Afghan-Pakistan border. (The New York Times)Senior members of the United States Congress agree on a legislative deal to bail out the U.S. financial system from lingering effects of the subprime mortgage crisis.