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2008 Historical Event(s)
February 7, 2008
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
February 17, 2008
– Kosovo declares independence.
May 2, 2008
– Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
May 10, 2008
– War in Darfur: The Justice and Equality Movement and Sudanese government forces clash in Omdurman and Khartoum, the first time the fighting takes place in the nation’s capital.
May 22, 2008
– The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
August 18, 2008
– President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.
September 6, 2008
– Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
September 10, 2008
– The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
October 3, 2008
– The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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.
Who Were Born On 2008?
April 16, 2008
– Princess Eléonore of Belgium
September 17, 2008
– Mia Talerico, American child actress
September 29, 2008
– Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family