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2008 Calendar

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•  February 5, 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
•  February 7, 2008 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  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 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
•  May 12, 2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
•  May 13, 2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
•  September 13, 2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
•  November 26, 2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba
•  December 24, 2008 – Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.

•  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