2008 Calendar
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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 11, 2008
– Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
March 17, 2008
– Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
April 3, 2008
– ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.
April 22, 2008
– The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
May 2, 2008
– Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
July 26, 2008
– 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
September 23, 2008
– Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
November 25, 2008
– Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
December 22, 2008
– An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 e9USgal of coal fly ash slurry.
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