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2008 Calendar

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•  February 7, 2008 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  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 28, 2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
•  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.
•  July 1, 2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
•  August 6, 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
•  September 12, 2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
•  September 14, 2008 – All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
•  September 28, 2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
•  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.

•  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