2008 Calendar
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2008 Historical Event(s)
January 17, 2008
– British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
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.
February 11, 2008
– Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
February 13, 2008
– Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
February 24, 2008
– Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
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.
May 13, 2008
– The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
July 10, 2008
– Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
August 18, 2008
– President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.
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