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<li id="toc-Nobel_Prizes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nobel_Prizes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Nobel Prizes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nobel_Prizes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Major_religious_holidays" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Major_religious_holidays"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Major religious holidays </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Major_religious_holidays-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_websites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_websites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Other websites </div> </a> <ul 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Available in 215 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-215" aria-hidden="true" > 215 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%E1%8A%A5.%E1%8A%A4.%E1%8A%A0." title="2008 እ.ኤ.አ. – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="2008 እ.ኤ.አ." data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Anarâškielâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Аԥсшәа</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target">ܐܪܡܝܐ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Arpetan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="2008 сон – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="2008 сон" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target">Авар</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aymar aru</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B0%DB%B8_(%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C)" title="۲۰۰۸ (میلادی) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="۲۰۰۸ (میلادی)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%AE" title="২০০৮ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="২০০৮" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Banjar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_n%C3%AE" title="2008 nî – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="2008 nî" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Banyumasan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B9%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="2008 йыл – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="2008 йыл" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BC%A2%E0%BC%A0%E0%BC%A0%E0%BC%A8%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="༢༠༠༨ལོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="༢༠༠༨ལོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008." title="2008. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="2008." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Chavacano de Zamboanga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">الدارجة</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ދިވެހިބަސް</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dz mw-list-item"><a href="https://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BC%A2%E0%BC%A0%E0%BC%A0%E0%BC%A8" title="༢༠༠༨ – Dzongkha" lang="dz" hreflang="dz" data-title="༢༠༠༨" data-language-autonym="ཇོང་ཁ" data-language-local-name="Dzongkha" class="interlanguage-link-target">ཇོང་ཁ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Emiliàn e rumagnòl</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-en mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – English" lang="en" hreflang="en" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="English" data-language-local-name="English" class="interlanguage-link-target">English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B8%D0%B5" title="2008 ие – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="2008 ие" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Эрзянь</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B0%DB%B8" title="۲۰۰۸ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="۲۰۰۸" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Furlan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagauz</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D1%88%D1%83" title="2008 шу – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="2008 шу" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target">ГӀалгӀай</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4" title="2008年 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="2008年" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target">贛語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target">گیلکی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008-ngi%C3%A8n" title="2008-ngièn – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="2008-ngièn" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%EB%85%84" title="2008년 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="2008년" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AE" title="२००८ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="२००८" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hornjoserbsce</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008." title="2008. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="2008." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%AE" title="মারি ২০০৮ – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="মারি ২০০৮" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target">বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008-%C3%A6%D0%BC_%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="2008-æм аз – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="2008-æм аз" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B3%A8%E0%B3%A6%E0%B3%A6%E0%B3%AE" title="೨೦೦೮ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="೨೦೦೮" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="2008 джыл – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="2008 джыл" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Къарачай-малкъар</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kaszëbsczi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="2008 жыл – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="2008 жыл" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008-%D3%A7%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="2008-ӧд во – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="2008-ӧд во" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Коми</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kotava</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_(almanak_gregoryen)" title="2008 (almanak gregoryen) – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="2008 (almanak gregoryen)" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kreyòl ayisyen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kriyòl gwiyannen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B8" title="2008 и – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="2008 и" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кырык мары</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%84.%E0%BA%AA._2008" title="ຄ.ສ. 2008 – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ຄ.ສ. 2008" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008._gads" title="2008. gads – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="2008. gads" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B9%D0%B8%D1%81" title="2008 йис – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="2008 йис" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Лезги</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_m." title="2008 m. – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="2008 m." data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ligure</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Livvinkarjala</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008moi" title="2008moi – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="2008moi" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target">La .lojban.</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AE" title="२००८ – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="२००८" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target">Māori</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8._%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AE" title="इ.स. २००८ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स. २००८" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B0%DB%B8" title="۲۰۰۸ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="۲۰۰۸" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_ni%C3%A8ng" title="2008 nièng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="2008 nièng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target">Мокшень</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="2008 он – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="2008 он" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%81%82%E1%81%80%E1%81%80%E1%81%88" title="၂၀၀၈ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="၂၀၀၈" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nāhuatl</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nedersaksies</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AE" title="सन् २००८ – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="सन् २००८" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4" title="2008年 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="2008年" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Napulitano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D1%88%D0%BE" title="2008 шо – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="2008 шо" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nouormand</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ii mw-list-item"><a href="https://ii.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4" title="2008年 – Sichuan Yi" lang="ii" hreflang="ii" data-title="2008年" data-language-autonym="ꆇꉙ" data-language-local-name="Sichuan Yi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꆇꉙ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Олык марий</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%AE" title="୨୦୦୮ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="୨୦୦୮" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target">ଓଡ଼ିଆ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AE" title="२००८ – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="२००८" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target">पालि</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Pangasinan" data-language-local-name="Pangasinan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Pangasinan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%86%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%93%E1%9E%B6%E1%9F%86_%E1%9F%A2%E1%9F%A0%E1%9F%A0%E1%9F%A8" title="ឆ្នាំ ២០០៨ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ឆ្នាំ ២០០៨" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tok Pisin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qırımtatarca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ksh mw-list-item"><a href="https://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joohr_2008" title="Joohr 2008 – Colognian" lang="ksh" hreflang="ksh" data-title="Joohr 2008" data-language-autonym="Ripoarisch" data-language-local-name="Colognian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ripoarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русиньскый</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="2008 год – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="2008 год" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seeltersk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sesotho sa Leboa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%D8%B9" title="2008ع – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="2008ع" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="2008" 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hreflang="tt" data-title="2008 ел" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target">ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9E.%E0%B8%A8._2551" title="พ.ศ. 2551 – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="พ.ศ. 2551" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8_2008" title="Соли 2008 – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Соли 2008" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_%D0%B0%D1%80" title="2008 ар – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="2008 ар" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Удмурт</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bug mw-list-item"><a href="https://bug.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Buginese" lang="bug" hreflang="bug" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Basa Ugi" data-language-local-name="Buginese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Ugi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%D8%A1" title="2008ء – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="2008ء" 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Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4" title="2008年 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="2008年" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008 – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="2008" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target">ייִדיש</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9%B4" title="2008年 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="2008年" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" 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<a href="/wiki/Calendar_era" title="Calendar era">calendars</a></caption><tbody><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a></td><td>2008 MMVIII</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita" title="Ab urbe condita">Ab urbe condita</a></td><td>2761</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_calendar" title="Armenian calendar">Armenian calendar</a></td><td>1457 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_calendar" title="Assyrian calendar">Assyrian calendar</a></td><td>6758</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar" title="Bahá'í calendar">Bahá'í calendar</a></td><td>164–165</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar" title="Balinese saka calendar">Balinese saka calendar</a></td><td>1929–1930</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bengali_calendar" title="Bengali calendar">Bengali calendar</a></td><td>1415</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Berber_calendar" title="Berber calendar">Berber calendar</a></td><td>2958</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Regnal_years_of_English_monarchs" title="Regnal years of English monarchs">British Regnal year</a></td><td>56 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a> – 57 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Buddhist calendar</a></td><td>2552</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Burmese_calendar" title="Burmese calendar">Burmese calendar</a></td><td>1370</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a></td><td>7516–7517</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_sexagenary_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese sexagenary cycle">丁亥</a>年 (Fire <a href="/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)" title="Pig (zodiac)">Pig</a>) 4704 or 4644     — to — 戊子年 (Earth <a href="/wiki/Rat_(zodiac)" title="Rat (zodiac)">Rat</a>) 4705 or 4645</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Coptic_calendar" title="Coptic calendar">Coptic calendar</a></td><td>1724–1725</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Discordian_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Discordian calendar">Discordian calendar</a></td><td>3174</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar" title="Ethiopian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a></td><td>2000–2001</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_calendar" title="Hebrew calendar">Hebrew calendar</a></td><td>5768–5769</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hindu_calendar" title="Hindu calendar">Hindu calendars</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Vikram_Samvat" title="Vikram Samvat">Vikram Samvat</a></td><td>2064–2065</td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Indian_national_calendar" title="Indian national calendar">Shaka Samvat</a></td><td>1929–1930</td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></td><td>5108–5109</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Holocene_calendar" title="Holocene calendar">Holocene calendar</a></td><td>12008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Igbo_calendar" title="Igbo calendar">Igbo calendar</a></td><td>1008–1009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Iranian_calendars" title="Iranian calendars">Iranian calendar</a></td><td>1386–1387</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic calendar</a></td><td>1428–1430</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_calendar" title="Japanese calendar">Japanese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Heisei_period" title="Heisei period">Heisei</a> 20 (平成２０年)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Javanese_calendar" title="Javanese calendar">Javanese calendar</a></td><td>1940–1941</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Korean_calendar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North Korean calendar (not yet started)">Juche calendar</a></td><td>97</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a></td><td>Gregorian minus 13 days</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Korean_calendar" title="Korean calendar">Korean calendar</a></td><td>4341</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minguo_calendar" title="Minguo calendar">Minguo calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">ROC</a> 97 民國97年</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Nanakshahi_calendar" title="Nanakshahi calendar">Nanakshahi calendar</a></td><td>540</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar" title="Thai solar calendar">Thai solar calendar</a></td><td>2551</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_calendar" title="Tibetan calendar">Tibetan calendar</a></td><td>阴火猪年 (female Fire-<a href="/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)" title="Pig (zodiac)">Pig</a>) 2134 or 1753 or 981     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-<a href="/wiki/Rat_(zodiac)" title="Rat (zodiac)">Rat</a>) 2135 or 1754 or 982</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Unix_time" title="Unix time">Unix time</a></td><td>1199145600 – 1230767999</td></tr></tbody></table> 2008 (<a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">MMVIII</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/Leap_year_starting_on_Tuesday" title="Leap year starting on Tuesday">leap year starting on Tuesday</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a>, the 2008th year of the <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">Common Era</a> (CE) and <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">Anno Domini</a> (AD) designations, the 8th year of the <a href="/wiki/3rd_millennium" title="3rd millennium">3rd millennium</a>, the 8th year of the <a href="/wiki/21st_century" title="21st century">21st century</a>, and the 9th year of the <a href="/wiki/2000s_(decade)" title="2000s (decade)">2000s</a> decade. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Change section: Events" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section's source code: Events">change source</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January">January</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Change section: January" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section's source code: January">change source</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury.jpg/220px-MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury.jpg/330px-MESSENGER_first_photo_of_unseen_side_of_mercury.jpg 1.5x, 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title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, killing over 25 people during a funeral over the deaths from the preceding attack.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2" title="January 2">January 2</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Price_of_petroleum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Price of petroleum (not yet started)">price of petroleum</a> hits <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">$</a>100 per barrel for the first time.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – A car bomb detonates, killing at least 4 and injuring 68, in <a href="/wiki/Diyarbak%C4%B1r" title="Diyarbakır">Diyarbakır</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>. Police blame <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurdistan_Workers_Party&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kurdistan Workers Party (not yet started)">Kurdish rebels</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a> – An attempted assassination of <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldivian</a> president <a href="/wiki/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom" title="Maumoon Abdul Gayoom">Maumoon Abdul Gayoom</a> is thwarted after a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boy_Scout&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boy Scout (not yet started)">Boy Scout</a> grabs the attacker's knife. The Boy Scout is injured, but after a scuffle police arrest the attacker.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_12" title="January 12">January 12</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Macedonia">Macedonian</a> Army <a href="/wiki/Mil_Mi-17" title="Mil Mi-17">Mil Mi-17</a> helicopter <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Macedonian_Armed_Forces_Mil_Mi-17_crash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Macedonian Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 crash (not yet started)">crashes</a> in thick fog southeast of <a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a>, killing all 11 military personnel on board.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">January 14</a> – At 19:04:39 <a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>, the <a href="/wiki/MESSENGER" title="MESSENGER">MESSENGER</a> <a href="/wiki/Space_probe" title="Space probe">space probe</a> is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Federal_Court_of_Australia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Court of Australia (not yet started)">Federal Court of Australia</a> orders a Japanese whaling company to stop research whaling within their <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Exclusive Economic Zone">Exclusive Economic Zone</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_21" title="January 21">January 21</a> – Stock markets around the world <a href="/w/index.php?title=January_2008_stock_market_volatility&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="January 2008 stock market volatility (not yet started)">plunge amid growing fears</a> of a U.S. <a href="/wiki/Recession" title="Recession">recession</a>, fueled by the 2007 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Subprime_mortgage_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Subprime mortgage crisis (not yet started)">subprime mortgage crisis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_22" title="January 22">January 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> stages the largest naval exercise since the fall of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay" title="Bay of Biscay">Bay of Biscay</a>. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov (not yet started)">Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov</a>, along with 11 support vessels and 47 long-range bomber aircraft, practises strike tactics off the coast of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, and test-launches nuclear-capable missiles in foreign waters.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Polish_Air_Force&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polish Air Force (not yet started)">Polish Air Force</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=EADS_CASA_C-295&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="EADS CASA C-295 (not yet started)">EADS CASA C-295</a> crashes on approach to the 12th Air Base near <a href="/w/index.php?title=Miros%C5%82awiec&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mirosławiec (not yet started)">Mirosławiec</a>. All 20 personnel on board die.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a> – Thousands of Palestinians cross into <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, as the border wall with Gaza in Rafah is blown up by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Breach_of_the_Gaza-Egypt_border_(2008)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Breach of the Gaza-Egypt border (2008) (not yet started)">militants</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_24" title="January 24">January 24</a> – A peace deal ends the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kivu_war&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kivu war (not yet started)">Kivu war</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>'s worst snowstorm since <a href="/wiki/1954" title="1954">1954</a> kills 133, delays traffic, and causes massive power outages in central and southern parts of the country.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_29" title="January 29">January 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>'s judiciary sentences to prison 54 <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith" title="Bahá'í Faith">Bahá'í Faith</a> followers for 'anti-regime propaganda'.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=3" title="Change section: February" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section's source code: February">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" 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attack">suicide bomber</a> kills 1 and wounds 13 in a <a href="/wiki/Dimona" title="Dimona">Dimona</a>, Israel shopping center.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a> – U.S. stock market indices plunge more than 3% after a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Non-Manufacturing_ISM_Report_on_Business&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business (not yet started)">report</a> shows signs of economic recession in the service sector. The <a href="/wiki/S%26P_500" title="S&P 500">S&P 500</a> fall 3.2%, The <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> 370 points.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a>–<a href="/wiki/February_6" title="February 6">6</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Super_Tuesday_tornado_outbreak&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak (not yet started)">A tornado outbreak</a>, the deadliest in 23 years, kills 58 in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/STS-122" title="STS-122">STS-122</a>: <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis">Space Shuttle Atlantis</a> launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_10" title="February 10">February 10</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Namdaemun_fire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Namdaemun fire (not yet started)">2008 Namdaemun fire</a> severely damages <a href="/w/index.php?title=Namdaemun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Namdaemun (not yet started)">Namdaemun</a>, the first <a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Treasures_of_South_Korea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Treasures of South Korea (not yet started)">National Treasure of South Korea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/President_of_East_Timor" title="President of East Timor">President of East Timor</a> <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ramos-Horta" title="José Ramos-Horta">José Ramos-Horta</a> is seriously wounded in an attack on his home by rebel soldiers. Rebel leader <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfredo_Reinado&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfredo Reinado (not yet started)">Alfredo Reinado</a> is killed by Ramos-Horta's security guards during the attack.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Petr%C3%B3leos_de_Venezuela_S.A.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (not yet started)">PDVSA</a>, a state oil company in <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, suspends sales of <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">crude oil</a> to <a href="/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil">ExxonMobil</a>, in response to a legal challenge by them.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bridgestone" title="Bridgestone">Bridgestone</a>, under investigation for an alleged price-fixing cartel, uncovers improper payments of at least 150 million <a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese yen">Japanese yen</a> to foreign governments and withdraws from the marine hose business.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a> of <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> delivers a formal apology to the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stolen_Generations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stolen Generations (not yet started)">Stolen Generations</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_17" title="February 17">February 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> formally <a href="/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence" title="2008 Kosovo declaration of independence">declares independence</a> from <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>, with support from some countries but opposition from others.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Government">British government</a> introduces emergency legislation temporarily to <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalize</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Rock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern Rock (not yet started)">Northern Rock</a>, the 5th largest <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mortgage_bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mortgage bank (not yet started)">mortgage bank</a> in the UK, due to the bank's financial crisis.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistani_general_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pakistani general election, 2008 (not yet started)">A general election</a> is held in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, delayed from <a href="/wiki/January_8" title="January 8">January 8</a> due to riots in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Benazir_Bhutto" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassination of Benazir Bhutto">assassination of Benazir Bhutto</a>. Opposition parties, including Bhutto's, take more than half of the seats, while <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf" title="Pervez Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</a>'s party suffers a huge defeat.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> announces his resignation as President of Cuba, effective February 24.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a> – The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> destroys a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spy_satellite&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spy satellite (not yet started)">spy satellite</a> containing toxic fuel, by shooting it down with a <a href="/wiki/Missile" title="Missile">missile</a> launched from the <a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Lake_Erie_(CG-70)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USS Lake Erie (CG-70) (not yet started)">USS Lake Erie</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_20" title="February 20">February 20</a> – A total <a href="/wiki/Lunar_eclipse" title="Lunar eclipse">lunar eclipse</a> crosses <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Southwest_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Southwest Asia">Southwest Asia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a> – Former building society <a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Rock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern Rock (not yet started)">Northern Rock</a> is the first bank in Europe to be taken into state control, due to the U.S. subprime mortgage financial crisis.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a> – No survivors are found after a rescue helicopter discovers the wreckage of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Santa_B%C3%A1rbara_Airlines_Flight_518&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 (not yet started)">Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518</a> just northeast of <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_M%C3%A9rida" class="mw-redirect" title="Mérida, Mérida">Mérida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>. The commercial plane had 46 people on board, including crew.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_24" title="February 24">February 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro" title="Raúl Castro">Raúl Castro</a> is unanimously elected as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Cuba" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Cuba">President of Cuba</a> by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Assembly_of_People%27s_Power&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Assembly of People's Power (not yet started)">National Assembly</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a> -- <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> release operating system <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_2008" title="Windows Server 2008">Windows Server 2008</a> on worldwide</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=4" title="Change 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title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March" title="March">March</a>–<a href="/wiki/April" title="April">April</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2007–2008 world food price crisis (not yet started)">Rising food and fuel prices</a> trigger riots and unrest in the <a href="/wiki/Third_World" title="Third World">Third World</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>, at least 52 Palestinians and 2 Israeli soldiers are killed in the most intense Israeli air strikes since 2005.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Andean_diplomatic_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Andean diplomatic crisis (not yet started)">2008 Andean diplomatic crisis</a>: <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> move troops to the <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombian</a> border, following a Colombian raid against <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia">FARC</a> guerrillas inside Ecuador's national territory, in which senior commander <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ra%C3%BAl_Reyes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raúl Reyes (not yet started)">Raúl Reyes</a> is killed.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – Eight <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> civilians <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercaz_HaRav_massacre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mercaz HaRav massacre (not yet started)">are killed and 9 wounded</a> when a <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian</a> attacker opens fire at a <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> seminary in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> – The first <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Automated_Transfer_Vehicle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Automated Transfer Vehicle (not yet started)">Automated Transfer Vehicle</a>, a cargo spacecraft for the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>, launches from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guiana_Space_Centre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guiana Space Centre (not yet started)">Guiana Space Centre</a> in <a href="/wiki/French_Guiana" title="French Guiana">French Guiana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Tibetan_unrest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Tibetan unrest (not yet started)">Demonstrations</a> by <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibetan</a> separatists turn violent as rioters target government and <a href="/wiki/Han_Chinese" title="Han Chinese">Han Chinese</a>-owned buildings.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – A gun factory explosion in <a href="/w/index.php?title=G%C3%ABrdec&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gërdec (not yet started)">Gërdec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> kills more than 30. 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href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> – A 414 square kilometer (160 sq. mi.2) chunk of <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica's</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilkins_Sound&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wilkins Sound (not yet started)">Wilkins Ice Shelf</a> disintegrates, leaving the entire shelf at risk.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_25" title="March 25">March 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comoros" title="Comoros">Comoros</a> forces <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_invasion_of_Anjouan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 invasion of Anjouan (not yet started)">invade</a> the rebel-held island of <a href="/wiki/Anjouan" title="Anjouan">Anjouan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zimbabwean_presidential_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 (not yet started)">Presidential</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zimbabwean_parliamentary_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 (not yet started)">parliamentary elections</a> are held in <a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=5" title="Change section: April" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section's source code: April">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" style="background:lightblue;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=April_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="April 2008 (not yet started)">April 2008</a> 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started)">6</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_7,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 7, 2008 (not yet started)">7</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_8,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 8, 2008 (not yet started)">8</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_9,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 9, 2008 (not yet started)">9</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_10,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 10, 2008 (not yet started)">10</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_11,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's 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(not yet started)">20</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_21,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 21, 2008 (not yet started)">21</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_22,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 22, 2008 (not yet started)">22</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_23,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 23, 2008 (not yet started)">23</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_24,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 24, 2008 (not yet started)">24</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_25,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 25, 2008 (not yet started)">25</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_26,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 26, 2008 (not yet started)">26</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_8" title="April 8">April 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">Privy Council</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sark" title="Sark">Sark</a> dismantles its <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal system</a> to comply with the <a href="/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights" title="European Convention on Human Rights">European Convention on Human Rights</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> and the first <a href="/wiki/Election" title="Election">elections</a> under the new law will be held in December 2008 and the new chamber will first convene in January 2009.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hewa_Bora_Airways&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hewa Bora Airways (not yet started)">Hewa Bora Airways</a> <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9" title="McDonnell Douglas DC-9">DC-9</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Hewa_Bora_Airways_crash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Hewa Bora Airways crash (not yet started)">crashes</a> into a residential area of <a href="/wiki/Goma" title="Goma">Goma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_17" title="April 17">April 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Raila_Odinga" title="Raila Odinga">Raila Odinga</a> becomes the new <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Kenya" title="Prime Minister of Kenya">Prime Minister of Kenya</a> after the formation of a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Government_of_National_Unity_(Kenya)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Government of National Unity (Kenya) (not yet started)">coalition government</a>, ending the <a href="/w/index.php?title=2007%E2%80%932008_Kenyan_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2007–2008 Kenyan crisis (not yet started)">political crisis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> – Surgeons at London's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Moorfields_Eye_Hospital&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Moorfields Eye Hospital (not yet started)">Moorfields Eye Hospital</a> perform the first operations using <a href="/w/index.php?title=Visual_prosthesis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Visual prosthesis (not yet started)">bionic eyes</a>, implanting them into 2 blind patients.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_27" title="April 27">April 27</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> attempts to assassinate <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> President <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> in a military parade in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> sets a world record by sending 10 <a href="/wiki/Satellite_(artificial)" title="Satellite (artificial)">satellites</a> into orbit in a single launch.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_China_Railways_train_T195_accident&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 China Railways train T195 accident (not yet started)">71 die in a train crash</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shandong" title="Shandong">Shandong</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=6" title="Change section: May" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_1,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 1, 2008 (not yet started)">1</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_2,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2, 2008 (not yet started)">2</a> </td> <td><a 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started)">7</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_8,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 8, 2008 (not yet started)">8</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_9,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 9, 2008 (not yet started)">9</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_10,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 10, 2008 (not yet started)">10</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_11,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 11, 2008 (not yet started)">11</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_12,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured 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title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 17, 2008 (not yet started)">17</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_18,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 18, 2008 (not yet started)">18</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_19,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 19, 2008 (not yet started)">19</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_20,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 20, 2008 (not yet started)">20</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_21,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 21, 2008 (not yet started)">21</a> </td> <td><a 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started)">26</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/May_31,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured 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Russia">President of Russia</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_8" title="May 8">May 8</a> – Start of armed clashes and fighting in <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_fighting_in_Lebanon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 fighting in Lebanon (not yet started)">Lebanon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_11" title="May 11">May 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a>/Myanmar holds a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Burmese_constitutional_referendum,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Burmese constitutional referendum, 2008 (not yet started)">constitutional referendum</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – Over 69,000 are killed in central south-west <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> by the <a href="/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake" title="2008 Sichuan earthquake">Wenchuan quake</a>, an earthquake measuring 7.9 <a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">Moment magnitude scale</a>. 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title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pedra_Branca,_Singapore" title="Pedra Branca, Singapore">Pedra Branca</a> to <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, ending a 29-year <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pedra_Branca_dispute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pedra Branca dispute (not yet started)">territorial dispute</a> between the 2 countries.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA's</a> <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)" title="Phoenix (spacecraft)">Phoenix spacecraft</a> becomes the first to land on the northern polar region of <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_28" title="May 28">May 28</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal</a> is established after the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nepalese_Constituent_Assembly&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nepalese Constituent Assembly (not yet started)">Assembly</a> votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nepalese_monarchy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nepalese monarchy (not yet started)">240-year-old monarchy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Girija_Prasad_Koirala" title="Girija Prasad Koirala">Girija Prasad Koirala</a> becomes temporary <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convention on Cluster Munitions (not yet started)">Convention on Cluster Munitions</a> is adopted in Dublin.<a href="#cite_note-cluster-54">[54]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=7" title="Change section: June" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> 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title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/June_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> – A <a href="/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire" title="2008 Universal Studios fire">fire</a> at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Universal_Studios_Hollywood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Universal Studios Hollywood (not yet started)">Universal Studios Hollywood</a> destroys 118,000 to 175,000 copies of master tapes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – A car bomb <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Danish_embassy_bombing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Danish embassy bombing (not yet started)">explodes</a> outside the <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a> embassy in <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, killing at least five.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – In the <a href="/wiki/Akihabara" title="Akihabara">Akihabara</a> area of <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, a 25-year-old man <a href="/wiki/Akihabara_massacre" title="Akihabara massacre">stabs seven to death and wounds 10</a>, before being arrested.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – Fire engulfs <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sudan_Airways_Flight_109&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sudan Airways Flight 109 (not yet started)">Sudan Airways Flight 109</a> after it lands in <a href="/wiki/Khartoum" title="Khartoum">Khartoum</a>, killing 44.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gamma-ray_Large_Area_Space_Telescope&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (not yet started)">Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope</a> is launched.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harper" title="Stephen Harper">Stephen Harper</a> apologizes to Canada's <a href="/wiki/First_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="First Nations">First Nations</a> for the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_residential_school_system&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canadian residential school system (not yet started)">Canadian residential school system</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a> votes to reject the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon" title="Treaty of Lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>, in the only <a href="/w/index.php?title=Twenty-eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_Bill,_2008_(Ireland)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2008 (Ireland) (not yet started)">referendum</a> to be held by a <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> member state on the treaty.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_14" title="June 14">June 14</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Iwate-Miyagi_Nairiku_earthquake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg/220px-34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg/330px-34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg/440px-34th_G8_summit_member_20080708.jpg 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="279" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/34th_G8_summit" title="34th G8 summit">34th G8 summit</a> heads of delegations in <a href="/w/index.php?title=T%C5%8Dyako,_Hokkaid%C5%8D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tōyako, Hokkaidō (not yet started)">Tōyako</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_2" title="July 2">July 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dngrid_Betancourt" title="Íngrid Betancourt">Íngrid Betancourt</a> and 14 other hostages are <a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Jaque&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Jaque (not yet started)">rescued</a> from <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia">FARC</a> by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombian</a> security forces.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a> – A suicide-bomber <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Indian_embassy_bombing_in_Kabul&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul (not yet started)">drives an explosives-laden automobile</a> into the front gates of the <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> embassy in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, killing 58 and injuring over 150.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a>–<a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">9</a> – The <a href="/wiki/34th_G8_summit" title="34th G8 summit">34th G8 summit</a> is held in <a href="/w/index.php?title=T%C5%8Dyako,_Hokkaid%C5%8D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tōyako, Hokkaidō (not yet started)">Tōyako, Hokkaidō</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – Former <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Macedonia">Macedonian</a> Interior Minister <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ljube_Bo%C5%A1koski&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ljube Boškoski (not yet started)">Ljube Boškoski</a> is acquitted of all charges, by a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">UN</a> Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_15" title="July 15">July 15</a>–<a href="/wiki/July_20" title="July 20">20</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=World_Youth_Day_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="World Youth Day 2008 (not yet started)">World Youth Day</a> takes place in <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> appears at the event.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_21" title="July 21">July 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87" title="Radovan Karadžić">Radovan Karadžić</a>, the first president of the <a href="/wiki/Republika_Srpska" title="Republika Srpska">Republika Srpska</a>, is arrested in <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> on allegations of war crimes, following a 12-year long <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manhunt_(law_enforcement)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manhunt (law enforcement) (not yet started)">manhunt</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Progressive_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Progressive Alliance (not yet started)">United Progressive Alliance</a>-led government in India survives a crucial <a href="/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence" title="Motion of no confidence">no-confidence vote</a>, based on disagreements between the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Left_Front&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Left Front (not yet started)">Left Front</a>, over the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Indo-US_civilian_nuclear_agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement (not yet started)">Indo-US nuclear deal</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_23" title="July 23">July 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ram_Baran_Yadav" title="Ram Baran Yadav">Ram Baran Yadav</a> is sworn in as the first <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nepal" title="President of Nepal">President of Nepal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_25" title="July 25">July 25</a> – A series of <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Bangalore_serial_blasts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Bangalore serial blasts (not yet started)">seven bomb blasts</a> rock <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, killing two and injuring 20; the next day, a <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Ahmedabad_bombings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Ahmedabad bombings (not yet started)">series of bomb blasts</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ahmedabad" title="Ahmedabad">Ahmedabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, kills 45 and injures over 160 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_27" title="July 27">July 27</a> – At least 17 are killed and over 154 wounded in <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Istanbul_bombings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Istanbul bombings (not yet started)">2 blasts</a> in <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_28" title="July 28">July 28</a> – At least 48 are dead and over 287 injured after bombs explode in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kirkuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kirkuk (not yet started)">Kirkuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-yahooiraq-61">[61]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=9" title="Change section: August" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section's source code: August">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" style="background:lightblue;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=August_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="August 2008 (not yet started)">August 2008</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Monday" title="Monday">Mo</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Tuesday" title="Tuesday">Tu</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Wednesday" title="Wednesday">We</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Thursday" title="Thursday">Th</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Friday" title="Friday">Fr</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Saturday" title="Saturday">Sa</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Sunday" title="Sunday">Su</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a 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title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 7, 2008 (not yet started)">7</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_8,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 8, 2008 (not yet started)">8</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_9,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 9, 2008 (not yet started)">9</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_10,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 10, 2008 (not yet started)">10</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_11,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 11, 2008 (not yet started)">11</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_12,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 12, 2008 (not yet started)">12</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_13,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 13, 2008 (not yet started)">13</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_14,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 14, 2008 (not yet started)">14</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_15,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 15, 2008 (not yet started)">15</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_16,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 16, 2008 (not yet started)">16</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_17,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 17, 2008 (not yet started)">17</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_18,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 18, 2008 (not yet started)">18</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_19,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 19, 2008 (not yet started)">19</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_20,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 20, 2008 (not yet started)">20</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_21,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 21, 2008 (not yet started)">21</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_22,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 22, 2008 (not yet started)">22</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_23,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 23, 2008 (not yet started)">23</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_24,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 24, 2008 (not yet started)">24</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_25,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 25, 2008 (not yet started)">25</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_26,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 26, 2008 (not yet started)">26</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/August_31,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 31, 2008 (not yet started)">31</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> – A total <a href="/wiki/Eclipse" title="Eclipse">eclipse</a> of the Sun is visible from Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Tupou_V&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Tupou V (not yet started)">George Tupou V</a> is crowned as the new King of <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a>, an event that had been delayed for over two years following the <a href="/w/index.php?title=2006_Nuku%27alofa_riots&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2006 Nuku'alofa riots (not yet started)">2006 Nuku'alofa riots</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Naina_Devi_temple_stampede&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Naina Devi temple stampede (not yet started)">stampede</a> at a <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> temple at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Naina_Devi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naina Devi (not yet started)">Naina Devi</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bilaspur,_Himachal_Pradesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh (not yet started)">Bilaspur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Himachal_Pradesh" title="Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> kills 162 and injures 400.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a> – Two members of the <a href="/wiki/East_Turkestan_Islamic_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="East Turkestan Islamic Movement">East Turkestan Islamic Movement</a>, which had threatened to attack the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">Beijing Olympics</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Kashgar_attack&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Kashgar attack (not yet started)">kill 16 and injure another 16 officers</a> at a police station in <a href="/wiki/Kashgar" title="Kashgar">Kashgar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China">China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_6" title="August 6">August 6</a> – President <a href="/wiki/Sidi_Ould_Cheikh_Abdallahi" title="Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi">Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mauritania" title="Mauritania">Mauritania</a> is deposed in a <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Mauritanian coup d'état (not yet started)">military coup d'état</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_7" title="August 7">August 7</a> – The <a href="/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 South Ossetia war">2008 South Ossetia war</a> begins, as <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> launch a major offensive inside the separatist region of <a href="/wiki/South_Ossetia" title="South Ossetia">South Ossetia</a> after days of border skirmishes between the two sides.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_8" title="August 8">August 8</a>–<a href="/wiki/August_24" title="August 24">24</a> – The <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Summer Olympics</a> take place in <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> – Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as <a href="/wiki/Prachanda" class="mw-redirect" title="Prachanda">Prachanda</a>) is sworn in as the first <a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Nepal" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Nepal">Prime Minister</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal</a>, after the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nepalese_monarchy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nepalese monarchy (not yet started)">Nepalese monarchy</a> was abolished in <a href="#May">May</a>.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_17" title="August 17">August 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Phelps" title="Michael Phelps">Michael Phelps</a> surpasses <a href="/wiki/Mark_Spitz" title="Mark Spitz">Mark Spitz</a> in Gold Medals won at a single <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympics</a>, winning eight.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf" title="Pervez Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</a> resigns as <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a>, under impeachment pressure from the coalition government.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_19" title="August 19">August 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgents</a> kill 10 and injure 21 <a href="/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army">French soldiers</a> in an <a href="/w/index.php?title=Uzbin_valley_ambush&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Uzbin valley ambush (not yet started)">ambush</a> in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_19" title="August 19">August 19</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Suicide_attack" title="Suicide attack">suicide bomber</a> rams a car into an <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algerian</a> military academy, killing 43 and injuring 45.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_20" title="August 20">August 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022" title="Spanair Flight 5022">Spanair Flight 5022</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> to <a href="/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a>, skids off the runway and crashes at <a href="/wiki/Madrid_Barajas_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrid Barajas International Airport">Barajas Airport</a> with 172 on board. Of them, 154 die and 18 survive.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a> – At least 60 die following <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Wah_bombing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Wah bombing (not yet started)">twin suicide bombings</a> outside the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan_Ordnance_Factories&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pakistan Ordnance Factories (not yet started)">Pakistan Ordnance Factories</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wah" title="Wah">Wah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_22" title="August 22">August 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Piracy" title="Piracy">Pirates</a> hijack <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> cargo ships off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, in seven such attacks since <a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a>.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_24" title="August 24">August 24</a> – An aircraft crashes in <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, killing 10, including four <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">Americans</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Humanitarianism" title="Humanitarianism">humanitarian mission</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_24" title="August 24">August 24</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Iran_Aseman_Airlines_Flight_6895&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 (not yet started)">Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895</a> crashes upon <a href="/wiki/Takeoff" title="Takeoff">takeoff</a> near <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manas_International_Airport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manas International Airport (not yet started)">Manas International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bishkek" title="Bishkek">Bishkek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>, killing 68.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_recognition_of_Abkhazia_and_South_Ossetia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (not yet started)">unilaterally recognizes</a> the independence of <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgian</a> breakaway republics <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Ossetia" title="South Ossetia">South Ossetia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav" title="Hurricane Gustav">Hurricane Gustav</a> makes landfall on <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> as <a href="/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale">Category 2</a> and kills seven in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, after making landfall on western <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> as <a href="/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_4" class="mw-redirect" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale">Category 4</a>, and killing 66 in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, eight in the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, and 11 in <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_28" title="August 28">August 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/September_7" title="September 7">September 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Hanna_(2008)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane Hanna (2008)">Hurricane Hanna</a> kills seven in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, and 529 in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, mostly due to <a href="/wiki/Flood" title="Flood">floods</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mudflow" title="Mudflow">mudslides</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=10" title="Change section: September" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section's source code: September">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" style="background:lightblue;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=September_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="September 2008 (not yet started)">September 2008</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td 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href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_12,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 12, 2008 (not yet started)">12</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_13,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 13, 2008 (not yet started)">13</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_14,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 14, 2008 (not yet started)">14</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_15,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 15, 2008 (not yet started)">15</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_16,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 16, 2008 (not yet started)">16</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_17,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 17, 2008 (not yet started)">17</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_18,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 18, 2008 (not yet started)">18</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_19,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 19, 2008 (not yet started)">19</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_20,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 20, 2008 (not yet started)">20</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_21,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 21, 2008 (not yet started)">21</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_22,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 22, 2008 (not yet started)">22</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_23,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 23, 2008 (not yet started)">23</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_24,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 24, 2008 (not yet started)">24</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_25,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 25, 2008 (not yet started)">25</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_26,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 26, 2008 (not yet started)">26</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/September_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a>–<a href="/wiki/September_14" title="September 14">14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ike" title="Hurricane Ike">Hurricane Ike</a> makes landfall on <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> as <a href="/wiki/Saffir-Simpson_Hurricane_Scale#Category_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale">Category 2</a> and kills 27 in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, after killing four in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, one in the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, and 75 in <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan" title="Prime Minister of Japan">Prime Minister of Japan</a> <a href="/wiki/Yasuo_Fukuda" title="Yasuo Fukuda">Yasuo Fukuda</a> resigns, less than a year after taking office following <a href="/wiki/Shinzo_Abe" title="Shinzo Abe">Shinzo Abe</a>'s resignation.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Thai_political_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Thai political crisis (not yet started)">Political crisis in Thailand</a>: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Thailand" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Thailand">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Samak_Sundaravej" title="Samak Sundaravej">Samak Sundaravej</a> of <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> declares a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bangkok" title="Bangkok">Bangkok</a>.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_3" title="September 3">September 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan" title="Prime Minister of Pakistan">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Yousaf_Raza_Gillani" title="Yousaf Raza Gillani">Yousaf Raza Gillani</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> survives an assassination attempt near <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, while on his way to meet <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(United_Kingdom)" title="Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)">British Leader of the Opposition</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_3" title="September 3">September 3</a> – President's <a href="/wiki/Dimitris_Christofias" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimitris Christofias">Dimitris Christofias</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mehmet_Ali_Talat" title="Mehmet Ali Talat">Mehmet Ali Talat</a> hold peace talks in <a href="/wiki/Nicosia" title="Nicosia">Nicosia</a>, aimed at reunifying Cyprus.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> is <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistani_presidential_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pakistani presidential election, 2008 (not yet started)">elected</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a> by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_College_of_Pakistan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Electoral College of Pakistan (not yet started)">Electoral College of Pakistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – At least eight <a href="/wiki/Boulder" title="Boulder">boulders</a> dislodge from a cliff near <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, killing at least 90 and burying an estimated 500 people.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_9" title="September 9">September 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Thai_political_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Thai political crisis (not yet started)">Political crisis in Thailand</a>: The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Constitutional_Court_of_Thailand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constitutional Court of Thailand (not yet started)">Constitutional Court of Thailand</a> orders <a href="/wiki/Samak_Sundaravej" title="Samak Sundaravej">Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej</a> to resign, after he is paid for appearing on a <a href="/wiki/Cooking_show" title="Cooking show">television cooking show</a>.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_10" title="September 10">September 10</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Proton" title="Proton">proton</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Particle_beam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Particle beam (not yet started)">beam</a> is circulated for the first time in the <a href="/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" title="Large Hadron Collider">Large Hadron Collider</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_accelerators_in_particle_physics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of accelerators in particle physics (not yet started)">world's largest and highest-energy</a> <a href="/wiki/Particle_accelerator" title="Particle accelerator">particle accelerator</a>, located at <a href="/wiki/CERN" title="CERN">CERN</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, under the Franco-Swiss border.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_12" title="September 12">September 12</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Chatsworth_train_collision&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Chatsworth train collision (not yet started)">Metrolink train collides head-on into a freight train</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles, California</a>, killing 25 and injuring 130.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_14" title="September 14">September 14</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Aeroflot_Flight_821&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aeroflot Flight 821 (not yet started)">Aeroflot Flight 821</a> crashes near the city of <a href="/wiki/Perm" class="mw-redirect" title="Perm">Perm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, killing all 88 on board.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – Following <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Zimbabwean_political_negotiations&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Zimbabwean political negotiations (not yet started)">negotiations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mugabe" title="Robert Mugabe">President Robert Mugabe</a> and opposition leaders <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Tsvangirai" title="Morgan Tsvangirai">Morgan Tsvangirai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mutambara" title="Arthur Mutambara">Arthur Mutambara</a> sign a power-sharing deal, making Tsvangirai the new <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Zimbabwe" title="Prime Minister of Zimbabwe">Prime Minister of Zimbabwe</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lehman_Brothers" title="Lehman Brothers">Lehman Brothers</a> files for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chapter_11&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chapter 11 (not yet started)">Chapter 11</a> bankruptcy protection.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_17" title="September 17">September 17</a> – The <a href="/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union" title="International Astronomical Union">International Astronomical Union</a> classifies <a href="/wiki/Haumea_(dwarf_planet)" title="Haumea (dwarf planet)">Haumea</a> as the 5th <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a>–<a href="/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">25</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Typhoon_Hagupit_(2008)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Typhoon Hagupit (2008) (not yet started)">Typhoon Hagupit</a> kills 17 in <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China">China</a>, eight in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, one in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, and 41 in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamabad_Marriott_Hotel_bombing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing (not yet started)">suicide truck bomb explosion</a> destroys the <a href="/wiki/Marriott_International" title="Marriott International">Marriott Hotel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, killing at least 60 and injuring 266.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_21" title="September 21">September 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki" title="Thabo Mbeki">President Thabo Mbeki</a> of <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> resigns after accepting a call by the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a>.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_24" title="September 24">September 24</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Diet_of_Japan" title="Diet of Japan">Diet of Japan</a> elects <a href="/wiki/Taro_Aso" class="mw-redirect" title="Taro Aso">Taro Aso</a> as the new <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan" title="Prime Minister of Japan">Prime Minister of Japan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kgalema_Motlanthe" title="Kgalema Motlanthe">Kgalema Motlanthe</a> is <a href="/w/index.php?title=South_African_presidential_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="South African presidential election, 2008 (not yet started)">elected</a> by the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_South_Africa" title="National Assembly of South Africa">National Assembly of South Africa</a> as the <a href="/wiki/President_of_South_Africa" title="President of South Africa">President of South Africa</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki" title="Thabo Mbeki">Thabo Mbeki</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhou_7&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhou 7 (not yet started)">Shenzhou 7</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shenzhou_program&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenzhou program (not yet started)">third</a> manned <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chinese_space_program&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chinese space program (not yet started)">Chinese spaceflight</a> and the first with three crew members, is successfully launched. <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China">China</a> becomes the third country ever to conduct a <a href="/wiki/Extravehicular_activity" title="Extravehicular activity">spacewalk</a>.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_28" title="September 28">September 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Falcon_1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Falcon 1 (not yet started)">Falcon 1</a> becomes the world's first privately developed <a href="/wiki/Launch_vehicle" title="Launch vehicle">space launch vehicle</a> to successfully <a href="/w/index.php?title=Falcon_1_Flight_4&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Falcon 1 Flight 4 (not yet started)">make orbit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">September 30</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Jodhpur_stampede&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Jodhpur stampede (not yet started)">Jodhpur temple stampede</a> in western <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> kills over 224 people, and injures 400.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=11" title="Change section: October" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section's source code: October">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" style="background:lightblue;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=October_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="October 2008 (not yet started)">October 2008</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Monday" title="Monday">Mo</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Tuesday" title="Tuesday">Tu</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Wednesday" title="Wednesday">We</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Thursday" title="Thursday">Th</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Friday" title="Friday">Fr</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Saturday" title="Saturday">Sa</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Sunday" title="Sunday">Su</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_1,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 1, 2008 (not yet started)">1</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_2,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 2, 2008 (not yet started)">2</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_3,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 3, 2008 (not yet started)">3</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_4,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 4, 2008 (not yet started)">4</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_5,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 5, 2008 (not yet started)">5</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_6,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 6, 2008 (not yet started)">6</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_7,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 7, 2008 (not yet started)">7</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_8,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 8, 2008 (not yet started)">8</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_9,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 9, 2008 (not yet started)">9</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_10,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 10, 2008 (not yet started)">10</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_11,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 11, 2008 (not yet started)">11</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_12,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 12, 2008 (not yet started)">12</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_13,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 13, 2008 (not yet started)">13</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_14,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 14, 2008 (not yet started)">14</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_15,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 15, 2008 (not yet started)">15</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_16,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 16, 2008 (not yet started)">16</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_17,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 17, 2008 (not yet started)">17</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_18,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 18, 2008 (not yet started)">18</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_19,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 19, 2008 (not yet started)">19</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_20,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 20, 2008 (not yet started)">20</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_21,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 21, 2008 (not yet started)">21</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_22,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 22, 2008 (not yet started)">22</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_23,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 23, 2008 (not yet started)">23</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_24,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 24, 2008 (not yet started)">24</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_25,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 25, 2008 (not yet started)">25</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_26,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 26, 2008 (not yet started)">26</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_31,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 31, 2008 (not yet started)">31</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Global_financial_crisis_of_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global financial crisis of 2008 (not yet started)">Global financial crisis</a>: <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a> <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> signs the revised <a href="/w/index.php?title=Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (not yet started)">Emergency Economic Stabilization Act</a> into law, creating a <a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_fund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United States Emergency Economic Stabilization fund (not yet started)">700 billion dollar Treasury fund</a> to purchase failing bank <a href="/wiki/Asset" title="Asset">assets</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Associated_Press-Raum-2008-10-03-106">[106]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/MESSENGER" title="MESSENGER">MESSENGER</a> spacecraft makes its second of three flybys of <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a>, decreasing the velocity for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Orbit_insertion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Orbit insertion (not yet started)">orbital insertion</a> on March 18, 2011.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_6" title="October 6">October 6</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Kyrgyzstan_earthquake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Kyrgyzstan earthquake (not yet started)">An earthquake</a> measuring 6.6 <a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">magnitude</a> kills at least 65 in <a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Global_financial_crisis_of_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global financial crisis of 2008 (not yet started)">Global financial crisis</a>: <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> agrees to provide <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> with a four-billion-<a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a> loan.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_7" title="October 7">October 7</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Meteoroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Meteoroid">meteoroid</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_TC3&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 TC3 (not yet started)">2008 TC3</a> impacts <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, becoming the first such object to be discovered prior to <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">impact</a>.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Global_financial_crisis_of_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global financial crisis of 2008 (not yet started)">Global financial crisis</a>: Following a major banking and financial crisis in Iceland, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Icelandic_Financial_Supervisory_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority (not yet started)">Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority</a> takes control of the three largest banks in the country: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kaupthing_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kaupthing Bank (not yet started)">Kaupthing Bank</a>,<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <a href="/wiki/Landsbanki" title="Landsbanki">Landsbanki</a>,<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glitnir_(bank)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glitnir (bank) (not yet started)">Glitnir</a>.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Security_Council_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Nations Security Council election, 2008 (not yet started)">elects</a> <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> to two-year terms on the <a href="/wiki/Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Security Council">Security Council</a>.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_21" title="October 21">October 21</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" title="Large Hadron Collider">Large Hadron Collider</a> (LHC) is officially <a href="/wiki/Inauguration" title="Inauguration">inaugurated</a>. It is a collaboration of over 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Scientist" title="Scientist">scientists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Engineer" title="Engineer">engineers</a> from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of <a href="/wiki/University" title="University">universities</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laboratory" title="Laboratory">laboratories</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisation" title="Indian Space Research Organisation">Indian Space Research Organisation</a> successfully launches the<a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-1" title="Chandrayaan-1">Chandrayaan-1</a> spacecraft on a <a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon" title="Exploration of the Moon">lunar exploration</a> mission.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Global_financial_crisis_of_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global financial crisis of 2008 (not yet started)">Global financial crisis</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>'s currency and stock markets rise on the news that it will receive an international <a href="/wiki/Bailout" title="Bailout">economic bailout package</a> worth $25 billion from the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">IMF</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, and <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines" title="Delta Air Lines">Delta Air Lines</a> merges with <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Airlines" title="Northwest Airlines">Northwest Airlines</a>, forming the world's largest commercial carrier.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=12" title="Change section: November" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section's source code: November">change source</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="text-align:center; margin-left: 1em; float:right; clear:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7" style="background:lightblue;"><a href="/w/index.php?title=November_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="November 2008 (not yet started)">November 2008</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Monday" title="Monday">Mo</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Tuesday" title="Tuesday">Tu</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Wednesday" title="Wednesday">We</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Thursday" title="Thursday">Th</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Friday" title="Friday">Fr</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Saturday" title="Saturday">Sa</a> </td> <td width="12.5%"><a href="/wiki/Sunday" title="Sunday">Su</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_1,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 1, 2008 (not yet started)">1</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_2,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2, 2008 (not yet started)">2</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/November_3,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 3, 2008 (not yet started)">3</a> </td> <td><a 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typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg/160px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg/240px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg/320px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1916" data-file-height="2608" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election, 2008">United States presidential election, 2008</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> is elected the 44th <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> is elected the 47th <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a>. Barack Obama becomes the first <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President-elect</a>.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_6" title="November 6">November 6</a> – King <a href="/wiki/Jigme_Khesar_Namgyel_Wangchuck" title="Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck">Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bhutan" title="Bhutan">Bhutan</a> is crowned, having ascended to the throne in <a href="/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">November 7</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_P%C3%A9tionville_school_collapse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Pétionville school collapse (not yet started)">2008 Pétionville school collapse</a> kills at least 92 in <a href="/w/index.php?title=P%C3%A9tionville&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pétionville (not yet started)">Pétionville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_8" title="November 8">November 8</a> – An accident aboard <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=K-152_Nerpa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K-152 Nerpa (not yet started)">K-152 Nerpa</a> kills 20.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=RMS_Queen_Elizabeth_2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (not yet started)">RMS Queen Elizabeth 2</a> departs on her last voyage from <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> to <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">UAE</a>. She will become a floating hotel at <a href="/wiki/Palm_Jumeirah" title="Palm Jumeirah">Palm Jumeirah</a>.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=STS-126&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="STS-126 (not yet started)">STS-126</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Endeavour" title="Space Shuttle Endeavour">Space Shuttle Endeavour</a> uses the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Multi-Purpose_Logistics_Module&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (not yet started)">MPLM Leonardo</a> to deliver <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Standard_Payload_Rack&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Standard Payload Rack (not yet started)">experiment and storage racks</a> to the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. There will be only three more launches of <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Endeavour" title="Space Shuttle Endeavour">Space Shuttle Endeavour</a> after this mission.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_19" title="November 19">November 19</a> – Claudia Castillo of <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> becomes the first person to have a successful <a href="/wiki/Vertebrate_trachea" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertebrate trachea">trachea</a> <a href="/wiki/Organ_transplant" class="mw-redirect" title="Organ transplant">transplant</a> using a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissue_engineering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tissue engineering (not yet started)">tissue-engineered</a> <a href="/wiki/Organ_(anatomy)" title="Organ (anatomy)">organ</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_20" title="November 20">November 20</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Prairie_meteoroid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Prairie meteoroid (not yet started)">2008 Prairie meteoroid</a> falls over <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_22" title="November 22">November 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">23</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=APEC_Peru_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="APEC Peru 2008 (not yet started)">APEC Peru 2008</a> Summit is held in <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Santa_Catarina_floods&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Santa Catarina floods (not yet started)">2008 Santa Catarina floods</a> in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Catarina_(state)" title="Santa Catarina (state)">Santa Catarina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> kill 126 and force the evacuation of over 78,000 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a> holds a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenlandic_self-government_referendum,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greenlandic self-government referendum, 2008 (not yet started)">referendum</a> for increased autonomy from <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>. The vote is over 75% in favour.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Thai_political_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Thai political crisis (not yet started)">Political crisis in Thailand</a>: Protesters from the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_for_Democracy" title="People's Alliance for Democracy">People's Alliance for Democracy</a> party storm into <a href="/wiki/Suvarnabhumi_Airport" title="Suvarnabhumi Airport">Suvarnabhumi Airport</a> and block flights from taking off. More protesters seize control of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Mueang_Airport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Mueang Airport (not yet started)">Don Mueang Airport</a> the following day.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a> – A car bomb in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, kills three people and injures one.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_26" title="November 26">November 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">November 29</a> – A <a href="/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks">series of terrorist attacks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> by <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Islamic_terrorism" title="Islamic terrorism">Islamic militants</a> kills 195, and injures at least 250.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_27" title="November 27">November 27</a> – The longest serving Ocean Liner in history, <a href="/w/index.php?title=QE2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="QE2 (not yet started)">QE2</a> is retired from service.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">November 29</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jos_riots&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jos riots (not yet started)">Riots</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jos,_Nigeria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jos, Nigeria (not yet started)">Jos, Nigeria</a> kill 381, and injure at least 300.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=13" title="Change section: December" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section's source code: December">change source</a>]</div> <table 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title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 24, 2008 (not yet started)">24</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_25,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 25, 2008 (not yet started)">25</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_26,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 26, 2008 (not yet started)">26</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_27,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 27, 2008 (not yet started)">27</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_28,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 28, 2008 (not yet started)">28</a>  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_29,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 29, 2008 (not yet started)">29</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_30,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 30, 2008 (not yet started)">30</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_31,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 31, 2008 (not yet started)">31</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December , 2008 (not yet started)"> </a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – A triangular <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(astronomy_and_astrology)" title="Conjunction (astronomy and astrology)">conjunction</a> formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(astronomy_and_astrology)#2008" title="Conjunction (astronomy and astrology)">prominent object</a> in the evening sky.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Thai_political_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Thai political crisis (not yet started)">Political crisis in Thailand</a>: After weeks of <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_for_Democracy" title="People's Alliance for Democracy">opposition</a>-led protests, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Constitutional_Court_of_Thailand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constitutional Court of Thailand (not yet started)">Constitutional Court of Thailand</a> dissolves the governing <a href="/w/index.php?title=People%27s_Power_Party_(Thailand)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="People's Power Party (Thailand) (not yet started)">People's Power Party</a> and two coalition member parties, and bans leaders of the parties, including <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Thailand" title="Prime Minister of Thailand">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Somchai_Wongsawat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Somchai Wongsawat (not yet started)">Somchai Wongsawat</a>, from politics for five years. As such, Wongsawat promptly resigns and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chaovarat_Chanweerakul&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chaovarat Chanweerakul (not yet started)">Chaovarat Chanweerakul</a> as caretaker Prime Minister.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_3" title="December 3">December 3</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convention on Cluster Munitions (not yet started)">Convention on Cluster Munitions</a> opens for signature in Oslo.<a href="#cite_note-cluster-54">[54]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_4" title="December 4">December 4</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Canadian_parliamentary_dispute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute (not yet started)">Political crisis in Canada</a>: <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General</a> <a href="/wiki/Micha%C3%ABlle_Jean" title="Michaëlle Jean">Michaëlle Jean</a> grants the request of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada" title="Prime Minister of Canada">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harper" title="Stephen Harper">Stephen Harper</a> to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Prorogue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prorogue (not yet started)">prorogue</a> Parliament until January 26, 2009, averting a <a href="/wiki/Motion_of_Confidence" title="Motion of Confidence">motion of no-confidence</a> by the new opposition coalition led by the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Opposition (Canada)">Leader of the Opposition</a> <a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Dion" title="Stéphane Dion">Stéphane Dion</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic Party</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Jack_Layton" title="Jack Layton">Jack Layton</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Bloc_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois" title="Bloc Québécois">Bloc Québécois</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Gilles_Duceppe" title="Gilles Duceppe">Gilles Duceppe</a> as a coalition partner.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – Human remains found in 1991 are identified as <a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">Tsar</a> <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Nicholas II of Russia</a>, using <a href="/wiki/DNA_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="DNA analysis">DNA analysis</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Greek_riots&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Greek riots (not yet started)">Riots spread across Greece</a> after a 15-year-old boy is shot dead by a special guard of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Greek_Police&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greek Police (not yet started)">Greek Police</a>.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_10" title="December 10">December 10</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Channel_Islands" title="Channel Islands">Channel Island</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sark" title="Sark">Sark</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Government">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Crown_dependencies" title="Crown dependencies">crown dependency</a>, holds its <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sark_general_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sark general election, 2008 (not yet started)">first fully democratic elections</a> under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> becomes the 25th European country to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Schengen_Agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Schengen Agreement (not yet started)">join</a> the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Schengen_Agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Schengen Agreement (not yet started)">Schengen Agreement</a>, whereby cross-border passport checks will be abolished.<a href="#cite_note-Swiss_accession-143">[143]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> moves into its nearest point to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, called <a href="/wiki/Perigee" class="mw-redirect" title="Perigee">perigee</a>, at the same time as its fullest phase of the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_phase" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar phase">Lunar Cycle</a>. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincide will be in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-Bewerewolves:_Fullest_Moon_in_15_Years_Tonight-144">[144]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_Wari_ruins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern Wari ruins (not yet started)">Ruins</a> of an ancient <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wari_culture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wari culture (not yet started)">Wari</a> city are discovered in northern <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a> – The <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_Rwanda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (not yet started)">International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda</a> convicts <a href="/w/index.php?title=Th%C3%A9oneste_Bagosora&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Théoneste Bagosora (not yet started)">Théoneste Bagosora</a> and two other senior Rwandan army officers of <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a> and <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes">war crimes</a> and sentences them to <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">life imprisonment</a>.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwadar_port&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gwadar port (not yet started)">Gwadar port</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> becomes fully operational.<a href="#cite_note-The_Dawn-146">[146]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a> – A <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008 Guinean coup d'état (not yet started)">military coup d'état</a> is announced in <a href="/wiki/Guinea" title="Guinea">Guinea</a> shortly after the death of long-time <a href="/wiki/President_of_Guinea" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Guinea">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Lansana_Cont%C3%A9" title="Lansana Conté">Lansana Conté</a>.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008%E2%80%932009_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict (not yet started)">Israel initiates a series of airstrikes followed by an invasion in Gaza Strip</a>, killing at least 1300 (including at least 416 children)<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> and wounding over 2,700.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_29" title="December 29">December 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> holds its <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bangladeshi_general_election,_2008&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bangladeshi general election, 2008 (not yet started)">general elections</a> after two years of <a href="/w/index.php?title=2006%E2%80%932008_Bangladeshi_political_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis (not yet started)">political unrest</a> over the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Caretaker_government_of_Bangladesh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caretaker government of Bangladesh (not yet started)">interim government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a> – An extra <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leap_second&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leap second (not yet started)">leap second</a> (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in <a href="/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=14" title="Change section: Births" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section's source code: Births">change source</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a> - <a href="/wiki/Kate_Moyer" title="Kate Moyer">Kate Moyer</a>, Canadian actress (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Our_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Our House (not yet started)">Our House</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buffaloed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buffaloed (not yet started)">Buffaloed</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Children_of_the_Corn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Children of the Corn (not yet started)">Children of the Corn</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Delia%27s_Gone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Delia's Gone (not yet started)">Delia's Gone</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=15" title="Change section: Deaths" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section's source code: Deaths">change source</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2">January</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=16" title="Change section: January" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section's source code: January">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edmund_Hillary,_c._1953,_autograph_removed.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg/110px-Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg/165px-Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg/220px-Edmund_Hillary%2C_c._1953%2C_autograph_removed.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4300" data-file-height="5458" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" title="Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg/110px-Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg/165px-Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg/220px-Bobby_Fischer_1960_in_Leipzig_in_color.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="617" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Fischer" title="Bobby Fischer">Bobby Fischer</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heath_Ledger_(Berlin_Film_Festival_2006)_revised.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg/110px-Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg/165px-Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg/220px-Heath_Ledger_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2006%29_revised.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1246" data-file-height="1661" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Heath_Ledger" title="Heath Ledger">Heath Ledger</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yo-Sam_Choi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yo-Sam Choi (not yet started)">Yo-Sam Choi</a>, Korean boxer (b. <a href="/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Maila_Nurmi" title="Maila Nurmi">Maila Nurmi</a>, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. <a href="/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_11" title="January 11">January 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" title="Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a>, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. <a href="/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Brad_Renfro" title="Brad Renfro">Brad Renfro</a>, American actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1982" title="1982">1982</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikola_Kljusev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikola Kljusev (not yet started)">Nikola Kljusev</a>, Macedonian Prime Minister (b. <a href="/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_17" title="January 17">January 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Fischer" title="Bobby Fischer">Bobby Fischer</a>, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. <a href="/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Pleshette" title="Suzanne Pleshette">Suzanne Pleshette</a>, American actress (b. <a href="/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_22" title="January 22">January 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Heath_Ledger" title="Heath Ledger">Heath Ledger</a>, Australian actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_22" title="January 22">January 22</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Claude_Piron&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claude Piron (not yet started)">Claude Piron</a>, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Habash" title="George Habash">George Habash</a>, Palestinian politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1926" title="1926">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_27" title="January 27">January 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gordon_B._Hinckley" title="Gordon B. Hinckley">Gordon B. Hinckley</a>, American Mormon leader (b. <a href="/wiki/1910" title="1910">1910</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Archbishop_Christodoulos_of_Athens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (not yet started)">Christodoulos</a>, Archbishop of Athens (b. <a href="/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_2">February</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=17" title="Change section: February" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section's source code: February">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg/110px-MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg/165px-MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg/220px-MaharishiMaheshYogi-06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="567" data-file-height="461" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi" title="Maharishi Mahesh Yogi">Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg/110px-Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg/165px-Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg/220px-Roy_scheider_in_Krakow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="398" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Roy_Scheider" title="Roy Scheider">Roy Scheider</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Janez_Drnovsek.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Janez_Drnovsek.jpg/110px-Janez_Drnovsek.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Janez_Drnovsek.jpg/165px-Janez_Drnovsek.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Janez_Drnovsek.jpg/220px-Janez_Drnovsek.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2454" data-file-height="3048" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Janez_Drnov%C5%A1ek" title="Janez Drnovšek">Janez Drnovšek</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_2" title="February 2">February 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Lederberg" title="Joshua Lederberg">Joshua Lederberg</a>, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. <a href="/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi" title="Maharishi Mahesh Yogi">Maharishi Mahesh Yogi</a>, Indian spiritual leader (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Bertie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Bertie (not yet started)">Andrew Bertie</a>, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. <a href="/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Baba_Amte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Baba Amte (not yet started)">Baba Amte</a>, Indian social activist (b. <a href="/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_10" title="February 10">February 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Scheider" title="Roy Scheider">Roy Scheider</a>, American actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1932" title="1932">1932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfredo_Reinado&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfredo Reinado (not yet started)">Alfredo Reinado</a>, East Timorese rebel (b. <a href="/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_11" title="February 11">February 11</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom_Lantos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tom Lantos (not yet started)">Tom Lantos</a>, American politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Imad_Mughniyah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Imad Mughniyah (not yet started)">Imad Mughniyah</a>, Lebanese militant (b. <a href="/wiki/1962" title="1962">1962</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Badri_Patarkatsishvili&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Badri Patarkatsishvili (not yet started)">Badri Patarkatsishvili</a>, Georgian businessman and politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1955" title="1955">1955</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kon_Ichikawa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kon Ichikawa (not yet started)">Kon Ichikawa</a>, Japanese movie director (b. <a href="/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henri_Salvador&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henri Salvador (not yet started)">Henri Salvador</a>, French singer (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_18" title="February 18">February 18</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alain_Robbe-Grillet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alain Robbe-Grillet (not yet started)">Alain Robbe-Grillet</a>, French writer and movie maker (b. <a href="/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Natalia_Bessmertnova&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Natalia Bessmertnova (not yet started)">Natalia Bessmertnova</a>, Russian ballerina (b. <a href="/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_19" title="February 19">February 19</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yegor_Letov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yegor Letov (not yet started)">Yegor Letov</a>, Russian singer (b. <a href="/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sufi_Abu_Taleb" title="Sufi Abu Taleb">Sufi Abu Taleb</a>, Egyptian politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_23" title="February 23">February 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Janez_Drnov%C5%A1ek" title="Janez Drnovšek">Janez Drnovšek</a>, Slovenian President and Prime Minister of (b. <a href="/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_23" title="February 23">February 23</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Fr%C3%A8re&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Frère (not yet started)">Paul Frère</a>, Belgian racing driver (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Buckley, Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a>, American writer and conservative commentator (b. <a href="/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivan_Rebroff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivan Rebroff (not yet started)">Ivan Rebroff</a>, German singer (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2">March</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=18" title="Change section: March" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section's source code: March">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg/110px-Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg/165px-Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg/220px-Giuseppe_di_Stefano_-_1983.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1084" data-file-height="1585" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Di_Stefano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giuseppe Di Stefano (not yet started)">Giuseppe Di Stefano</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clarke_sm.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Clarke_sm.jpg/110px-Clarke_sm.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Clarke_sm.jpg/165px-Clarke_sm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Clarke_sm.jpg/220px-Clarke_sm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg/110px-Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg/165px-Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg/220px-Paul_Scofield_Allan_Warren.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1061" data-file-height="1119" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ra%C3%BAl_Reyes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raúl Reyes (not yet started)">Raúl Reyes</a>, Colombian guerrilla (b. <a href="/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Healey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeff Healey (not yet started)">Jeff Healey</a>, Canadian musician (b. <a href="/wiki/1966" title="1966">1966</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Di_Stefano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giuseppe Di Stefano (not yet started)">Giuseppe Di Stefano</a>, Italian operatic tenor (b. <a href="/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Smith_(record_producer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norman Smith (record producer) (not yet started)">Norman Smith</a>, English singer and record producer (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gary_Gygax" title="Gary Gygax">Gary Gygax</a>, American writer and game designer (b. <a href="/wiki/1938" title="1938">1938</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Poreku_Dery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Poreku Dery (not yet started)">Peter Poreku Dery</a>, Ghanaian cardinal (b. <a href="/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum" title="Joseph Weizenbaum">Joseph Weizenbaum</a>, German-American writer and computer scientist (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chiara_Lubich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chiara Lubich (not yet started)">Chiara Lubich</a>, Italian Catholic activist (b. <a href="/wiki/1920" title="1920">1920</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Minghella" title="Anthony Minghella">Anthony Minghella</a>, English movie director and screenwriter (b. <a href="/wiki/1954" title="1954">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>, English writer, inventor, and futurist (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hugo_Claus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hugo Claus (not yet started)">Hugo Claus</a>, Flemish writer, painter and movie director (b. <a href="/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scofield" title="Paul Scofield">Paul Scofield</a>, English actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Adolfo_Su%C3%A1rez_Rivera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adolfo Suárez Rivera (not yet started)">Adolfo Suárez Rivera</a>, Mexican cardinal (b. <a href="/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Neil_Aspinall" title="Neil Aspinall">Neil Aspinall</a>, British record producer and business executive (b. <a href="/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Widmark" title="Richard Widmark">Richard Widmark</a>, American actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Marulanda" title="Manuel Marulanda">Manuel Marulanda</a>, Colombian guerrilla (b. <a href="/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_27" title="March 27">March 27</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Marie_Balestre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Marie Balestre (not yet started)">Jean-Marie Balestre</a>, French sports executive (b. <a href="/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dith_Pran" title="Dith Pran">Dith Pran</a>, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. <a href="/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jules_Dassin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jules Dassin (not yet started)">Jules Dassin</a>, American movie director (b. <a href="/wiki/1911" title="1911">1911</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_2">April</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=19" title="Change section: April" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section's source code: April">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg/110px-Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg/165px-Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg/220px-Charlton_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2308" data-file-height="2938" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Patrick_Hillery_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg/110px-Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg/165px-Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Patrick_Hillery_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="1031" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Hillery" title="Patrick Hillery">Patrick Hillery</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hrvoje_%C4%86usti%C4%87&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hrvoje Ćustić (not yet started)">Hrvoje Ćustić</a>, Croatian footballer (b. <a href="/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_5" title="April 5">April 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a>, American actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernesto_Corripio_y_Ahumada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (not yet started)">Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada</a>, Mexican cardinal (b. <a href="/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_12" title="April 12">April 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Hillery" title="Patrick Hillery">Patrick Hillery</a>, 6th President of Ireland (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler" title="John Archibald Wheeler">John Archibald Wheeler</a>, American theoretical physicist (b. <a href="/wiki/1911" title="1911">1911</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_14" title="April 14">April 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ollie_Johnston" title="Ollie Johnston">Ollie Johnston</a>, American animator (b. <a href="/wiki/1912" title="1912">1912</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Beno%C3%AEt_Lamy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benoît Lamy (not yet started)">Benoît Lamy</a>, Belgian movie writer-director (b. <a href="/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_16" title="April 16">April 16</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Norton_Lorenz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Norton Lorenz (not yet started)">Edward Norton Lorenz</a>, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_17" title="April 17">April 17</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aimé Césaire (not yet started)">Aimé Césaire</a>, French Martinican poet and politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_29" title="April 29">April 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hofmann" title="Albert Hofmann">Albert Hofmann</a>, Swiss chemist and writer, discoverer of <a href="/wiki/LSD" class="mw-redirect" title="LSD">LSD</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/1906" title="1906">1906</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2">May</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=20" title="Change section: May" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section's source code: May">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Anthony_Mamo_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg/110px-Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg/165px-Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Sir_Anthony_Mamo_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="648" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Mamo" title="Anthony Mamo">Anthony Mamo</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg/110px-Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg/165px-Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg/220px-Visita_del_Calvo-Sotelo_1976.jpg 2x" data-file-width="471" data-file-height="627" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_Calvo-Sotelo" title="Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo">Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg/110px-Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg/165px-Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg/220px-Irena_Sendlerowa_2005-02-13_zoom.jpg 2x" data-file-width="793" data-file-height="980" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Irena_Sendler" title="Irena Sendler">Irena Sendler</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sydney_Pollack.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Sydney_Pollack.jpg/110px-Sydney_Pollack.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Sydney_Pollack.jpg/165px-Sydney_Pollack.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Sydney_Pollack.jpg/220px-Sydney_Pollack.jpg 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="454" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Pollack" title="Sydney Pollack">Sydney Pollack</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Mamo" title="Anthony Mamo">Anthony Mamo</a>, 1st President of Malta (b. <a href="/wiki/1909" title="1909">1909</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2" title="May 2">May 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philipp_von_Boeselager&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philipp von Boeselager (not yet started)">Philipp von Boeselager</a>, German military officer (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Leopoldo_Calvo_Sotelo" class="mw-redirect" title="Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo">Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo</a>, Spanish Prime Minister of (b. <a href="/wiki/1926" title="1926">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_8" title="May 8">May 8</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois_Sterchele&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="François Sterchele (not yet started)">François Sterchele</a>, Belgian footballer (b. <a href="/wiki/1982" title="1982">1982</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leyla_Gencer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leyla Gencer (not yet started)">Leyla Gencer</a>, Turkish soprano (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Rauschenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Rauschenberg (not yet started)">Robert Rauschenberg</a>, American pop artist (b. <a href="/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Irena_Sendler" title="Irena Sendler">Irena Sendler</a>, Polish humanitarian (b. <a href="/wiki/1910" title="1910">1910</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Saad_Al-Abdullah_Al-Salim_Al-Sabah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (not yet started)">Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah</a>, Emir of Kuwait (b. <a href="/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bernardin_Gantin" title="Bernardin Gantin">Bernardin Gantin</a>, Beninese cardinal (b. <a href="/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Willis_Lamb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Willis Lamb (not yet started)">Willis Lamb</a>, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. <a href="/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cornell_Capa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cornell Capa (not yet started)">Cornell Capa</a>, Hungarian-American photographer (b. <a href="/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_24" title="May 24">May 24</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Knox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Knox (not yet started)">Rob Knox</a>, British actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Pollack" title="Sydney Pollack">Sydney Pollack</a>, American actor, director, and producer (b. <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_28" title="May 28">May 28</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sven_Davidson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sven Davidson (not yet started)">Sven Davidson</a>, Swedish tennis player (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_29" title="May 29">May 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Luc_Bourdon" title="Luc Bourdon">Luc Bourdon</a>, Canadian Hockey player (b. <a href="/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2">June</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=21" title="Change section: June" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section's source code: June">change source</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg/110px-Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg/165px-Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg/220px-Dino_Risi_Cannes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="398" data-file-height="604" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dino_Risi" title="Dino Risi">Dino Risi</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg/110px-Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg/165px-Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg/220px-Tschingis_Ajtmatow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chinghiz_Aitmatov" title="Chinghiz Aitmatov">Chinghiz Aitmatov</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg/110px-Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg/165px-Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg/220px-Cyd_Charisse_-_1949.jpg 2x" data-file-width="731" data-file-height="972" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cyd_Charisse" title="Cyd Charisse">Cyd Charisse</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Carlin_1975_(Little_David_Records)_Publicity.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg/110px-George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg/165px-George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg/220px-George_Carlin_1975_%28Little_David_Records%29_Publicity.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1116" data-file-height="1213" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Yves_Saint_Laurent_(designer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yves Saint Laurent (designer)">Yves Saint Laurent</a>, French fashion designer (b. <a href="/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_Lapid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tommy Lapid (not yet started)">Tommy Lapid</a>, Israeli television presenter, journalist, and politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>, American musician (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mel_Ferrer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mel Ferrer (not yet started)">Mel Ferrer</a>, American actor, director, and producer (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_4" title="June 4">June 4</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Agata_Mr%C3%B3z-Olszewska&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agata Mróz-Olszewska (not yet started)">Agata Mróz-Olszewska</a>, Polish volleyball player (b. <a href="/wiki/1982" title="1982">1982</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dino_Risi" title="Dino Risi">Dino Risi</a>, Italian director (b. <a href="/wiki/1916" title="1916">1916</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">June 8</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=%C5%A0aban_Bajramovi%C4%87&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Šaban Bajramović (not yet started)">Šaban Bajramović</a>, Serbian musician (b. <a href="/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Algis_Budrys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Algis Budrys (not yet started)">Algis Budrys</a>, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Asrian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karen Asrian (not yet started)">Karen Asrian</a>, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. <a href="/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chinghiz_Aitmatov" title="Chinghiz Aitmatov">Chinghiz Aitmatov</a>, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ove_Andersson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ove Andersson (not yet started)">Ove Andersson</a>, Swedish rally driver (b. <a href="/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/V%C3%B5_V%C4%83n_Ki%E1%BB%87t" title="Võ Văn Kiệt">Võ Văn Kiệt</a>, Vietnamese prime minister (b. <a href="/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Russert" title="Tim Russert">Tim Russert</a>, American journalist (b. <a href="/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Stan_Winston&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stan Winston (not yet started)">Stan Winston</a>, American special effects and makeup artist (b. <a href="/wiki/1946" title="1946">1946</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cyd_Charisse" title="Cyd Charisse">Cyd Charisse</a>, American actress and dancer (b. <a href="/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">June 18</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean_Delannoy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean Delannoy (not yet started)">Jean Delannoy</a>, French movie director (b. <a href="/wiki/1908" title="1908">1908</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a>, American writer, actor, and comedian (b. <a href="/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Chung&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Chung (not yet started)">Arthur Chung</a>, President of Guyana (b. <a href="/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_24" title="June 24">June 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Hurwicz" title="Leonid Hurwicz">Leonid Hurwicz</a>, American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. <a href="/wiki/1917" title="1917">1917</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_27" title="June 27">June 27</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Manekshaw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sam Manekshaw (not yet started)">Sam Manekshaw</a>, Field Marshall of Indian Army (b.<a href="/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_28" title="June 28">June 28</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruslana_Korshunova&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruslana Korshunova (not yet started)">Ruslana Korshunova</a>, Kazakhstani model (b. <a href="/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_29" title="June 29">June 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Don_S._Davis" title="Don S. Davis">Don S. 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DeBakey">Michael E. 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title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_23" title="July 23">July 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Furgler" title="Kurt Furgler">Kurt Furgler</a>, Swiss politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_25" title="July 25">July 25</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Griffin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johnny Griffin (not yet started)">Johnny Griffin</a>, American saxophonist (b. <a href="/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_25" title="July 25">July 25</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Randy_Pausch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Randy Pausch (not yet started)">Randy Pausch</a>, American writer and computer scientist (b. <a href="/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_27" title="July 27">July 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Youssef_Chahine" title="Youssef Chahine">Youssef Chahine</a>, Egyptian movie director (b. <a href="/wiki/1926" title="1926">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_29" title="July 29">July 29</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mate_Parlov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mate Parlov (not yet started)">Mate Parlov</a>, Croatian boxer (b. <a href="/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_2">August</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=23" title="Change section: August" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section's source code: August">change source</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BernieMacTransformersPremiereJune07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/BernieMacTransformersPremiereJune07.jpg/110px-BernieMacTransformersPremiereJune07.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="185" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Ronnie Drew">Ronnie Drew</a>, Irish singer (b. <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Masanobu_Fukuoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masanobu Fukuoka (not yet started)">Masanobu Fukuoka</a>, Japanese microbiologist (b. <a href="/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_19" title="August 19">August 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Levy_Mwanawasa" title="Levy Mwanawasa">Levy Mwanawasa</a>, President of Zambia (b. <a href="/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_20" title="August 20">August 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hua_Guofeng" title="Hua Guofeng">Hua Guofeng</a>, Chinese premier (b. <a href="/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_22" title="August 22">August 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rubens_de_Falco" title="Rubens de Falco">Rubens de Falco</a>, Brazilian actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_23" title="August 23">August 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Huckle_Weller" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Huckle Weller">Thomas Huckle Weller</a>, American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. <a href="/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_28" title="August 28">August 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Hill" title="Phil Hill">Phil Hill</a>, American race car driver (b. <a href="/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_2">September</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=24" title="Change section: September" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section's source code: September">change source</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Newman_in_Carnation,_Washington_June_2007_cropped.jpg" 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href="/w/index.php?title=Alexey_Prokurorov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexey Prokurorov (not yet started)">Alexey Prokurorov</a>, Russian cross-country skier (b. <a href="/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">October 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Haider" title="Jörg Haider">Jörg Haider</a>, Austrian politician (b. <a href="/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">October 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guillaume_Depardieu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guillaume Depardieu (not yet started)">Guillaume Depardieu</a>, French actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">October 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Gonz%C3%A1lez_Zum%C3%A1rraga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antonio José González Zumárraga (not yet started)">Antonio José González Zumárraga</a>, 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Bettie_Page-2.jpg/220px-Bettie_Page-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1049" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bettie_Page" title="Bettie Page">Bettie Page</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tassos_Papadopoulos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Tassos_Papadopoulos.jpg/110px-Tassos_Papadopoulos.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Tassos_Papadopoulos.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="131" data-file-height="201" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tassos_Papadopoulos" title="Tassos Papadopoulos">Tassos Papadopoulos</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg/110px-Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg/165px-Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg/220px-Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2013" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero" title="León Febres Cordero">León Febres Cordero</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MarkFelt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/MarkFelt.jpg/110px-MarkFelt.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/MarkFelt.jpg/165px-MarkFelt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/MarkFelt.jpg/220px-MarkFelt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1567" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mark_Felt" title="Mark Felt">Mark Felt</a></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg/110px-Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg/165px-Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg/220px-Freddie_Hubbard_1976.jpg 2x" data-file-width="679" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Hubbard" title="Freddie Hubbard">Freddie Hubbard</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikel_Laboa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mikel Laboa (not yet started)">Mikel Laboa</a>, Basque singer and songwriter (b. <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Odetta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Odetta (not yet started)">Odetta</a>, American singer (b. <a href="/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Patriarch_Alexy_II_of_Russia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patriarch Alexy II of Russia (not yet started)">Alexy II</a>, Russian Orthodox Patriarch (b. <a href="/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nina_Foch" title="Nina Foch">Nina Foch</a>, Dutch-born American actress (b. <a href="/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yuri_Glazkov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yuri Glazkov (not yet started)">Yuri Glazkov</a>, Russian cosmonaut (b. <a href="/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEan_Jerkovi%C4%87" title="Dražan Jerković">Dražan Jerković</a>, Croatian football player and manager (b. <a href="/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Carleton_Gajdusek" title="Daniel Carleton Gajdusek">Daniel Carleton Gajdusek</a>, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bettie_Page" title="Bettie Page">Bettie Page</a>, American pin-up model (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Avery_Dulles" title="Avery Dulles">Avery Dulles</a>, American Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. <a href="/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Van_Johnson" title="Van Johnson">Van Johnson</a>, American actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1916" title="1916">1916</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tassos_Papadopoulos" title="Tassos Papadopoulos">Tassos Papadopoulos</a>, 5th President of Cyprus (b. <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">December 13</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Horst_Tappert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horst Tappert (not yet started)">Horst Tappert</a>, German actor (b. <a href="/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_15" title="December 15">December 15</a> - <a href="/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Febres_Cordero" title="León Febres Cordero">León Febres Cordero</a>, 46th President of Ecuador (b. <a href="/wiki/1931" title="1931">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Majel_Barrett" title="Majel Barrett">Majel Barrett</a>, American actress (b. <a href="/wiki/1932" title="1932">1932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Felt" title="Mark Felt">Mark Felt</a>, American FBI agent, "Deep Throat" from the Watergate scandal (b. <a href="/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">December 20</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Olga_Lepeshinskaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Olga Lepeshinskaya (not yet started)">Olga Lepeshinskaya</a>, Russian ballerina (b. <a href="/wiki/1916" title="1916">1916</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">December 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mulligan" title="Robert Mulligan">Robert Mulligan</a>, American director (b. <a href="/wiki/1925" title="1925">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_22" title="December 22">December 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Lansana_Cont%C3%A9" title="Lansana Conté">Lansana Conté</a>, President of Guinea (b. <a href="/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a>, English playwright (b. <a href="/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – <a href="/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington" title="Samuel P. Huntington">Samuel P. Huntington</a>, American political scientist (b. <a href="/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eartha_Kitt" title="Eartha Kitt">Eartha Kitt</a>, American singer and actress (b. <a href="/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_29" title="December 29">December 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Freddie_Hubbard" title="Freddie Hubbard">Freddie Hubbard</a>, American jazz trumpeter (b. <a href="/wiki/1938" title="1938">1938</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=28" title="Change section: Awards" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section's source code: Awards">change source</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nobel_Prizes">Nobel Prizes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=29" title="Change section: Nobel Prizes" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section's source code: Nobel Prizes">change source</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Nobel_prize_medal.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Nobel Prize"><img alt="Nobel Prize" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nobel_prize_medal.svg/100px-Nobel_prize_medal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nobel_prize_medal.svg/150px-Nobel_prize_medal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nobel_prize_medal.svg/200px-Nobel_prize_medal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="150" data-file-height="150" /></a><figcaption>Nobel Prize</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Chemistry</a> – <a href="/wiki/Martin_Chalfie" title="Martin Chalfie">Martin Chalfie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osamu_Shimomura" title="Osamu Shimomura">Osamu Shimomura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Y._Tsien" title="Roger Y. Tsien">Roger Y. Tsien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in Economics">Economics</a> – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Literature</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl%C3%A9zio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (not yet started)">Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nobel_Prize_for_Peace&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nobel Prize for Peace (not yet started)">Peace</a> – <a href="/wiki/Martti_Ahtisaari" title="Martti Ahtisaari">Martti Ahtisaari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Physics</a> – <a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kobayashi_(physicist)" title="Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)">Makoto Kobayashi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toshihide_Maskawa" title="Toshihide Maskawa">Toshihide Maskawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoichiro_Nambu" title="Yoichiro Nambu">Yoichiro Nambu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Physiology or Medicine</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi" title="Françoise Barré-Sinoussi">Françoise Barré-Sinoussi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harald_zur_Hausen" title="Harald zur Hausen">Harald zur Hausen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luc_Montagnier" title="Luc Montagnier">Luc Montagnier</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_religious_holidays">Major religious holidays</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=30" title="Change section: Major religious holidays" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section's source code: Major religious holidays">change source</a>]</div> <table class="infobox vevent" style="width:22em"><caption style="font-size:125%">2008 in other <a href="/wiki/Calendar_era" title="Calendar era">calendars</a></caption><tbody><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a></td><td>2008 MMVIII</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita" title="Ab urbe condita">Ab urbe condita</a></td><td>2761</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_calendar" title="Armenian calendar">Armenian calendar</a></td><td>1457 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_calendar" title="Assyrian calendar">Assyrian calendar</a></td><td>6758</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_calendar" title="Bahá'í calendar">Bahá'í calendar</a></td><td>164–165</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar" title="Balinese saka calendar">Balinese saka calendar</a></td><td>1929–1930</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bengali_calendar" title="Bengali calendar">Bengali calendar</a></td><td>1415</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Berber_calendar" title="Berber calendar">Berber calendar</a></td><td>2958</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Regnal_years_of_English_monarchs" title="Regnal years of English monarchs">British Regnal year</a></td><td>56 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a> – 57 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Buddhist calendar</a></td><td>2552</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Burmese_calendar" title="Burmese calendar">Burmese calendar</a></td><td>1370</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a></td><td>7516–7517</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_sexagenary_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese sexagenary cycle">丁亥</a>年 (Fire <a href="/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)" title="Pig (zodiac)">Pig</a>) 4704 or 4644     — to — 戊子年 (Earth <a href="/wiki/Rat_(zodiac)" title="Rat (zodiac)">Rat</a>) 4705 or 4645</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Coptic_calendar" title="Coptic calendar">Coptic calendar</a></td><td>1724–1725</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Discordian_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Discordian calendar">Discordian calendar</a></td><td>3174</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar" title="Ethiopian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a></td><td>2000–2001</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_calendar" title="Hebrew calendar">Hebrew calendar</a></td><td>5768–5769</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hindu_calendar" title="Hindu calendar">Hindu calendars</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Vikram_Samvat" title="Vikram Samvat">Vikram Samvat</a></td><td>2064–2065</td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Indian_national_calendar" title="Indian national calendar">Shaka Samvat</a></td><td>1929–1930</td></tr><tr><td> - <a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></td><td>5108–5109</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Holocene_calendar" title="Holocene calendar">Holocene calendar</a></td><td>12008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Igbo_calendar" title="Igbo calendar">Igbo calendar</a></td><td>1008–1009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Iranian_calendars" title="Iranian calendars">Iranian calendar</a></td><td>1386–1387</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic calendar</a></td><td>1428–1430</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_calendar" title="Japanese calendar">Japanese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Heisei_period" title="Heisei period">Heisei</a> 20 (平成２０年)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Javanese_calendar" title="Javanese calendar">Javanese calendar</a></td><td>1940–1941</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Korean_calendar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North Korean calendar (not yet started)">Juche calendar</a></td><td>97</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Julian_calendar" title="Julian calendar">Julian calendar</a></td><td>Gregorian minus 13 days</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Korean_calendar" title="Korean calendar">Korean calendar</a></td><td>4341</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Minguo_calendar" title="Minguo calendar">Minguo calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">ROC</a> 97 民國97年</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Nanakshahi_calendar" title="Nanakshahi calendar">Nanakshahi calendar</a></td><td>540</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar" title="Thai solar calendar">Thai solar calendar</a></td><td>2551</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_calendar" title="Tibetan calendar">Tibetan calendar</a></td><td>阴火猪年 (female Fire-<a href="/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)" title="Pig (zodiac)">Pig</a>) 2134 or 1753 or 981     — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-<a href="/wiki/Rat_(zodiac)" title="Rat (zodiac)">Rat</a>) 2135 or 1754 or 982</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Unix_time" title="Unix time">Unix time</a></td><td>1199145600 – 1230767999</td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">January 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Islamic_New_Year&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Islamic New Year (not yet started)">Islamic New Year</a> by <a href="/wiki/Lunar_calendar" title="Lunar calendar">Lunar calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_5" title="February 5">February 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Carnival" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> (<a href="/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday" title="Shrove Tuesday">Shrove Tuesday</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_6" title="February 6">February 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" title="Ash Wednesday">Ash Wednesday</a>, observance of <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a> begins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year">Chinese New Year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Saint_David%27s_Day" title="Saint David's Day">Saint David's Day</a>, celebrated in <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day" title="Saint Patrick's Day">Saint Patrick's Day</a>, celebrated in <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, and most of the English-speaking world. (Held on March 15 instead of the usual 17th to avoid the second day in <a href="/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a>).<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> This <a href="/wiki/March_17" title="March 17">March 17</a> will be the last one to fall within Holy Week until 2160.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – March <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">Equinox</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Ostara" title="Ostara">Ostara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Purim" title="Purim">Purim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nowruz" title="Nowruz">Nowruz</a> (<a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian peoples">Iranian</a> <a href="/wiki/New_Year" title="New Year">New Year</a> <a href="/wiki/Public_holiday" class="mw-redirect" title="Public holiday">holiday</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Holi" title="Holi">Holi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a> Sunday, the earliest Easter has fallen since <a href="/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_13" title="April 13">April 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vaisakhi" title="Vaisakhi">Vaisakhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_20" title="April 20">April 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palm_Sunday" title="Palm Sunday">Palm Sunday</a> in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_27" title="April 27">April 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Pascha</a> (or Easter) in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus" title="Ascension of Jesus">Ascension of Jesus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Beltane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beltane (not yet started)">Beltane</a>, a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-quarter_day&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cross-quarter day (not yet started)">Cross-quarter day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_19" title="May 19">May 19</a> or <a href="/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vesak" title="Vesak">Vesak</a> (the birthday of the <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Buddha</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">June 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus" title="Ascension of Jesus">Ascension of Jesus</a> in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a> in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – June <a href="/wiki/Solstice" title="Solstice">Solstice</a>, also known as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Midsummer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Midsummer (not yet started)">Midsummer</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Midsummer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Midsummer (not yet started)">Litha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day" title="All Saints' Day">All Saints' Day</a> in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius" class="mw-redirect" title="Saints Cyril and Methodius">Saints Cyril and Methodius</a> day in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lammas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lammas (not yet started)">Lammas</a>, a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-quarter_day&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cross-quarter day (not yet started)">Cross-quarter day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary" title="Assumption of Mary">Assumption of Mary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – <a href="/w/index.php?title=Raksha_Bandhan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raksha Bandhan (not yet started)">Raksha Bandhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – New Liturgical Year in Eastern Christianity</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a> – Start of <a href="/wiki/Ramadan_(calendar_month)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramadan (calendar month)">Ramadan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_4" title="September 4">September 4</a>- <a href="/wiki/Krishna_Janmashtami" title="Krishna Janmashtami">Janmastami</a> -Birth of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Krishna" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Krishna">Lord Krishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – September <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">Equinox</a>, also known as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mabon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mabon (not yet started)">Mabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">September 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah" title="Rosh Hashanah">Rosh Hashanah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr" class="mw-redirect" title="Eid ul-Fitr">Eid ul-Fitr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur" title="Yom Kippur">Yom Kippur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_13" title="October 13">October 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Diwali" title="Diwali">Diwali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_1" title="November 1">November 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Samhain" title="Samhain">Samhain</a>, a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cross-quarter_day&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cross-quarter day (not yet started)">Cross-quarter day</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Neopaganism">Neopagan</a> new year</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Conception" title="Immaculate Conception">Immaculate Conception</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eid_al-Adha" title="Eid al-Adha">Eid al-Adha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hanukkah" title="Hanukkah">Hanukkah</a> begins at sundown</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – December <a href="/wiki/Solstice" title="Solstice">Solstice</a>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Yule" title="Yule">Yule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_25" title="December 25">December 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> in Western Christianity</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&veaction=edit&section=31" title="Change section: References" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor">change</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=2008&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section's source code: References">change source</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9724317">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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