2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade. 2008 was designated as: International Year of Languages; International Year of Planet Earth; International Year of Sanitation; International …

14 thg 9, 2018 · Sep 14, 2018. A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on September 15, 2008 in New York City. In afternoon trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 500 points as U.S ...

Historical Events for the Year 2008. 1st January » Cyprus and Malta join the Eurozone. 17th January » British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete Write-off known as hull loss of a Boeing 777.

25 July – 2008 Bangalore serial blasts: A series of seven bomb blasts rock Bangalore, kills 2 and injuring 20 and on the next day, a number of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, kills 45 and injures over 160 people. 28 July – Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah family serial aired on SAB TV.

Aug 16 Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the coveted 100m gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. Aug 18 Belarus weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks 3 world records, for the snatch, clean & jerk, and total, on the way to winning the men's 105kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Aug 24 Summer ...

25 thg 5, 2022 · November 2008. Photo: The Balance. The stock market crash of 2008 occurred on September 29, 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 777.68 points in intraday trading. Until the stock market crash of March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the largest point drop in history. The market crashed, partly, because Congress ...

10 thg 2, 2022 · The 2008 financial crisis was the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of 1929. It occurred despite the efforts of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The crisis led to the Great Recession, where housing prices dropped more than the price plunge during the Great Depression. Two years after the recession ended, …

Historical Events in 2008. Jan 1 A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. Jan 1 Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries. Jan 3 74th Orange Bowl: #8 Kansas beats #5 Virginia Tech, 24-21.

The e-2008 is a battery electric vehicle requiring mains electricity for charging. The WLTP (Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure) is used to measure fuel consumption, electric range and CO2 figures. Figures shown are for comparison purposes and should only be compared to the fuel consumption, electric range and CO2 values of other cars tested to the …

What Happened in 2008 Major News Events, Popular Culture, History Prices Switzerland - Large Hadron Collider . CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated during October.The LHC was built in Switzerland with the help of thousands of engineers and scientists between 1998 and 2008. The world’s largest particle accelerator has a circumference of 17 …