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July 10 – The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place at Yankee Stadium. [33] The home American League wins 4–3 in 15 innings, giving home field advantage in the 2008 World Series to the AL champion, which eventually came to be the Tampa Bay Rays. July 18 – The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, is released. It was ...
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.
(AP via USA Today) 2008 South Ossetia war: David Cameron threw his weight behind international condemnation of Russia with a call for the suspension of European negotiations with the superpower. (The Guardian)
2008 United States presidential election ← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 61.6% 1.5 pp Nominee Barack Obama John McCain Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Arizona Running mate Joe Biden Sarah Palin Electoral vote 365 173 States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22 Popular vote 69,498,516 ...
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(AP via USA Today) 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Tropical Storm Gustav makes landfall on the island of Jamaica. The storm is responsible for at least 51 deaths in Haiti and 8 more in the Dominican Republic. Tropical Storm Hanna forms northeast of the Leeward Islands. (AP via MarketWatch)
The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV. Now in their 20s and beyond, these talented ladies are no longer competing on ...
The 2008 Summer Olympics starts with the 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony at the Beijing National Stadium. (The Christian Science Monitor)2008 South Ossetia War: . Around 0:30 AM (local time), Georgia begins a full-scale attack on the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, using tanks, military aircraft, artillery, and infantry.