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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.
Law and crime Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes. (The New York Times) The Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick is ordered to go to jail for violating the terms of his bond for an ongoing perjury trial. (NPR) Politics and elections The leaders of the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état promise to hold elections as soon as possible. (Xinhua ...
August 9 is the 221st day of the year ... 1942 – World War II: ... 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (d. 2008)
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level. 2010 – AIRES Flight 8250 crashes at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia , Colombia, killing two people.
October 24, 2008: Many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. [160] In the U.S., the DJIA fell 3.6%, although not as much as other markets. [ 161 ]
1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning). [10] 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq.
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year ... marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. ... 2008 – George Furth, ...
August 27 is the 239th day of the year ... The shortest war in world history ... American football player (d. 2008) 1920 – James Molyneaux, ...