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2008 Thai political crisis: The People's Alliance for Democracy leaves protesting at the Thai Government House and distributes protesters to Bangkok's two airports, Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang, for security reasons. (Nation Multimedia) Flights to Bangkok are canceled and moved to other parts of the country, such as Phuket, Chiang Mai and Chonburi.
December – The unemployment rate soars to 7.3%, the highest since December 1932. December 1 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 680 points, its fourth worst drop in its history, after the National Bureau of Economic Research declared on the same day that the United States economy officially entered a recession in December 2007.
On December 1, 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared that the United States entered a recession in December 2007, citing employment and production figures as well as the third quarter decline in GDP. [45] [46] The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 679 points that same day. [47]
December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) ... 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938) 2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, ...
The 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak has claimed 425 lives and affected 10,000 people since August 2008. (Telegraph.co.uk) NATO 2008 Brussels summit NATO member countries decide not to offer MAP to Georgia and Ukraine, the war in South Ossetia and the Ukrainian government collapse being the main reasons.(Deutsche Welle)
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December 1 – 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute: The Liberal Party of Canada and the New Democratic Party sign an agreement to form a coalition government with the support of the Bloc Québécois if they are successful in ousting the Conservative minority government in a confidence vote.
1.12 December. 1.13 Date unknown. 2 Births and deaths. 3 Nobel Prizes. 4 New English words. ... 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, ...