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The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was the most destructive Atlantic hurricane season since 2005, causing over 1,000 deaths and nearly $50 billion (2008 USD) in damage. [nb 1] The season ranked as the third costliest ever at the time, but has since fallen to ninth costliest. It was an above-average season, featuring sixteen named storms, eight ...
Flo Rida's first U.S. number-one single "Low" was the longest-running number-one of 2008, topping the chart for 10 consecutive weeks. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay. In 2008 ...
Current events/2008 June 18. Brazil celebrates the 100th year of the Japanese Immigration. (Folha Online) Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed survives an assassination attempt. (BBC News) The Parliament of the United Kingdom ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon. (Bloomberg) The United States and China agree to negotiate an investment treaty and to ...
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from June 2008. June 1, 2008 (Sunday) edit. history. watch. Thirteen people are killed and 14 others injured in a bus crash in Anzoátegui, Venezuela. (Xinhua) At least 8 people are suffocated at the Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia, Liberia in a 2010 World Cup qualification ...
June 18 is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2008 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
June 17 – The Boston Celtics earn their 17th NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers. June 18 – Tiger Woods announces he will undergo ACL surgery and won't play golf again until 2009. June 25 – Gunman Wesley Higdon opens fire in a plastics factory in Kentucky, murdering five before committing suicide.
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110–246 (text) (PDF), H.R. 6124, 122 Stat. 1651, enacted June 18, 2008, also known as the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill) was a $288 billion, five-year agricultural policy bill that was passed into law by the United States Congress on June 18, 2008. The bill was a continuation of the 2002 Farm Bill.
In February 2008, four men attempted to cross the border into Canada from New York. While they were being questioned by Canadian border agents, one of the men fled from the car, getting away. [ 13 ] He left behind a backpack, inside of which pictures of New York City locations were found, including at least one picture of the Times Square ...