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July 10 – The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game takes place at Yankee Stadium. 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 the ...
2008 ( MMVIII) 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:
May 12, 2008( 2008-05-12)(Monday) 2008 Sichuan earthquake: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits China 's Sichuan province, killing at least 22,000 people. (BBC News) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is "immensely frustrated" at the State Peace and Development Council 's slow response to the cyclone.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2008. At least 38 people die as a motorised ferry sinks in Myanmar 's Irrawaddy Delta. (CNN) Police in Portugal announce that they are closing the investigation on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. (NineMsn news)
Current events/2008 September 12. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501: Fifty years after the airliner vanished over Lake Michigan, it is claimed that human remains washed ashore and were buried without the relatives' knowledge in an unmarked mass grave. (Detroit Free Press)
The 2004 United States presidential election is held. The United States re-elects George W. Bush of the Republican Party to a second term as President of the United States, defeating John Kerry. 11 American states ban gay marriage. November 5 – Pixar Animation Studios ' sixth feature film, The Incredibles, is released in theaters.
History of MSNBC: 2008–2015. The following is a history of MSNBC from 2008–2015. MSNBC is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that was founded in 1996. This era is known for its focus on more opinionated programming, which was drastically cut back in the recent shift towards hard news.
January 8 - The second 2008 U.S. presidential primary season nominating contests for both Democrats and Republicans were held in New Hampshire. Then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York won the Democrat contest, whilst then-U.S. Senator of Arizona John McCain won the Republican race. January 14 - Cyprus, Malta, and Akrotiri and Dhekelia ...