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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 ...
Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquake in Sichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest ...
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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2008.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)
9 August – Chloe Magee became the first Irish Olympian to win a badminton match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 9 August – Flash floods occurred in County Dublin and County Kildare due to record rainfalls of approximately 80 litres per square metre. 10 August – Golfer Pádraig Harrington won the US PGA Championship, his third major win.
Current events/2008 March 14. Queen Elizabeth officially opens London Heathrow Airport 's new Terminal 5. ( The New York Times) Colombian Ministry of National Defense Juan Manuel Santos says the government will pay US$ 2.5 million to Pedro Pablo Montoya, the FARC rebel who killed Iván Ríos. (BBC News)
Beginning of October. The policy response to the subprime crisis started in earnest after Lehman's failure in mid September 2008, accelerated after February 2009, and had become very large by September 2009. Governments have relied on a portfolio of intervention tools, but the biggest commitments and outlays have been in the form of debt and ...
Throughout the race, her public image and experience came under media attention. Although her vice presidential bid alongside McCain was unsuccessful, the 2008 presidential election significantly raised Palin's national profile. 9 The Dark Knight: image commentary 10 Outlook.com: image commentary 11 Lil Wayne: image commentary 12
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