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2008 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2036. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
2008 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 2008
- February 7, 2008 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries.
- March 13, 2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
- April 8, 2008 – The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
- June 27, 2008 – In a highly scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party’s supporters.
- September 11, 2008 – A major Channel Tunnel fire broke out on a freight train, closed part of tunnel for 6 months.
- September 14, 2008 – All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
- September 29, 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
- October 22, 2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
- November 20, 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
Who Were Born On 2008?
- April 16, 2008 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium
- October 9, 2008 – Bo, American dog of Barack Obama
- November 22, 2008 – Zeus, American dog (d. 2014)