2008

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2008 is the current year. It is a year in the 21st century, a leap year starting on Tuesday.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February 1.2 March 1.3 April 1.4 May 1.5 August 1.6 November 2 Deaths 2.1 January 2.2 April 3 References

[change] Events

[change] February

• February 1 - Microsoft offers $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo!.^[1][2]
• February 27 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore.^[3]
• February 28 - Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile.^[4]

[change] March

• March 1 - The Singapore Flyer, the tallest ferris wheel in the world, opens to the public.
• March 2: Presidential election in Russia.

[change] April

• April 2 - The 20th NATO summit begins in Bucharest, Romania.
• April 3 - Jules Verne ATV docks to the International Space Station.
• April 3 - Albania and Croatia are invited to join NATO in 2009. The membership bid of the Republic of Macedonia is rejected due to opposition by Greece.^[5] Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro engage in an Intensified Dialogue with NATO.

[change] May

• May 12 - Thousands are killed in central China in an earthquake measuring 7.9M_w. The epicenter is 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of Chengdu.
• May 13 - A series of bomb blasts kills at least 63 and injures 216 in Jaipur, India.

[change] August

• August 8: 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

[change] November

• November: Presidential election in the United States of America.

[change] Deaths

[change] January

• January 11 - Edmund Hillary, New Zealand explorer (b. 1919)
• January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
• January 27 - Suharto, Second President of Indonesia (b. 1921)

[change] April

• April 1 - Jim Finney, English football referee (b. 1924)
• April 1 - Sabin Balasa, Romanian painter (b. 1932)
• April 2 - Yakup Satar, last Turkish veteran of World War I (b. 1898)
• April 3 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
• April 3 - Johnny Byrne, Irish writer (b. 1935)
• April 5 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
• April 8 - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
• April 8 - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
• April 9 - Cedella Booker, Jamaican singer and writer (b. 1926)
• April 10 - Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919)
• April 12 - Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
• April 13 - Mark Speight, English television presenter (b. 1965)
• April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
• April 14 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
• April 15 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945)
• April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• April 16 - Joe Feeney, American-born Irish tenor (b. 1931)
• April 17 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
• April 17 - Danny Federici, American musician (b. 1950)
• April 19 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)

[change] References

1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-yahoo-microsoft-takeover.html
2. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo;_ylt=Aj86m3fjmUOG95uCDpZtX6qs0NUE
3. ↑ Qaeda Suspect Escapes. Retrieved on 28 February 2008.
4. ↑ The Associated Press: Thaksin Out on Bail in Thailand
5. ↑ [1]