(Mods feel free to lock this if it breaks the rules)Lady's and Gentleman, Boys and girls, it's time for 2008 in one Topic! Where we look over the past year!
Before I say anything I would like to inform you that 2008 was a leap year and started on a Tuesday.
January:January 1 - A suicide bombing occurs in Zayouna, Baghdad killing over 25 people during a funeral over the deaths from preceding attack.
January 21 - Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.
January 25 - China's worst snowstorm since 1954 kills 133, delays traffic, and causes massive power outages in central and southern parts of the country.
Febuary:February 5 - U.S. stock market indices plunge more than 3% after a report showed signs of economic recession in the service-sector. The S&P 500 fell 3.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 370 points.
February 7 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-122 to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station.
February 18 - The British government introduces emergency legislation temporarily to nationalize Northern Rock, the fifth largest mortgage bank in the UK, due to the bank's financial crisis.
February 22 - Former Building Society Northern Rock is the first bank in Europe to be taken in to state control due to the US subprime mortgage financial crisis.
March:March–April - Rising food and fuel prices trigger riots and unrest in the Third World.
March 10 - Lance Mackey wins Iditarod Dog Sled Race for a second time.
March 19 - An exploding star halfway across the visible universe becomes the farthest known object ever visible to the naked eye.
April:April 14-15 - A Reif is layed 96 years after the Titanic Disaster.
April 17 - Raila Odinga becomes the new Prime Minister of Kenya after the formation of a coalition government ending the political crisis in Kenya.
April 22 - Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first operations using bionic eyes, implanting them into two blind patients.
April 27 - The Taliban attempts to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a military parade in Kabul.
April 28 - India sets a world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit in a single launch.
May:May 12 - Over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by the Chengdu quake, an earthquake measuring 8.0Mw. The epicenter is 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu, Sichuan province.
May 14 - NASA announces the discovery of Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3
May 25 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft becomes the first spacecraft to land on the northern polar-region of Mars.
May 28 - The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is established after the Assembly votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy. Girija Prasad Koirala becomes temporary Head of state.
June:June 22 - Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines and capsizes the ferry MV Princess of the Stars, leaving hundreds dead or missing.
June 27 - After three decades as the Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates steps down from daily duties to concentrate on philanthropy.
July:July 7 - A suicide-bomber drives an explosives-laden automobile into the front gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 58 and injuring over 150.
July 25 - A series of seven bomb blasts rock Bangalore, India killing 2 and injuring 20 and on the next day, a series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, kills 45 and injures over 160 people.
July 28 - At least 48 are dead and over 287 injured after bombs explode in Baghdad and Kirkuk, Iraq.
August:August 1 - King George Tupou V is crowned as the new king of Tonga, an event that had been delayed for over two years following the 2006 Nuku'alofa riots.
August 4 - Two members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which had threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics, kill 16 and injure another 16 officers at a police station in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
August 8–24 - The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing, China.
September:September 6 - Asif Ali Zardari is elected as the President of Pakistan by the Electoral College of Pakistan.
September 6 - At least eight boulders dislodge from a cliff near Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 18 and burying an estimated 500 people.
September 28 - SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle successfully to make orbit.
October:October 3 - Global financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.
October 9 - Global financial crisis: Following a major banking and financial crisis in Iceland, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority takes control of three largest banks in the country: Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, and Glitnir.
October 29 - Global financial crisis: Hungary's currency and stock markets rise on the news that it would receive an international economic bailout package worth $25 billion from the IMF, European Union, and World Bank.
November:November 4 - In the United States presidential election, Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States and Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President. Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President-elect.
November 11 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) departs on her last voyage from Southampton, UK to Dubai, UAE. She will become a floating hotel at Palm Jumeirah. Earlier that day, at 11am Poppy's where dropped over the ship, and a RAF Aircraft bowed to Her Majesty's ship.
November 26 - November 29 - A series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India kills 164, and injures at least 250.
November 26 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 arrives in Dubai .
December:December 1 - A triangular conjunction formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a prominent object in the evening sky.
December 12 - The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time that it in its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than this year's other full moons. The next time these two events will coincide will be in 2016.
December 27 - Israel bombs the Gaza Strip, killing over 225 and wounding over 700.
And on a Happy note, we wish you a Merry Christmas! And a Happy New year!
Highlight of the year: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! NO MORE 2008!
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- By Me 
that's maybe why i think it's a bit funny ^^'