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Current events/2008 March 12. The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces a major expansion of efforts to fight smog in cities and towns throughout the United States. (AP via Google News) [permanent dead link]
March 6 – During the early hours of the morning, a small bomb explodes at an unoccupied military recruiting station in Times Square, New York City. No one is injured. March 12 – New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation (effective March 17) days after being linked to a high-priced prostitution ring.
2008 in various calendars. 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:
March 1, 2008. ( 2008-03-01) (Saturday) edit. history. watch. Two IDF soldiers and at least 50 Palestinians are killed during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. ( Jerusalem Post) A wind storm in Europe kills four people in Austria, two people in Germany, and two people in the Czech Republic.
March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) ... 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897) [347]
The 2007–2008 financial crisis led to many bank failures in the United States. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed 465 failed banks from 2008 to 2012. [ 2] In contrast, in the five years prior to 2008, only 10 banks failed. [ 2][ 3] At the end of 2022, the US banking industry had a total of about $620 billion in unrealized ...
The history of the United States from 1991 to 2008 began after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The dissolution signaled the end of the Cold War and left the U.S. unchallenged as the world's sole superpower. The U.S. took a leading role in military involvement in the Middle East.
The USGS provided a map of Asia in May 2008, which showed a total of 122 earthquakes occurring on the continent. The large red square near the center of the map depicts the 7.9 magnitude Chengdu quake in the Sichuan province. A USGS map shows that dozens of aftershocks occurred in a small region following the quake.