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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]
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 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.
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 2008 Mumbai attacks[ 14] (also referred to as 26/11 attacks) [ 15][ a] were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist [ 16] organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. [ 17][ 18][ 19] The ...
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 ...
30 March – 2008 Farnborough plane crash: A plane crashes into a row of houses in Farnborough, Hampshire, killing two pilots and three passengers. [ 14] 31 March – The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales hears that there is "not a shred of evidence" that The Duke of Edinburgh or MI6 ordered her death. [ 15]