2008 in Pictures
The Big Picture and Reuters have some great photos and the Economist has an excellent write-up but, to me, these are the most interesting and important events of 2008.
January 3rd: Huckabee and Obama win Iowa caucuses
January 9th: Hillary Clinton finds her voice in New Hampshire
Heath Ledger: April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008
February 18th: Northern Rock is nationalized in the UK
February 19th: Fidel Castro resigns
March 10th: Eliot Spitzer resigns
March 16th: JP Morgan buys Bear Stearns
Charlton Heston: October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008
May 12th: Earthquake in Sichuan, China, kills at least 69,000
June 12th: Ireland rejects Lisbon Treaty
Tim Russert: May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008
George Carlin: May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008
June 27th: Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft
July 2nd: Ingrid Betancourt rescued from FARC after being held for more than 6 years
July 6th: Nadal beats Federer at Wimbledon
July 9th: Iranian missile test and controversy
July 11th: Oil hits record $147 per barrel
July 14th: InBev buys Anheuser-Busch in largest ever foreign purchase of a U.S. company
August 7th: South Ossetia war begins
August 8th: Beijing Olympics begin, one billion people watch the opening ceremony
August 17th: Michael Phelps wins record 8th gold
August 29th: John McCain selects Sarah Palin for #2 on GOP ticket
September 10th: Large Hadron Collider launches, breaks down
September 13th: Hurricane Ike hits Galveston, National Hurricane Center warns of ‘certain death’ for those who don’t evacuate
September 15th: Lehman Brothers files for the largest bankruptcy in history
Paul Newman: January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008
September 28th: The SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed rocket to reach space in its fourth attempt
October 3rd: Bush signs $700 billion bailout bill
November 4th: Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States
November 17th: U.S. and Iraq sign a military pact setting 2011 for final U.S. troop withdrawals
November 23rd: Pirates demand ransom for oil supertanker
November 25th: Protests shut airport in Thailand
November 26th: Mumbai terrorist attacks begin
December 4th: Auto executives return to Capitol Hill asking for bailout funds
December 11th: Bernard Madoff admits to $50 billion Ponzi scheme
What did I miss?
