2008
This page lists news articles and events for the year 2008.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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Undated
- Event: A severed finger, reportedly belonging to a yeti, found in the Royal Academy of Surgeons archives in London
January
- January 3:
- January 15:
- News: Lyons-Dubai
- January 16:
- January 19:
- Event/News: Cult, police clash at Iraqi religious rites
- Event/News: Personal data of 600,000 on lost laptop
- January 25:
February
- February 1:
- Event/News: Emergency landing after co-pilot seeks God
- February 4:
- Event/News: Demons hit school
- February 8:
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- February 15:
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- February 24:
March
- March 6:
- March 11:
- March 17:
- News: Two-Faced Baby Revered As A Goddess In India First news article found
April
- April 21:
- News: Hotels in the Afterlife
- April 27:
May
June
July
- July 9:
- Event/News: 10 people killed by new CJD-like disease
- July 15:
- July 17:
- Event/News: Sharpened Spikes at Green Lake
- July 18:
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- July 24:
- Event/News: Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up
- July 29:
- Event/News: Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk
- July 30:
- July 31:
- Event/News: Bus passenger beheaded seat mate, witness says
- Event/News: Man Arrested in Lakeside Ambush on 3 Wis. Swimmers
August
- August 1:
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- August 3:
- Event/News: Rumors Abound About 'Potential for Life' on Mars
- August 6:
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- August 10:
- Event/News: Blasts, fire at Toronto propane depot
- News: Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up
- August 11:
- Event/News: Family of Montreal teen shot by police upset about riots
- News: The urban prairie
- August 14:
- Event/News: Documents - Julia Child part of WWII era spy ring
- Event/News: Two Roman coffins unearthed in Newcastle
- Event/News: Graves Found From Sahara’s Green Period
- August 15:
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- August 29:
- Event/News: Macomb Mom Dies From Drinking Too Much Water
- August 30:
September
- September 3:
- September 5:
- Event/News: CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies'
- September 10:
- Event/News: Magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks northern Chile
- Event/News: Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits northern Japan
- Event/News: Powerful earthquake rattles northeastern Indonesia
- Event/News: Quake in Iran kills 7, sends tremors across Gulf
- Event/News: Scientists beaming after test of big atom smasher
- September 14:
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- September 18:
- Event/News: Beware the time-eater - Cambridge University's monstrous new clock
- Event: Massive bank run which might have collapsed the US economy narrowly averted. See this article for details.
- September 22:
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- September 28
- Event: SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon 1 orbital rocket
October
- October 1:
- News: The Torture Colony
- October 14:
- Event/News: Expedition set for 'ghost peaks'
- October 17:
- Event: FBI acknowledges sting against the DarkMarket forum.
- October 21:
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- October 31:
- Event/News: Somalia's pirate problem grows more rampant
November
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- Event: An unmanned probe from the Indian Chandrayaan-I space mission lands on the Moon.
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December
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