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Iron Man becomes the first movie of 2008 to earn $300 million in the United States and Canada. 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival launches a new sidebar celebrating the spirit of discovery, including selections Bigga Than Ben, Blood Car, Crack Willow, Spike, Strange Girls, and The Third Pint.
A series of 4 blasts set off in Agartala, capital of the Indian state of Tripura, killing at least 4 people and injuring 100. Times of India. October 2, 2008 (Thursday) edit. history. watch. Sarah Palin and Joe Biden have their only scheduled debate for the vice presidency of the United States.
Politics and elections George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union Address as President of the United States. (The Los Angeles Times) January 29, 2008 (2008-01-29) (Tuesday) edit history watch 20 civilians including 11 children die and 14 are wounded after a mine explodes targeting a school bus in Madhu, Sri Lanka. (Sunday Times) Iran's judiciary sentences 54 Baháʼí religion ...
Rambo [a] is a 2008 action film directed and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, based on the character John Rambo created by author David Morrell for his novel First Blood. [10] A sequel to Rambo III (1988), it is the fourth installment in the Rambo franchise and co-stars Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos ...
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 10, 2008. It honored musical achievement of 2007 in which albums were released between October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007. The primary ceremonies were televised in the US on CBS; however, as has become the custom, most of the awards were handed ...
The 2008 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 9 March 2008, to elect the 9th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 264 seats in the Senate . After four years of growing bipolarisation of Spanish politics, the election saw a record result for both ...
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]
