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A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008. The causes included excessive speculation on property values by both homeowners and financial i…
Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding…
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY), later known as al-Qaeda in the Southern Arabian Peninsula (AQSAP) from March 2008 onwards, was a Sunni Islamist militant organization which operated as al-…
Seven al-Qaeda fighters attack the embassy of the United States in Sanaa, Yemen, leaving 20 people dead.
The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on the night of 20 September 2008, when a dumper truck filled with explosives was detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Paki…
An explosive-laden truck detonated in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and…
Metrolink is a commuter rail system in Southern California, serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties. The system consists of eight lin…
A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135…
On 23 September 2008, a school shooting occurred at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) in Kauhajoki, Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, …
A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before…
Yves Rossy is a Swiss military-trained pilot and an aviation enthusiast. He is known as the inventor of a series of experimental individual jet packs, the latest using carbon-fibre…
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy (pictured) flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY), later known as al-Qaeda in the Southern Arabian Peninsula (AQSAP) from March 2008 onwards, was a Sunni Islamist militant organization which operated as al-…
Seven al-Qaeda fighters attacked the United States embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, leaving 20 people dead.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Re…
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to…
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is an…
The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.
2008 TC3 was an 80-tonne (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilomet…
2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior…
Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the world…
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1
The 2007 Chittagong mudslides occurred in the port city of Chittagong in south-eastern Bangladesh. On 11 June 2007, heavy monsoon rainfall caused mudslides that engulfed slums arou…
Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people
The Al-Askari Shrine, also known as the 'Askariyya Shrine and the Al-Askari Mosque, is a Twelver Shi'ite mosque and mausoleum, located in the city of Samarra, in the Saladin Govern…
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time
Elie is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of Cartier in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The small town of Elie, Manitoba is hit by Canada's most intense tornado on record
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "pope em…
Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thi
Sales of cigarettes and smoking in the United Kingdom are being gradually restricted during the first few decades of the 21st century. The Tobacco and Vapes Act, ban sales of cigar…
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woma…
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo".
Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following…
STS-118 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by the orbiter Endeavour. STS-118 lifted off on August 8, 2007, from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Sp…
Space Shuttle program: STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on a mission to the International Space Station.
Air Moorea Flight 1121 was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Moorea Airport on Moorea Island in French Polynesia on 9 A…
Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir…
The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
Conventional weapons or conventional arms are weapons whose damaging impact comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy. They stand in contrast to weapons of mass destructi…
Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
Roh Moo-hyun was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea from 2003 to 2008.
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim…
A bombing attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto occurred on 18 October 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan. The bombing occurred two months before she was assas…
Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and…