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Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquakeinSichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest earthquake of all time; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November Mumbai attacks; the Phoenix spacecraft is the first probe to prove that ice water still exists on Mars; poster in Pristina celebrating the IndependenceofKosovo from Serbia.
Millennium: 3rd millennium
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    British Regnal year56 Eliz. 2 – 57 Eliz. 2
    Buddhist calendar2552
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    Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
    4705 or 4498
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    戊子年 (Earth Rat)
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    (female Fire-Pig)
    2134 or 1753 or 981
        — to —
    阳土鼠年
    (male Earth-Rat)
    2135 or 1754 or 982
    Unix time1199145600 – 1230767999

    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:

    The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued through the entirety of 2008.

    Events[edit]

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  • adorbs
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  • Me Too
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  • TERF
  • unfollow[84]
  • See also[edit]

    References[edit]

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