WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 2008
Find out what all happened February to August 2008

A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more. (28. April 2008)

An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. (12. May 2008)

Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters. (30. April 2008)

Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. (2. May 2008)

The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths. (13. May 2008)

ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations. (3. April 2008)

Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war. (7. August 2008)

Iran conducts the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise. (9. July 2008)

The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention. (1. May 2008)

The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level. (16. August 2008)

Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. (24. February 2008)

The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008, as a result ten people are killed. (1. March 2008)

President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns due to the threat of impeachment. (18. August 2008)

Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. (1. July 2008)

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. (13. February 2008)

Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack. (11. February 2008)

A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57. (5. February 2008)

Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody. (3. April 2008)

Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected. (16. July 2008)

A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. (6. March 2008)