WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 2008
Find out what all happened March to December 2008

The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. (12. September 2008)

Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. (24. March 2008)

South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori. (13. August 2008)

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. (3. October 2008)

Barack Obama becomes the first man of African-American descent to be elected President of the United States. (4. November 2008)

A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet. (14. March 2008)

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. (10. September 2008)

Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five. (29. October 2008)

SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit. (28. September 2008)

At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. (8. June 2008)

The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (7. September 2008)

Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. (10. November 2008)

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

Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. (11. December 2008)

2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba. (26. November 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)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop. (15. October 2008)

The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service. (22. April 2008)

Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. (2. May 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)