WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 2008
Find out what all happened July to December 2008

The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer. (6. December 2008)

Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries. (13. September 2008)

Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide. (23. September 2008)

A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others. (20. September 2008)

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

American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games. (17. August 2008)

The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency. (9. December 2008)

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

A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others. (8. August 2008)

The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C. (14. November 2008)

Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades. (25. November 2008)

All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport. (14. September 2008)

Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400. (24. December 2008)

Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza - Operation Cast Lead. (27. December 2008)

56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India. (26. July 2008)

The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (7. September 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 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. (3. October 2008)