WHAT HAPPENED IN 2008.
Look what happened the 2008.

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

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

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai. (11. November 2008)

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

After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997. (20. 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)

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

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)

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

Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq. (14. December 2008)

An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry. (22. December 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)

War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. (28. December 2008)