The word "Ianuarius" is the original Roman designation of the month January.
The name is either derived from the two-faced Roman god Janus, from the Latin word ianua, which means "door", or it is the masculine form of Diana, which would be Dianus or Ianus (Janus).
January 1, 2009, Beginning of the New Year
January 3, 2008, Voters in Iowa go to the polls for the first caucus to determine presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties.
-Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Democratic caucus
-Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee wins the Republican caucus.
January 4, 2008, New Solar Sun Cycle 24 begins
January 6, 2008,Georgian presidential election, 2008: Georgian Incumbent President Mikhail Saakashvili has been re-elected for a new mandate following a snap poll with nearly 53% of the votes.
January 11, 2008, Snow falls in Baghdad, Iraq for the first time in a century.
January 14, 2008, MESSENGER, a NASA mission, flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years.
January 15, 2008, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows the production and sale of foods derived from cloned animals.
January, 18, 2008, Release of Cloverfield. Isis decapitated.
Cloverfield is a 2008 horror movie directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.
The severed head of the Statue of Liberty was inspired by the poster of the 1981 film Escape from New York, which had shown the head lying in the streets in New York. According to Reeves, "It's an incredibly provocative image. And that was the source that inspired producer J. J. Abrams to say, 'Now this would be an interesting idea for a movie".
The film is presented as if it were a video file recovered from a digital camcorder by the United States Department of Defense. The film begins with a disclaimer stating that the following footage is of a case designated "Cloverfield" and was found in the area "formerly known as Central Park.
J. J. Abrams conceived of a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan while promoting Mission: Impossible III. He explained, "We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I thought, we need our own [American] monster, and not like King Kong. I love King Kong. King Kong is adorable. And Godzilla is a charming monster. We love Godzilla. But I wanted something that was just insane, and intense." Abrams pays homage to King Kong approximately 67 minutes into the movie, just after the helicopter crashes. When the video of the camera breaks up, a quick scene from Coney Island is seen. This is followed by several still frames from the original King Kong movie.
January 19, 2008, Adolfo Nicolás is elected as the thirtieth Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
January 21, 2008, Black Monday, Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
-North American Markets: U.S. markets are closed for Martin Luther King Day. Stock futures are down, with March contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading 482 points lower to 11,624. S&P 500 futures are also down 55 points to 1,270.10 and Nasdaq 100 futures are down 72.25 points to 1,777.25. The Toronto Stock Exchange loses over 500 points during morning trading at 12,233.
January 22, 2008, After further losses in international markets, the United States Federal Reserve System cuts its primary interest rate by 75 basis points to 3.5%, the largest move in the interest rate since 1982.
-Actor Heath Ledger of Australia dies of a medication overdose.
January 23, 2008, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, being built for Virgin Galactic to become the world's first commercial spacecraft, is unveiled, and will begin test flights in mid-2008.
January 24, 2008, An Australian girl spontaneously switches blood types and adopts her donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type.
January 26, 2008, The United States government warns that a spy satellite is losing power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in February or March.
January 28, 2008, George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union Address as President of the United States.
January 30, 2008, The United States Federal Reserve cuts the federal funds rate by half a point to 3 per cent, the second cut in this key interest rate in eight days as it acts to head off a recession.
-Internet services are disrupted in the Middle East after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean Sea is damaged.
January 31, 2008, Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hold the first two-person debate.
-Internet failure affects parts of Asia and Africa after two undersea cables, SEA-ME-WE 4 and FLAG, are damaged.
February 1, 2008, February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 in the old Roman calendar.
-Release of the Eye
Sydney Wells, at the start of the film, is a successful classical violinist, although blind since the age of 5. She and her sister, who was seven years older, had been playing with fireworks, and they had been set off too close to her face, damaging her eyes.
Now, nearly 20 years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant which causes her vision to begin returning, albeit blurry. At first, she is confused and disoriented, unable to understand if what she sees is "real" or not.
February 2, 2008, Ground Hogs Day.
February 3, 2008, Super Bowl XLII: The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots 17-14 in Glendale, Arizona at University of Phoenix Stadium home of the Arizona Cardinals.
The New York Giants also resonates the Nephilim in GeneISIS of the Bible. Also during the Halftime show Tom Petty and the HEARTBREAKERS played a line up consisting of
American Girl
I Wont Back Down
Free Fallin
Running on a Dream
After they opened the Stargate (Galactic center/Ophiuchus) Via Sagittarius and Scorpio (Phallic and the Vulva), symbolizing birth.
February 5, 2008, Super Tuesday Voters in 24 states go to the polls to determine presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties.
February 7, 2008, The United States Congress approves a $168 billion economic stimulus package and sends it to President George W. Bush for his approval.
-Space Shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on its STS-122 mission.
The mission was also referred to as ISS-1E by the ISS program. The primary objective of STS-122 was to deliver the European Columbus science laboratory, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), to the station. It also returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. Tani was replaced on Expedition 16 by Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA. After Atlantis' landing, the orbiter will be prepared for STS-125, the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. The completion of STS-122 leaves ten flights remaining in the Space Shuttle program until its end in 2010, excluding two as-yet-unconfirmed Contingency Logistic Flights.
-Mitt Romney drops out of presidential race leaving McCain as the front runner.
-Shaquille O'Neal (Superman) is traded to the Phoenix Suns.
February 8, 2008, Release of the Fool's Gold.
Fool's Gold is an 2008 adventure/romance film from Warner Bros. Pictures about a married couple Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure.
February 9, 2008, Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present): Hollywood writers reach tentative agreement with the major movie studios.
February 13, 2008, Beagle (Snoopy/Underdog/Obama) becomes first of its breed to be named best in show.
February 14, 2008, St. Valentines Day
February 14, 2008, Release of Jumper
Jumper is a 2008 science fiction film from 20th Century Fox and New Regency Productions. The film is directed by Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and stars Hayden Christensen The Jumper and Samuel L. Jackson The Jumper Hunter.
Griffin explains to David about the Paladins; they are fanatical religious fundamentalists who believe that Jumpers are an affront to God. They have been hunting Jumpers for centuries - Griffin attributes the Inquisition and witch hunts to them. .
February 14, 2008, Spiderwick chronicles.
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the eponymous Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed.
The Field Guide was first published in 2003 and followed by four more novels, along with several companion books. A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, is also being written, with The Nixie's Song published in September 2007 and A Giant Problem in September 2008.
February 20, 2008, The United States Federal Reserve forecasts lower economic growth for the rest of the year with rising unemployment rates. (CNN)
-The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following the conclusion of the STS-122 assembly mission to the International Space Station.
February 21, 2008, The United States Navy shoots down USA 193, a spy satellite in a decaying orbit, over the Pacific Ocean.
February 22, 2008, The Northern Rock bank is formally nationalized by the British government.
February 22, 2008, Release of Vantage Point
Vantage Point is a 2008 American mystery thriller film from Columbia Pictures, written by Barry Levy and directed by Pete Travis. It stars Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker with Sigourney Weaver, Édgar Ramírez and William Hurt(Altered States). Vantage Point plot surrounds the view of 8 people during a attempted assassination on the president.
February 22, 2008, Release of Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 American comedy film from New Line Cinema, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover and Mia Farrow.
In Passaic, New Jersey, the declining "Be Kind Rewind" VHS rental store owned by Mr. Fletcher is due to be demolished to make way for high-end development unless Mr. Fletcher can find the money to repair his building, despite his claims that jazz pianist Fats Waller was born in that building. Mr. Fletcher decides to take several days to spy on successful DVD rental stores, leaving his only employee, Mike , to tend to the store, cautioning his to keep Mike's paranoid and klutzy friend, Jerry, away. Jerry becomes magnetized after attempting to disable a nearby electrical substation, believing its energy to be melting his brain, and when Jerry enters the store the next day, he inadvertently erases all the VHS tapes.
March
is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of the seven months which are 31 days long.
March in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Northern Hemisphere.
The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season. January became the first month of the calendar year either under King Numa Pompilius (circa 713 B.C.) or under the Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers differ).
March 4, 2008, United States presidential election, Super Tuesday II:
Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Vermont, Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio Republican primaries, giving him enough delegates to be able to win the Republican Party nomination.
March 7, 2008, Release of 10,000 B.C
10,000 BC is a 2008 epic American film from Warner Bros. Pictures set in the prehistoric era, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Steven Strait and Camilla Belle.
March 11, 2008, The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center carrying the crew of STS-123, the Japanese Experiment Module, and Dextre. The ship will rendezvous with the International Space Station.
March 14, 2008, United States investment bank Bear Stearns gets emergency funding from JPMorgan Chase, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's backing.
March 14, 2008, Release of Doomsday.
Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus emerges in London, political leaders send Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a cure based on evidence of survivors. Sinclair and her team run into two groups of survivors, marauders and medieval warriors. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on his vision of a futuristic soldier facing a medieval knight. In producing the film, he drew from various cinema, including Mad Max, Escape from New York, and other post-apocalyptic films.
March 14, 2008, Release of Horton Hears a Who
In the Jungle of Nool, a caring, imaginative elephant named Horton, the jungle's nature teacher, takes a dip in the pool. A dust speck floats past him in the air, and he hears a tiny yelp coming from it. Believing that an entire family of microscopic creatures are living on that speck, he places it on top of a clover that he holds in his trunk.
March 15, 2008, Saint Patrick's Day
March 16, 2008, JPMorgan Chase announces plans to buy investment bank Bear Stearns for $2 a share following liquidity problems caused by the crisis. The U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes a lender to twenty large investment banks, backs JPMorgan Chase in purchasing failed Bear Stearns, and lowers direct lending rate.
March 17, 2008, World stock markets decline sharply after the proposed sale of investment bank Bear Stearns to rival JPMorgan Chase. The United States dollar reaches a new record low against the euro, while petroleum price climbs to a new high.
March 17, 2008, David Paterson is sworn in as the new Governor of New York after the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
March 20, 2008, Unrest in Tibet: The Xinhua news agency reports for the first time that protests have spread to neighbouring provinces of Sichuan and Gansu as the Chinese authorities attempt to regain control. The Dalai Lama offers to meet with senior Chinese officials including the President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao. China dispatches convoys to Tibet consisting of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of police vehicles.
March 24, 2008, The United States Department of Justice approves the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio.
-The Olympic Flame of the 2008 Summer Olympics is lit in Olympia, despite disruption by three protesters from Reporters Without Borders.
March 26, 2008, The Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Cape Canaveral, Florida in a rare nighttime landing ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
March 26, 2008, Ford Motor Company announces it will sell its British luxury-car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata Motors for $2.3 billion.
February 2, 2008, Ground Hogs Day.
February 3, 2008, Super Bowl XLII: The New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots 17-14 in Glendale, Arizona at University of Phoenix Stadium home of the Arizona Cardinals.
The New York Giants also resonates the Nephilim in GeneISIS of the Bible. Also during the Halftime show Tom Petty and the HEARTBREAKERS played a line up consisting of
American Girl
I Wont Back Down
Free Fallin
Running on a Dream
After they opened the Stargate (Galactic center/Ophiuchus) Via Sagittarius and Scorpio (Phallic and the Vulva), symbolizing birth.
February 5, 2008, Super Tuesday Voters in 24 states go to the polls to determine presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties.
February 7, 2008, The United States Congress approves a $168 billion economic stimulus package and sends it to President George W. Bush for his approval.
-Space Shuttle Atlantis launches successfully on its STS-122 mission.
The mission was also referred to as ISS-1E by the ISS program. The primary objective of STS-122 was to deliver the European Columbus science laboratory, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), to the station. It also returned Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Daniel M. Tani to Earth. Tani was replaced on Expedition 16 by Léopold Eyharts, a French Flight Engineer representing ESA. After Atlantis' landing, the orbiter will be prepared for STS-125, the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. The completion of STS-122 leaves ten flights remaining in the Space Shuttle program until its end in 2010, excluding two as-yet-unconfirmed Contingency Logistic Flights.
-Mitt Romney drops out of presidential race leaving McCain as the front runner.
-Shaquille O'Neal (Superman) is traded to the Phoenix Suns.
February 8, 2008, Release of the Fool's Gold.
Fool's Gold is an 2008 adventure/romance film from Warner Bros. Pictures about a married couple Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure.
February 9, 2008, Writers Guild of America strike (2007–present): Hollywood writers reach tentative agreement with the major movie studios.
February 13, 2008, Beagle (Snoopy/Underdog/Obama) becomes first of its breed to be named best in show.
February 14, 2008, St. Valentines Day
February 14, 2008, Release of Jumper
Jumper is a 2008 science fiction film from 20th Century Fox and New Regency Productions. The film is directed by Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and stars Hayden Christensen The Jumper and Samuel L. Jackson The Jumper Hunter.
Griffin explains to David about the Paladins; they are fanatical religious fundamentalists who believe that Jumpers are an affront to God. They have been hunting Jumpers for centuries - Griffin attributes the Inquisition and witch hunts to them. .
February 14, 2008, Spiderwick chronicles.
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the eponymous Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed.
The Field Guide was first published in 2003 and followed by four more novels, along with several companion books. A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, is also being written, with The Nixie's Song published in September 2007 and A Giant Problem in September 2008.
February 20, 2008, The United States Federal Reserve forecasts lower economic growth for the rest of the year with rising unemployment rates. (CNN)
-The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following the conclusion of the STS-122 assembly mission to the International Space Station.
February 21, 2008, The United States Navy shoots down USA 193, a spy satellite in a decaying orbit, over the Pacific Ocean.
February 22, 2008, The Northern Rock bank is formally nationalized by the British government.
February 22, 2008, Release of Vantage Point
Vantage Point is a 2008 American mystery thriller film from Columbia Pictures, written by Barry Levy and directed by Pete Travis. It stars Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker with Sigourney Weaver, Édgar Ramírez and William Hurt(Altered States). Vantage Point plot surrounds the view of 8 people during a attempted assassination on the president.
February 22, 2008, Release of Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 American comedy film from New Line Cinema, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover and Mia Farrow.
In Passaic, New Jersey, the declining "Be Kind Rewind" VHS rental store owned by Mr. Fletcher is due to be demolished to make way for high-end development unless Mr. Fletcher can find the money to repair his building, despite his claims that jazz pianist Fats Waller was born in that building. Mr. Fletcher decides to take several days to spy on successful DVD rental stores, leaving his only employee, Mike , to tend to the store, cautioning his to keep Mike's paranoid and klutzy friend, Jerry, away. Jerry becomes magnetized after attempting to disable a nearby electrical substation, believing its energy to be melting his brain, and when Jerry enters the store the next day, he inadvertently erases all the VHS tapes.
March
is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of the seven months which are 31 days long.
March in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Northern Hemisphere.
The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war. In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring, a logical point for the beginning of the year as well as the start of the military campaign season. January became the first month of the calendar year either under King Numa Pompilius (circa 713 B.C.) or under the Decemvirs about 450 BC (Roman writers differ).
March 4, 2008, United States presidential election, Super Tuesday II:
Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Vermont, Texas, Rhode Island, and Ohio Republican primaries, giving him enough delegates to be able to win the Republican Party nomination.
March 7, 2008, Release of 10,000 B.C
10,000 BC is a 2008 epic American film from Warner Bros. Pictures set in the prehistoric era, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Steven Strait and Camilla Belle.
March 11, 2008, The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center carrying the crew of STS-123, the Japanese Experiment Module, and Dextre. The ship will rendezvous with the International Space Station.
March 14, 2008, United States investment bank Bear Stearns gets emergency funding from JPMorgan Chase, with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's backing.
March 14, 2008, Release of Doomsday.
Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus emerges in London, political leaders send Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a cure based on evidence of survivors. Sinclair and her team run into two groups of survivors, marauders and medieval warriors. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on his vision of a futuristic soldier facing a medieval knight. In producing the film, he drew from various cinema, including Mad Max, Escape from New York, and other post-apocalyptic films.
March 14, 2008, Release of Horton Hears a Who
In the Jungle of Nool, a caring, imaginative elephant named Horton, the jungle's nature teacher, takes a dip in the pool. A dust speck floats past him in the air, and he hears a tiny yelp coming from it. Believing that an entire family of microscopic creatures are living on that speck, he places it on top of a clover that he holds in his trunk.
March 15, 2008, Saint Patrick's Day
March 16, 2008, JPMorgan Chase announces plans to buy investment bank Bear Stearns for $2 a share following liquidity problems caused by the crisis. The U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes a lender to twenty large investment banks, backs JPMorgan Chase in purchasing failed Bear Stearns, and lowers direct lending rate.
March 17, 2008, World stock markets decline sharply after the proposed sale of investment bank Bear Stearns to rival JPMorgan Chase. The United States dollar reaches a new record low against the euro, while petroleum price climbs to a new high.
March 17, 2008, David Paterson is sworn in as the new Governor of New York after the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.
March 20, 2008, Unrest in Tibet: The Xinhua news agency reports for the first time that protests have spread to neighbouring provinces of Sichuan and Gansu as the Chinese authorities attempt to regain control. The Dalai Lama offers to meet with senior Chinese officials including the President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao. China dispatches convoys to Tibet consisting of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of police vehicles.
March 24, 2008, The United States Department of Justice approves the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio.
-The Olympic Flame of the 2008 Summer Olympics is lit in Olympia, despite disruption by three protesters from Reporters Without Borders.
March 26, 2008, The Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Cape Canaveral, Florida in a rare nighttime landing ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
March 26, 2008, Ford Motor Company announces it will sell its British luxury-car brands Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata Motors for $2.3 billion.
Have to read it over Chrimbo. Nice idea
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