June 20, 2008, Release of Get Smart
June 20, 2008, Release of the Love Guru
June 20, 2008, After white patches uncovered by digging from the Phoenix lander are found to have sublimated by the lander's cameras, NASA believes it has found water ice on Mars.
June 21, 2008, Summer solstice
June 20, 2008, Release of the Love Guru
June 20, 2008, After white patches uncovered by digging from the Phoenix lander are found to have sublimated by the lander's cameras, NASA believes it has found water ice on Mars.
June 21, 2008, Summer solstice
June, 23rd, 2008, The European Union agrees to new sanctions against Iran including a freeze on the assets of Bank Melli, Iran's largest bank, over the refusal to curb its nuclear program.
June 24, 2008, Plans are unveiled for the world's first swirling skyscraper in Dubai, with each floor rotating up to once an hour to form an ever-changing profile on the skyline.
June 24, 2008, Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says the country is in the grip of a recession for the first time in a quarter of a century. However, it predicts the economy will return to positive growth in 2009 and normal growth by 2010.
June 24, 2008, Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says the country is in the grip of a recession for the first time in a quarter of a century. However, it predicts the economy will return to positive growth in 2009 and normal growth by 2010.
June 26, 2008, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) relaxes rules on the creation of top-level domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web. Icann also approves measures that will allow top-level domain names to be written in scripts such as Arabic or Cyrillic.
June 26, 2008, North Korea releases details of its nuclear program and the United States removes it from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
June 26, 2008, North Korea releases details of its nuclear program and the United States removes it from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
June 27, 2008, Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, finishes work at the company before starting fulltime philanthropic work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
June 27, 2008, Release of Wall-E
June 27, 2008, Release of Wanted
June 29, 2008, Michael Phelps set world records for the 400-meter individual medley at the United States Olympics swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska.
June 29, 2008, Two medical helicopters collide in Flagstaff, Arizona near Phoenix, resulting in seven deaths and three people being critically injured.
June 27, 2008, Release of Wall-E
June 27, 2008, Release of Wanted
June 29, 2008, Michael Phelps set world records for the 400-meter individual medley at the United States Olympics swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska.
June 29, 2008, Two medical helicopters collide in Flagstaff, Arizona near Phoenix, resulting in seven deaths and three people being critically injured.
June 30, 2008, Chrysler announces that it will indefinitely close a minivan plant in South St. Louis, Missouri and cut production at another due to falling demand for large vehicles.
July
is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere.
July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January became the first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC. In the ancient Roman calendar the ides of July fell on the 15th day of the month.
In the Northern hemisphere: Dog days begin in early July, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts.
July 1, 2008, Series Premiere of The Secret Life of the American Teenager
July 1, 2008, Starbucks announces that it will close 600 underperforming coffee shops in the United States.
July 2, 2008, Release of Hancock
July 3, 3008, NASA announces discovery of water in the atmosphere of Mercury by its MESSENGER probe
July 3, 3008, Actor of Bozo the Clown Larry Harmon dies.
July
is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere.
July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January became the first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC. In the ancient Roman calendar the ides of July fell on the 15th day of the month.
In the Northern hemisphere: Dog days begin in early July, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts.
July 1, 2008, Series Premiere of The Secret Life of the American Teenager
July 1, 2008, Starbucks announces that it will close 600 underperforming coffee shops in the United States.
July 2, 2008, Release of Hancock
July 3, 3008, NASA announces discovery of water in the atmosphere of Mercury by its MESSENGER probe
July 3, 3008, Actor of Bozo the Clown Larry Harmon dies.
July 4, 2008, Independence Day
July 5, 2008, Venus Williams defeats sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships Ladies' Final.
July 6, 2008, World leaders arrive in Japan for the G8 summit to be held in Tōyako, Hokkaidō.
June 8, 2008, The United States and the Czech Republic sign an initial agreement to base a United States missile defense system in the Czech Republic.
June 8, 2008, The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad indicates that he does not expect an attack by the United States or Israel because he considers George W. Bush to be a lame duck president.
June 8, 2008, Leaders of the G8 nations meeting at the 34th G8 summit in Japan agree to a target of cutting world greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050.
July 11, 2008, Release of August.
July 11, 2008, Release of HellBoy II.
July 11, 2008, Release of Journey to the Center of Earth.
July 11, 2008, Release of Meet Dave.
July 11, 2008, Release of Garden Party
July 11, 2008, Series Premiere of Flashpoint
July 11, 2008, Chinese restaurants in Beijing are told not to serve dog meat during 2008 Summer Olympics, but can continue to serve Donkey meat.
June 8, 2008, The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad indicates that he does not expect an attack by the United States or Israel because he considers George W. Bush to be a lame duck president.
June 8, 2008, Leaders of the G8 nations meeting at the 34th G8 summit in Japan agree to a target of cutting world greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050.
July 11, 2008, Release of August.
July 11, 2008, Release of HellBoy II.
July 11, 2008, Release of Journey to the Center of Earth.
July 11, 2008, Release of Meet Dave.
July 11, 2008, Release of Garden Party
July 11, 2008, Series Premiere of Flashpoint
July 11, 2008, Chinese restaurants in Beijing are told not to serve dog meat during 2008 Summer Olympics, but can continue to serve Donkey meat.
July 13, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Sydney, Australia for World Youth Day 2008 celebrations.
July 13, 2008, Series Premiere of Generation Kill
July 13, 2008, The U.S. federal government's Office of Thrift Supervision closes down the IndyMac Bank, the largest savings and loan bank in the Los Angeles area, after determining that it is unlikely to be able to meet depositors' demands.
July 14, 2008, The United States Federal Reserve tightens mortgage regulation in an attempt to stamp out the practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
July 14, 2008, United States President George W. Bush lifts a ban on offshore oil drilling.
July 14, 2008, Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev buys St. Louis, Missouri-based Anheuser-Busch for US$52 billion.
July 15, 2008, General Motors announces plans to suspend its dividend, sell off assets and cut 20% off salaried costs in a response to slumping car sales.
July 16, 2008, Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, assures the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee that giant mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in "no danger of failing."
July 17, 2008, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifts a warning on tomatoes following a recent salmonellosis outbreak.
July 18, 2008, Release of Dark Knight
July 18, 2008, Release of Space Chimps
July 18, 2008, Release of Mamma Mia
July 19, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to victims of abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy in Australia during a mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney for World Youth Day 2008.
July 13, 2008, Series Premiere of Generation Kill
July 13, 2008, The U.S. federal government's Office of Thrift Supervision closes down the IndyMac Bank, the largest savings and loan bank in the Los Angeles area, after determining that it is unlikely to be able to meet depositors' demands.
July 14, 2008, The United States Federal Reserve tightens mortgage regulation in an attempt to stamp out the practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
July 14, 2008, United States President George W. Bush lifts a ban on offshore oil drilling.
July 14, 2008, Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev buys St. Louis, Missouri-based Anheuser-Busch for US$52 billion.
July 15, 2008, General Motors announces plans to suspend its dividend, sell off assets and cut 20% off salaried costs in a response to slumping car sales.
July 16, 2008, Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, assures the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee that giant mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in "no danger of failing."
July 17, 2008, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifts a warning on tomatoes following a recent salmonellosis outbreak.
July 18, 2008, Release of Dark Knight
July 18, 2008, Release of Space Chimps
July 18, 2008, Release of Mamma Mia
July 19, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to victims of abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy in Australia during a mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney for World Youth Day 2008.
July 20, 2008, The Dark Knight sets a new record for box office receipts for an opening weekend in the United States with US$158.4 million earned between Friday and Sunday.
July 20, 2008, 500,000 people attend the closing mass of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, who announces Madrid as the host city for the next World Youth Day in 2011.
July 20, 2008, 500,000 people attend the closing mass of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, who announces Madrid as the host city for the next World Youth Day in 2011.
July 21, 2008, The United States Food and Drug Administration finds the same salmonella strain responsible for the 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak in Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers.
July 21, 2008, The first terrorism trial of a Guantanamo Bay inmate begins with Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty.
July 21, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI holds a special mass in Sydney for victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy.
July 21, 2008, The first terrorism trial of a Guantanamo Bay inmate begins with Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty.
July 21, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI holds a special mass in Sydney for victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Church clergy.
July 24, 2008, Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the United States presidential election, 2008 speaks to 200,000 people in Berlin's Tiergarten.
July 24, 2008, Max Mosley, head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, wins his privacy case against the News of the World, after the paper alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed BDSM orgy.
July 25, 2008, Release of X-Files I want to Believe
July 25, 2008, Release of Step Brothers
July 25, 2008, Release of Brideshead Revisited
July 25, 2008, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) presents the articles for the impeachment of President George W. Bush to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
July 25, 2008, Google announces that it has indexed over 1 trillion unique web pages.
July, 29, 2008, 22 year old Tim McLean is murdered and decapitated on a greyhoundbus headed towards Winnipeg, Manitoba, Galactic Center.
July 30, 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush signs The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 in response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
July 30, 2008, NASA confirms liquid lake on Titan.
July 31, 2008, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger acts to end a budget crisis by firing 22,000 California state workers and cutting the pay of 200,000 more.
July 31, 2008, NASA announces discovery of water on Mars.
August
is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days. This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus.
August 1, 2008, Release of The Mummy: Dragon Emperor
August 1, 2008, Release of Swing Vote
August 1, 2008, Unemployment in the United States rises to 5.7 per cent, its highest rate in more than four years.
August 1, 2008, U.S. government officials conclude that elements of Pakistan's intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, aided militants in the July 7 suicide car bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The government of Pakistan denied involvement.
August 1, 2008, A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada (Nunavut), Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China.
August 2, 2008, Two climbers from an international expedition perish after ice fall on K2 mountain in the Himalayas, and six members of the team have gone missing.
July 24, 2008, Max Mosley, head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, wins his privacy case against the News of the World, after the paper alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed BDSM orgy.
July 25, 2008, Release of X-Files I want to Believe
July 25, 2008, Release of Step Brothers
July 25, 2008, Release of Brideshead Revisited
July 25, 2008, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) presents the articles for the impeachment of President George W. Bush to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
July 25, 2008, Google announces that it has indexed over 1 trillion unique web pages.
July, 29, 2008, 22 year old Tim McLean is murdered and decapitated on a greyhoundbus headed towards Winnipeg, Manitoba, Galactic Center.
July 30, 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush signs The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 in response to the subprime mortgage crisis.
July 30, 2008, NASA confirms liquid lake on Titan.
July 31, 2008, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger acts to end a budget crisis by firing 22,000 California state workers and cutting the pay of 200,000 more.
July 31, 2008, NASA announces discovery of water on Mars.
August
is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days. This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year. About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus.
August 1, 2008, Release of The Mummy: Dragon Emperor
August 1, 2008, Release of Swing Vote
August 1, 2008, Unemployment in the United States rises to 5.7 per cent, its highest rate in more than four years.
August 1, 2008, U.S. government officials conclude that elements of Pakistan's intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, aided militants in the July 7 suicide car bomb attack on India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The government of Pakistan denied involvement.
August 1, 2008, A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada (Nunavut), Greenland, central Russia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and China.
August 2, 2008, Two climbers from an international expedition perish after ice fall on K2 mountain in the Himalayas, and six members of the team have gone missing.
August 3, 2008, The third launch of privately developed SpaceX launcher Falcon 1 fails to reach orbit.
August 4, 2008, Eleven climbers from an international expedition are reported dead after ice fall took out the fixed ropes on part of the route on K2 mountain in the Himalayas
August 6, 2008, Release of Pineapple Express
August 6, 2008, Release of The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants 2
August 6, 2008, The United States FBI claims scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax scares of 2001 that killed five people and made 17 others ill.
August 7, 2008, The 2008 South Ossetia war begins, as Georgia and Russia launch a major offensive inside the separatist region of South Ossetia after days of border skirmishes between the two sides.
August 7, 2008, Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes.
August 7, 2008, The New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reaches a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup to buy back auction rate securities from about 40,000 clients throughout the United States.
August 7, 2008, Claims for unemployment benefits in the United States rise to 455,000, the highest level since March 2002.
August 8, 2008, Release of Beer for My Horses
August 8, 2008, Release of What We Do is Scret
August 8, 2008, Beginning of 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
August 6, 2008, Release of Pineapple Express
August 6, 2008, Release of The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants 2
August 6, 2008, The United States FBI claims scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax scares of 2001 that killed five people and made 17 others ill.
August 7, 2008, The 2008 South Ossetia war begins, as Georgia and Russia launch a major offensive inside the separatist region of South Ossetia after days of border skirmishes between the two sides.
August 7, 2008, Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, is sentenced to 66 months in prison for war crimes.
August 7, 2008, The New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reaches a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup to buy back auction rate securities from about 40,000 clients throughout the United States.
August 7, 2008, Claims for unemployment benefits in the United States rise to 455,000, the highest level since March 2002.
August 8, 2008, Release of Beer for My Horses
August 8, 2008, Release of What We Do is Scret
August 8, 2008, Beginning of 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
August 14, 2008, Release of the Star Wars Clone Wars
August 15, 2008, Release of Tropic Thunder.
August 15, 2008, Release of Mirrors
August 15, 2008, Release of Fly Me to The Moon
August 15, 2008, Release of Vicki Christina Barcelona
August 16, 2008, Usain Bolt Sets World Record In 100-Meter Olympic Final
August 17, 2008, Michael Phelps wins his world record 8th gold medal.
August 20, 2008, Release of The Rocker
August 20, 2008, Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport with 172 on board. Of them, 154 die and 18 survive
August 21, 2008, Somali pirates captured a total of three vessels in two days.
August 20, 2008, Release of The Rocker
August 20, 2008, Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport with 172 on board. Of them, 154 die and 18 survive
August 21, 2008, Somali pirates captured a total of three vessels in two days.
August 22, 2008, Release of The House Bunny
August 22, 2008, Release of Death Race
August 22, 2008, Release of The Longshots
August 22, 2008, Release of Hamlet 2
August 22, 2008, Pirates hijack German, Iranian, and Japanese cargo ships off the coast of Somalia, in 7 such attacks since June 20.
August 24, 2008, Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
August 26, 2008, Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
August 26, 2008, Hurricane Gustav makes landfall on Louisiana as Category 2 and kills 7 in the United States, after making landfall on western Cuba as Category 4, and killing 66 in Haiti, 8 in the Dominican Republic, and 11 in Jamaica.
August 26, 2008, Hurricane Hanna kills 7 in the United States, and 529 in Haiti, mostly due to deluges and mudslides.
August 27, 2008, Release of Traitor
August 28, 2008, U.S. presidential election: Democratic National Convention. Illinois Senator Barack Obama accepts the nomination of the Democratic Party at the INVESCO Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party for election as President of the United States.
August 29th, 2008, Release of Babylon A.D.
August 29th, 2008, Release of Disaster Movie
August 29th, 2008, Release of College
August 29, 2008, In Dayton, Ohio, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced that he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate.
August 22, 2008, Release of Death Race
August 22, 2008, Release of The Longshots
August 22, 2008, Release of Hamlet 2
August 22, 2008, Pirates hijack German, Iranian, and Japanese cargo ships off the coast of Somalia, in 7 such attacks since June 20.
August 24, 2008, Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
August 26, 2008, Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
August 26, 2008, Hurricane Gustav makes landfall on Louisiana as Category 2 and kills 7 in the United States, after making landfall on western Cuba as Category 4, and killing 66 in Haiti, 8 in the Dominican Republic, and 11 in Jamaica.
August 26, 2008, Hurricane Hanna kills 7 in the United States, and 529 in Haiti, mostly due to deluges and mudslides.
August 27, 2008, Release of Traitor
August 28, 2008, U.S. presidential election: Democratic National Convention. Illinois Senator Barack Obama accepts the nomination of the Democratic Party at the INVESCO Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party for election as President of the United States.
August 29th, 2008, Release of Babylon A.D.
August 29th, 2008, Release of College
August 29, 2008, In Dayton, Ohio, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced that he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate.
August 31, 2008, Hurricane Gustav: New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin orders the mandatory evacuation of the city ahead of Gustav. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney cancel visits to the 2008 Republican National Convention due to Gustav.
September
is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days.
In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius (1 March) to Kalendas Januarius (1 January). In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is 1 September.
September marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
September 1, 2008, Series Premiere of Raising The Bar
September 1, 2008, U.S. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter Bristol is revealed to be five months pregnant.
September 2, 2008, Series Premiere of 90210
September 3, 2008, Series Premiere of Sons of Anarchy
September 4, 2008, Senator John McCain officially accepts the nomination of the Republican Party in the United States presidential election, 2008.
September 5, 2008, Release of Bangkok Dangerous
September 5, 2008, La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider, starts to roam the streets of Liverpool, England, as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations.
September 5, 2008, The unemployment rate in the United States rises to its highest level since December 2003 after the US economy loses 84,000 jobs in August 2008.
September 5, 2008, The European Union's Rosetta spacecraft performs a flyby of the asteroid 2867 Steins.
September 6, 2008, Tropical Storm Hanna makes landfall in the United States on the border between North Carolina and South Carolina.
September 7, 2008, Series Premiere of True Blood
September 7, 2008, James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being placed into conservatorship of the FHFA.
September 8, 2008, Season 2 Premiere of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
September 9, 2008, Series Premiere of Privileged
September 9, 2008, Apple Inc. unveils the revamped iPod line-up including the redesigned, fourth-generation iPod Nano.
September 9, 2008, Series Premiere of Privileged
September 9, 2008, Apple Inc. unveils the revamped iPod line-up including the redesigned, fourth-generation iPod Nano.
September 10, 2008, Series Premiere of Do Not Disturb
September 10, 2008, The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and the highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.
September 10, 2008, United States presidential election, 2008: Former Republican candidate Ron Paul endorses third-party candidates Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader, calling the two-party system a "charade."
September 10, 2008, OPEC announces it will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day; prices rise accordingly.
September 11, 2008,The Pentagon Memorial in Washington, DC, dedicated to the 184 people who died in the attack on the building on September 11, 2001, is opened to the public.
September 12, 2008, Release of Burn After Reading
September 12, 2008, Release of Righteous Kill
September 12, 2008, Release of The Women
September 12, 2008, Release of The Family That Preys
September 12, 2008, Release of Towelhead
September 12, 2008, Release of Proud American
September 12, 2008, Release of Death Magnetic Album by Metallica
September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike: Hurricane Ike makes landfall in the United States at Galveston, Texas, as a Category 2 hurricane.
September 15, 2008, Global financial crisis: Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy protection, in the largest bankruptcy in United States history.
September 16, 2008, The Federal Reserve Bank's Board of Governors announced that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had been authorized to create a 24-month credit-liquidity facility from which AIG may draw up to $85 billion.
September 16, 2008, Russia's most liquid stock exchange MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS suspend trade for one hour after the worst one-day fall in ten years as Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin reassured markets there was no "systemic" crisis.
September 17, 2008, Series Premiere of Fringe
September 17, 2008, The International Astronomical Union classifies Haumea as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System.
September 17, 2008, Trading is suspended for the second day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges (the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS) after shares fall dramatically, forcing the central bank in Moscow to intervene.
September 17, 2008, Russia's government lends the country's three biggest banks, Sberbank, VTB Bank and Gazprombank, as much as 1.13 trillion rubles ($44 billion) for at least three months to boost liquidity.
September 17, 2008, Trading is suspended for the second day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges (the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS) after shares fall dramatically, forcing the central bank in Moscow to intervene.
September 17, 2008, Russia's government lends the country's three biggest banks, Sberbank, VTB Bank and Gazprombank, as much as 1.13 trillion rubles ($44 billion) for at least three months to boost liquidity.
September 18, 2008, Trading is suspended for the third day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges, the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS, amidst fear of financial collapse. News agencies are quoting Russia's Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin, as saying trading on Russian exchanges won't resume until September 19.
September 18, 2008, Officials at MICEX stock exchange describe conditions in the Russian markets as "extraordinary".
September 18, 2008, Russia is facing its worst stock market decline in a decade mainly because of a confidence crisis rather than liquidity problems, Deputy Finance Minister Pyotr Kazakevich says.
September 18, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders ministers to inject another 500 billion rubles (£10.8 billion, US$20 billion) of funds from the state budget into the markets and pledges in remarks broadcast on national television that the financial system would receive "all necessary support".
September 18, 2008, British bank Lloyds TSB completes a £12.2bn takeover of rival HBOS, the UK's largest mortgage lender. The Competition Commission has allowed the deal as it has government backing, despite the fact that it will leave Lloyd's HBOS in control of a third of the UK mortgage market.
September 18, 2008, The Swedish National Debt Office announces it is putting a temporary hold on its market commitment in treasury bills due to the spike in demand for treasury bonds, which are seen as a safe investment during rocky periods in the financial markets.
September 18, 2008, Pirates hijack a Greek bulk carrier with 25 crew aboard off the coast of Somalia.
September 18, 2008, Officials at MICEX stock exchange describe conditions in the Russian markets as "extraordinary".
September 18, 2008, Russia is facing its worst stock market decline in a decade mainly because of a confidence crisis rather than liquidity problems, Deputy Finance Minister Pyotr Kazakevich says.
September 18, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders ministers to inject another 500 billion rubles (£10.8 billion, US$20 billion) of funds from the state budget into the markets and pledges in remarks broadcast on national television that the financial system would receive "all necessary support".
September 18, 2008, British bank Lloyds TSB completes a £12.2bn takeover of rival HBOS, the UK's largest mortgage lender. The Competition Commission has allowed the deal as it has government backing, despite the fact that it will leave Lloyd's HBOS in control of a third of the UK mortgage market.
September 18, 2008, The Swedish National Debt Office announces it is putting a temporary hold on its market commitment in treasury bills due to the spike in demand for treasury bonds, which are seen as a safe investment during rocky periods in the financial markets.
September 18, 2008, Pirates hijack a Greek bulk carrier with 25 crew aboard off the coast of Somalia.
September 19 , 2008, Release of Igor
September 19 , 2008, Release of Ghost Town
September 19 , 2008, Release of Lakeview Terrace
September 19 , 2008, Release of My Best Friend's Girl
September 19 , 2008, Release of The Duchess
September 19 , 2008, Release of Appaloosa
September 19 , 2008, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Kingdom Financial Services Authority take emergency action to temporarily ban short-selling of financial companies stock.
September 19 , 2008, The United States Department of the Treasury guarantees money market mutual funds up to an amount of $50 billion to guarantee their viability.
September 19 , 2008, The New York Stock Exchange responds positively to these initiatives with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 390 points.
September 19 , 2008, Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.
September 19 , 2008, Release of Ghost Town
September 19 , 2008, Release of Lakeview Terrace
September 19 , 2008, Release of My Best Friend's Girl
September 19 , 2008, Release of The Duchess
September 19 , 2008, Release of Appaloosa
September 19 , 2008, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Kingdom Financial Services Authority take emergency action to temporarily ban short-selling of financial companies stock.
September 19 , 2008, The United States Department of the Treasury guarantees money market mutual funds up to an amount of $50 billion to guarantee their viability.
September 19 , 2008, The New York Stock Exchange responds positively to these initiatives with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 390 points.
September 19 , 2008, Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.
September 20, 2008, Series Premiere of Merlin
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