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January 20, 2008. Cloverfield. $40,058,229. Cloverfield broke Star Wars (Special Edition) ' s record ($35.9 million) for the highest weekend debut in January, Black Hawk Down ' s record ($28.6 million) for the highest Martin Luther King Jr. Day long-weekend debut, and Titanic ' s record ($30.0 million) for the highest Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the ...
Highest-grossing films of 2008 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 The Dark Knight: Warner Bros. $533,345,358 2 Iron Man: Paramount: $318,604,126 3
This is a list of English football transfers for the 2008 summer transfer window.Only moves featuring at least one Premier League or Championship club are listed.. The summer transfer window opened on 1 July 2008, although a few transfers took place prior to that date; although a carry-over from the winter 2007–08 transfer window, the first non-free non-loan move was completed on 5 February ...
8 –24 August – Malaysia competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. On August 17, Malaysian badminton player, Lee Chong Wei, won a silver medal at these Games. This was the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that Malaysia won a medal at an Olympic Games. [53]
January. 17 January – The number of people affected by norovirus stomach bug in the UK reaches an estimated 3 million. 18 January – Last working of Tower Colliery, the last deep mine in the South Wales Valleys. The official closure is on 25 January.
2009 →. The 2008 Buffalo Bills season was the 39th season for the team in the National Football League (NFL) and their 49th season overall. The team finished with a record of 7–9 for the third consecutive year. It started the season 5–1 before a 2–8 stretch to finish the season. After a 5–1 beginning to the season, starting ...
The women's marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 17 around an urban circuit specifically designed for the competition at Beijing, and finished in the Beijing National Stadium; it was, as of today, the last time in Summer Olympics history in which women's marathon route start and/or finish was located in the Olympic Stadium. [1]