2008

2008 is a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Years: 2005 2006 2007 - 2008 - 2009 2010 2011

Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century 2008 in rail transport

Contents

1 Predicted events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates

Predicted events

January

• January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the first of three flybys of Mercury.

February

• February 1 - Sweden plans to cease analog television broadcasts
• February 3 - Super Bowl XLII to be held in Glendale, Arizona.
• February 7 - Annular solar eclipse

March

• March 23 - Easter Sunday. Easter has not fallen this early since 1913.

April

• April 5 to April 7 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

May

• May 16 - Presidential election slated in the Dominican Republic.

June

• June - UEFA Euro 2008 Championship tournament. Joint hosts Switzerland and Austria

July

August

• August 1 - Total solar eclipse
• August 8 - 2008 Summer Olympics scheduled to begin in Beijing, China

September

• September 11 - Topping out of Freedom Tower at World Trade Center site

October

• October 6 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second of three flybys of Mercury.

November

• November 4 - Presidential election slated in the United States.
• November 26 - If still Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair will surpass Margaret Thatcher's length of time in office.

December

Australia plans to cease analogue television broadcasts.

Unknown dates

• 2008 European Football Championship (EURO 2008) scheduled to be held in Austria and Switzerland.
• Both Liverpool (England) and Stavanger (Norway) are European Capital of Culture
• Tentative year for the completion of the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the International Business Center in Seoul, South Korea
• Forecasted year of worldwide production decline in oil given by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
• Forecasted year of OPEC oil production exceeding non-OPEC oil production given by "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan