The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* Río Parra, Elena del ( 2008 ).

* Pecados Ajenos ( USA, 2007 – 2008 ) as Elena Sandoval

* Laura Elena Zuniga Huizar, Miss Mexico 2008, Miss Latinoamericana 2008, supermodel

He is also the soloist with the North Carolina Symphony on April 10, 2008 of the world premier of Elena Kats-Chernin's " Ornamental Air ," in the form of a concerto for basset clarinet.

Petrova was a quarter-finalist at her home event, the 2008 Kremlin Cup in Moscow, beating teenager Caroline Wozniacki before losing to compatriot and third seed Elena Dementieva 6 – 4, 4 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 6 ).

Until Hurricane Paloma in 2008, Elena was the only Atlantic storm name that had been retired without causing any direct casualties.

Eight-time winners Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena celebrating the 2008 win.

At the 2008 Romanian legislative election, she was a Social Democratic candidate for a Bucharest seat in the Chamber of Deputies ; she lost to Elena Udrea.

Raymond began 2008 playing with Elena Likhovtseva with solid results but was cut short due to injury but then reunited with former partner Samantha Stosur in May, after the latter's return from injury.

At the 2008 Australian Open, Pe ' er was seeded No. 17, and lost in the third round to No. 11 seed Elena Dementieva.

* Born: Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player, in Moscow ; and Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver and Olympic gold medalist in 2004 and 2008 ; in Baoding, Hebei province

As part of Greensboro, North Carolina's bicentennial celebration, the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation commissioned sculptor Jim Barnhill, a city native and associate professor at NC A & T University, to create a bronze statue of Nathanael Greene which was dedicated on March 26, 2008.

* Haw, James, “‘ Every Thing Here Depends upon Opinion ’: Nathanael Greene and Public Support in the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution ,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 ( July 2008 ), 212 – 31.

On Palm Sunday, in April 2008, a brawl broke out when a Greek monk was ejected from the building by a rival faction.

On Sunday, November 9, 2008, a clash erupted between Armenian and Greek monks during celebrations for the Feast of the Cross.

* 2008 – The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.

Eurostat estimations as of January 2008 gave the number of 11, 214, 992 inhabitants in the Greek peninsula.

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

This famous statue of Hadrian in Greek dress was revealed in 2008 to have been forged in the Victorian era by cobbling together a head of Hadrian and an unknown body.

However, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, Greek government debt crisis, 2008 – 2012 Spanish financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, thinkers such as Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, and David McNally have given renewed impetus to the debate on whether Marx was right that capitalism inherently tends towards crisis ( which Marx discussed as the " contradictions of capital ").

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

* 1924 – Stavros Xenidis, Greek actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1952 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor ( d. 2008 )

After the southern, Greek speaking part of Cyprus became a member of the European Union in 2004, it adopted the Euro as its currency on January 1, 2008, replacing the previously used Cypriot Pound ; whilst the northern area continued to use the Turkish Lira and on January 1, 2008 the New Turkish Lira.

Government officials have backed down from a July 2008 deal to relocate the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, the only church destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

* McHardy, FIona, The ' trial by water ' in Greek myth and literature, LICS 7. 1 ( December 2008 ).

A replica of a Greek penteconter was completed in 2008, which was named Argo.

They have been treated or considered together for various purposes at different times: in the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 ; in a 2008 Council of Europe report ; and as a Metropolis of the Greek Orthodox church.

Panegyri Greek Festival in 2008.

A travelling exhibition of 20 coloured replicas of Greek and Roman works, alongside 35 original statues and reliefs, was held in Europe and the United States in 2008: Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts ( Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008 ).

In 2008, it was revealed that Siemens had bribed the two main political parties of Greece for approximately 10 years to be the sole provider of mechanical and electrical equipment of the Greek state.

A Greek adaptation was broadcast on ANT1 in 2007 and 2008.

* George Leonardos ( 1937-present ), journalist and author, awarded with the Greek State Literature Award 2008