All Souls ' Day procession, Tucson, Arizona, 2008

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

An annual private media summit called Captivate, renamed from Gamers Day in 2008, is traditionally used as a platform for new game and business announcements.

On Domino Day 2008 ( November 14, 2008 ), the Weijers Domino Productions team attempted to set 10 records:

Day received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in Music in 2008, albeit again in absentia.

From the beginning of the 2008 – 09 season to New Year's Day, the Wings enjoyed success.

On Europe Day 2008, the flag was flown for the first time above the German Reichstag.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Kosovo in 2008, still under dispute.

This was more than double the 36, 696 accounts that logged a cache on Leap Day 2008.

In the United States, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar designated March 4 as National Grammar Day in 2008.

* Astronomy Picture of the Day, May 7, 2008

In August 2008, a Ukrainian M1114 HMMWV parades through the streets of downtown Kiev, during Ukranian Independence Day festivities.

IKEA has taken over title sponsorship of Philadelphia's annual Thanksgiving Day parade in 2008, replacing Boscov's, who filed for bankruptcy in August 2008.

Communist Party of Great Britain ( Marxist – Leninist ) contingent at London May Day march in 2008, carrying a banner of Stalin.

* Day of the Capital, established in 2008.

Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will. i. am's video " It's a New Day ", which was released following Barack Obama's 2008 presidential win.

* " Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail " by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs ( University of Nebraska Press, 2008 )

For example, Christmas Day fell on Saturday in 2004, Sunday in 2005, Monday in 2006 and Tuesday in 2007 but then " leapt " over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008.

Music festival on Liberation Day 2008 in Zwolle

In November 2008, Palin presented a First World War documentary about Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, when thousands of soldiers lost their lives in battle after the war had officially ended.

From Opening Day through July 26, 2009, the Phillies wore 2008 World Champions patches on the right sleeve of their home uniforms.

Crowe helped to organise a rugby league game that took place in Jacksonville, Florida between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the English Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008 ( Australia Day ).

* Heaven Earth ( 2008 ), directed by Rudolf Amaral and Harald Scherz.

Calderas on Earth are the smallest of all planetary bodies and vary from 1. 6 to 80 km as a maximum ( Gottsmann 2008 ).

In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.

* The Stolen Earth / Journey's End: June 28 – July 5, 2008

On 21 December 2008 the full moon occurred closer to the Earth than it has done at any time for the past 15 years.

However, the Daleks return in " Bad Wolf "/" The Parting of the Ways " ( 2005 ), and subsequently in " Army of Ghosts "/" Doomsday " ( 2006 ), " Daleks in Manhattan "/" Evolution of the Daleks " ( 2007 ), " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End " ( 2008 ) and " Victory of the Daleks " ( 2010 ), the penultimate of these being the series 4 finale where Davros also returns, and the final of these being the first time the Eleventh Doctor meets the Daleks.

* 2008 – Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.

In December 2008, the FDA gave a " no objection " approval for GRAS status to Truvia ( developed by Cargill and The Coca-Cola Company ) and PureVia ( developed by PepsiCo and the Whole Earth Sweetener Company, a subsidiary of Merisant ), both of which use rebaudioside A derived from the Stevia plant.

In early 2008, the Burnaby campus was again used for filming, this time for The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 2008 Remake ).

* Channel 4 ( UK ) documentary, Catastrophe: Snowball Earth episode 2 of 5, first screened Dec 2008, documentary narrated by Tony Robinson, advocates Snowball Earth and contains interviews with proponents.

In " The Runaway Bride " ( December 2006 ), " The Stolen Earth " ( 2008 ), and " The Beast Below ( 2010 )", however, the doors can be opened safely while the ship is in vacuum, as the TARDIS protects its occupants ( see the " Defences " section below ).

For instance, in 2008 a laboratory device which ejects and identifies particles found small amounts of the compound in the inside of volcanic rock brought from Moon to Earth by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.

# Series 4 ( 2008 ) episodes Partners In Crime, The Sontaran Strategem / The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth / Journey's End ; and Turn Left, ( which is set in a parallel universe ).

* WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film in which a distress signal is sent from Earth to all autopilots in 2110 saying that Earth's rising toxicity levels has made life unsustainable and that all the starliners should remain in space.

NASA footage including Grissom's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions was released in high definition on the Discovery Channel in June 2008 in the television series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

* February 15, 2008: Spaceship Earth reopens with new sets, narration by Judi Dench, soundtrack, and interactive ending

In 2008, Cosmos Magazine reported on research into creating an artificial replica of Earth ’ s magnetic field around a spacecraft to protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic rays.

First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth February 26, 2007 ; Last revised July 31, 2008 ; Retrieved September 5, 2008.

Given that Toutatis makes many close approaches the Earth, such as in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object.

In February 2009, Gabriel announced that he would not be performing on the 2008 Academy Awards telecast because producers of the show were limiting his performance of " Down to Earth " from WALL-E to 65 seconds.

On October 7, 2008, a meteroid labeled 2008 TC3 was tracked for 20 hours as it approached Earth and as it fell through the atmosphere and impacted in Sudan.