On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.

* 2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.

In October 2008, the United States Department of Justice defined an Alford plea as: " when a the defendant maintains his or her innocence with respect to the charge to which he or she offers to plead guilty ".

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, who operated AMPS networks in Canada, announced that they would observe the same timetable as outlined by the FCC in the United States, and as a result would not begin to dismantle their AMPS networks until after February 2008.

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

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Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

Kosovo, administrated by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo since 1999, declared independence in 2008.

The United States produced in 2010, and the UK in 2008.

* Red Bull Cola has been available in the United States since 2008.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.

Dachshunds are one of the most popular pets in the United States, ranking seventh in the 2008 AKC registration statistics.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

The original 1952 recording of A Child's Christmas in Wales was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry, stating that it is " credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States ".

Devo played dates in the United States, Japan, Australia, France, and Spain in the summer of 2008.

Indeed, the use of derivatives to conceal credit risk from third parties while protecting derivative counterparties contributed to the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Since 2008 the United States has charged at least 57 defendants for attempting to spy for China.

Food prices rose 4 % in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008.

Hong Kong 41 %, Metropolitan France 20 %, Japan 14 %, United States 8 % ( 2008 )

Metropolitan France 30 %, Singapore 14 %, United States 10 %, China 7 %, New Zealand 6 %, Australia 3 % ( 2008 )

* 2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam.

* 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves 57 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* 2008 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

" Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties ," Florida Historical Quarterly, Fall 2008, Vol.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

In 2008, 322 million passengers used the Swiss Federal Railways.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

On 14 February 2008, the Federal Labor Government appointed Bracks to head an inquiry into the ongoing viability of the Australian car industry.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

** W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant ( d. 2008 )

The first months of 2008 was a particularly troublesome period which caused Federal Reserve chairman Benjamin Bernanke to " work holidays and weekends " and which did an " extraordinary series of moves.

* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, " Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective ", Conference Series 53, June 9 – 11, 2008, Chatham, Massachusetts.

Federal officials started a flood in the Grand Canyon in hopes of restoring its ecosystem on March 5, 2008.

A series of " bailout " packages, including the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, proposed and implemented by the Federal Reserve and U. S. Treasury, as well as FDIC-sponsored bank mergers, did not prevent further losses.

The first U. S. Government interagency graduate was John Riodan, of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), who attended the AMSP in 2007 – 2008 ; the first Federal Bureau of Investigation student, Special Agent Danny Day, attended the AOASF beginning in 2009.

In response, the Federal Reserve decided to continue cutting interest rates, down to a near-zero range as of December 16, 2008.

Schakel, Arjan H. ( 2008 ), ' Validation of the Regional Authority Index ', Regional and Federal Studies, Routeledge, Vol.

* Golland, David Hamilton, " Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956 – 1973 " ( PhD dissertation City University of New York, 2008 ).

Federal Medicaid outlays were estimated to be $ 204 billion in 2008.

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.