The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

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

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

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

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

American Samoa has a total of 241 km of highways ( estimated in 2008 ).

* 1915 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach ( d. 2008 )

* 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( b. 1939 )

* 2008 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter ( The Tarriers and The Rooftop Singers ) ( b. 1933 )

* 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1979 – Sean Costello, American singer and musician ( d. 2008 )

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* Adrian Kantrowitz ( 1918 – 2008 ), American cardiac surgeon

* 1945 – Gene Upshaw, American football player ( d. 2008 )

The American Stock Exchange merged with the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE Euronext ) on October 1, 2008.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1939 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Judy Grable, American wrestler ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Robert Mulligan, American director ( d. 2008 )

* 1915 – Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

* Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 2-April 13, 2008

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

In the February 2008 issue of its publication, AAP Grand Rounds, the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that a low-additive diet is a valid intervention for children with ADHD:

He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

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It was included in many 2008 " best of " lists, and received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress by lead Anne Hathaway.

The same production opened in the US at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2008, moving to Broadway ( Lyceum Theatre ) after a sold-out run.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich 2008 ISBN 978-0-89733-576-8, Academy Chicago Publishers

A 2008 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that a nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

A second conference was held from 6 – 8 November 2008 by the Pontifical Academy of Life.

Encounters at the End of the World won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Herzog's first nomination.

In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River ( 2003 ) and Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling ( 2008 ).

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

* 2008: Articulations, Royal Irish Academy

In 2008, he won the gold medal in architecture from the Academy of Arts and Letters and his work Jesolo Lido Village was awarded the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for commissioning a building.

* Episcopal Academy Chapel ; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania ( 2008 )

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.