* 2008 – A commercial bus carrying Vietnamese Catholics crashed off a bridge of U. S. 75 near Sherman, Texas killing 17.

* 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U. S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.

Caltech manages research expenditures of $ 270 million annually, 66th among all universities in the U. S. and 17th among private institutions without medical schools for 2008.

In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.

A study published in 2011 by the U. S. Department of Education found that " From 2000 to 2008, the percentage of undergraduates enrolled in at least one distance education class expanded from 8 percent to 20 percent, and the percentage enrolled in a distance education degree program increased from 2 percent to 4 percent.

The songs " Girl U Want " and " Through Being Cool " were released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band on August 19, 2008.

Since 2008, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators ( IABTI ) have sponsored a nationwide charity campaign in the U. S., building beeping Easter eggs every year for visually impaired children.

The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the 8th Circuit Court's decision by declining to hear the case in June 2008.

In autumn 2008, the Montana Lottery, one of only four U. S. states to legalize sports betting, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time.

In 2008, NIST eliminated several other FIPS code standards, including those for countries ( FIPS 10-4 ), U. S. states ( FIPS 5-2 ), and counties ( FIPS 6-4 ).

In 2008, a Pakistani religious leader issued a fatwā on President Asif Ali Zardari for " indecent gestures " toward Sarah Palin, U. S. Vice Presidential candidate.

It was named Money magazine's Best Place to Live in the U. S. in 2006, # 2 in 2008, and # 6 in 2010.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

In 2008, the U. S. Supreme Court overturned a Washington, D. C. law that required handguns to be locked or otherwise kept inoperative within the home, saying that this " makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense.

* Belize / Guatemala ICJ Compromis Signed at OAS in Washington, D. C. on 8 December 2008 and Compromis and Videos and U. S. Congratulations and U. K. Congratulations and Photographs and Compromis for Christmas of 8 December 2008 and Belize Leading Counsel of 19 December 2008

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

The Canadian and U. S. holdings were transferred to of NRDC Equity Partners ' portfolio company, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, as of the fall of 2008.

* The January 15, 2008, bombing of a U. S. Embassy vehicle in Beirut.

In the 2008 U. S. Women's Chess Championship, she lost by one second on time controls in a playoff with IM and WGM Anna Zatonskih.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

Retrieved on 12 November 2008.

* ANGOLA LIVRO BRANCO SOBRE AS ELEIÇÕES DE 2008. http :// www. kas. de / proj / home / pub / 8 / 2 / year-2009 / dokument_id-17396 / index. html

Angola's Parliamentary Elections in 2008.

A Country on its Way to One-Party-Democracy, KAS Auslandsinformationen 10 / 2008.

Following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in 2008, relations have improved.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

A literature review by Michael McCullough and Camile Farah, published in the Australian Dental Journal in 2008, focused on a possible connection between mouthwashes that contain alcohol, and an increased risk of oral cancer.

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 ).

2003, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ).

* George Starostin ( A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ).

* He is prominently featured in the 2008 film The Black Candle, directed by M. K.

Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.

* Davis, K. 2008.

Also, H & K developed the lightweight carbon fiber – reinforced G36 polymer assault rifle, the current ( 2008 ) service rifle of the Bundeswehr and numerous other military and police forces.

* 1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and author ( d. 2008 )

* Martin, W., Rische, J., Rische, K., & VanGordon, K. ( 2008 ).

* In 2008, composer and saxophonist T. K.

* August 1 – Frank K. Edmondson, American astronomer ( d. 2008 )

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

* Melville, Elinor G. K. A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico ( 2008 )

* Galotti, K. ( 2008 ).

There were theoretical indications as early as August 2008 that silicon CMOS will work down to − 233 ° C ( 40 K ).

On June 29, 2008, Baez performed on the Acoustic Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, U. K., playing out the final set to a packed audience.

In 2008 a new class ( layered oxypnictide superconductors ), for example LaOFeAs, were discovered that do not include copper .< ref > An oxypnictide of samarium seems to have a T < sub > c </ sub > of about 43 K which is higher than predicted by BCS theory.

The language is now near extinction ; during the filming of Ironbound Films ' 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded one of the last remaining 3 speakers.

Piotroski and Srinivasan ( 2008 ) examine a comprehensive sample of international companies that list onto U. S. and U. K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002.

A research study published by Joseph Piotroski of Stanford University and Suraj Srinivasan of Harvard Business School titled " Regulation and Bonding: Sarbanes Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings " in the Journal of Accounting Research in 2008 found that following the act's passage, smaller international companies were more likely to list in stock exchanges in the U. K. rather than U. S. stock exchanges.

* Belize / Guatemala ICJ Compromis Signed at OAS in Washington, D. C. on 8 December 2008 and Compromis and Videos and U. S. Congratulations and U. K. Congratulations and Photographs and Compromis for Christmas of 8 December 2008 and Belize Leading Counsel of 19 December 2008

The first release of the U. K. show, featuring the first two series, was released on DVD in America on 27 March 2007 and in the UK in 25 January 2008.