Since the start of the 2008 season, the Falcons have recorded four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

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 ).

The number of societies in the UK fell by four during 2008 due to a series of mergers brought about, to a large extent, by the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

Switzerland has been ruled by a coalition of the four strongest parties in parliament from 1959 to 2008, called the " Magic Formula ".

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.

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 January 2008, the Fiji Times Online reported that the government of Fiji had announced in a cabinet statement that it will establish full diplomatic relations with four nations: Iceland, Latvia, the Dominican Republic and Estonia.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, New York after the death of his brother Max, was the second of four children of Matilda Andrades ( July 28, 1934 – November 17, 2008 ) and Gerard Basquiat ( born 1930 ).

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

In 2008, Alexander guest-starred on the CBS show Criminal Minds in the season four episode " Masterpiece " as Prof. Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.

The Wizards played their home games at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Kansas in 2008, and ended a four year playoff drought by posting an 11 – 10 – 9 record, which was good enough for fourth place in the Eastern Conference.

The combined revenues for the four casinos successfully operating in Kansas City exceeded $ 153 million per month in May 2008.

One study published in 2008 questions the long-accepted Mustelinae subfamily, and suggests Mustelidae consists of four major clades and three much smaller lineages.

The team failed to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2008 and experienced their first losing season in four years.

With the addition of sack-leader Jared Allen in 2008, the dominant front four began being called by several nicknames, including " Thunder and Plunder " and " Shock and AWWE " ( an acronym of their surname initials ).

On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States.

A federal republic was established in May 2008, with only four members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly voting against the change, which ended 240 years of royal rule in Nepal.

The United States Postal Service ( USPS ) in October 2008 issued four stamps with Nutcrackers for the first time.

: Protestant 63. 4 % ( Anglican 28. 3 %, Pentecostal 18. 7 %, Methodist 5. 1 %, other 11. 3 %), Roman Catholic 4. 2 %, other Christian 7 %, other 4. 8 %, unspecified 20. 6 % ( 2008 est.

In January 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney condemned Corpus Christi, which opened for Mardi Gras, because it depicted Judas seducing a gay Jesus as well as Jesus ' administration of gay marriage between two apostles.

The Global Anglican Future Conference, a meeting of conservative bishops held in Jerusalem in June 2008 ( one month prior to Lambeth ), was thought by some to be an " alternative Lambeth " for those who are opposed to the consecration of Robinson.

The June 2008 church blessing of Peter Cowell, an Anglican chaplain at The Royal London Hospital and priest at Westminster Abbey, and David Lord, an Anglican priest serving at a parish in Waikato, New Zealand, renewed the debate one month prior to the conference.

On January 19, 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, condemned Corpus Christi ( which opened for February's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus ): " It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it.

A suffragan bishop was consecrated for the Anglican Episcopal Church in late 2008 by its presiding bishop and three bishops of the Diocese of the Great Lakes.

The Vatican announced, on July 5, 2008, that it was giving serious consideration to appeals received from various Anglican groups seeking union with itself, observing that " the situation within the Anglican Communion in general has become markedly more complex ".

* Anglican Mission in the Americas ( joined 2008 )

* 2008: Kay Goldsworthy became the first female bishop of the Anglican Church in Australia.

Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley ( 22 November 1928 – 8 April 2008 ) was a United Kingdom politician and an Anglican clergyman.

In 2008 over 33, 500 courses were offered in 163 countries by Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, British New Church Movement and Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic Church.

* In 2008, he produced The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism with J. Alec Motyer.

In 2008, Slipper was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia which is a member church of the Traditional Anglican Communion ( TAC ) and considered part of the international Continuing Anglican movement.

Until 2008 she was 25th in the line of succession to the British Throne, bypassing her father, an Anglican who married a Roman Catholic, and her elder brother, who is a Roman Catholic.

Wembley Downs contains Hale School, an Anglican boys ' private school, a state primary school, and a small shopping centre called ' The Downs ' which burnt down in October 2008.

* John Long ( priest ) ( 1913 – 2008 ), Anglican Archdeacon of Ely

In June 2008, Truro was represented at the Global Anglican Future in Jerusalem.

There is also an Anglican church that was destroyed in the 2008 Hay River ice breakup.

In late 2007, Jensen was one of the founding members of the Global Anglican Future Conference which was held in June 2008, one month prior to the Lambeth Conference.

On June 25, 2008 a parliamentary committee set forth resolutions urging Spain to grant the primates the rights to life and liberty.

In 2008 a proposal to ban all primates experiments in the EU has sparked a vigorous debate.

Results published in 2008 showed that CR attenuated age-related sarcopenia in these primates.

* Squirrel monkeys-There are only 5 of these small primates in the park, one of which came from a German laboratory, with the other two rescued in March 2008 from the UK pet trade.

In 2008, Monkey World, Pingtung Rescue Centre, Cat Tien National Park and the Forestry Protection Department worked together to create the Dao Tien Rescue centre in South Vietnam to save gibbons and other primates from the pet trade, smuggling, theme parks, and restaurants.

The biggest rescue the centre undertook was that of the 19 retired stump-tailed macaques from a medical research laboratory in the UK, but the rescue mission in 2008, of the 88 capuchin monkeys from a medical research laboratory in Chile, took the record of the largest rescue of primates in the world.

In May 2008, 32 Cynomolgus primates, also known as crab-eating Macaques, died of overheating at the Charles Rivers Laboratory in Sparks, Nevada after a climate system failure.

The centre was officially opened on November 11, 2008 and was designed to house a variety of animals, mainly rodents, fish and ferrets, and will include non-human primates.