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 )

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

A 2008 British Medical Journal article highlights that the combination of macrolides and statins ( used for lowering cholesterol ) is not advisable and can lead to debilitating myopathy.

In October 2008, Reagan was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after falling at home.

DNA information, made public in July 2008, that has been obtained from Ekaterinburg and repeatedly subject to independent testing by laboratories such as the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, and reveals that the final two missing Romanov remains are indeed authentic and that the entire Romanov family housed in the Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg were executed in the early hours of 17 July 1918.

The Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee ( MSAC ) in 2008 has determined that endovenous laser treatment / ablation ( ELA ) for varicose veins " appears to be more effective in the short term, and at least as effective overall, as the comparative procedure of junction ligation and vein stripping for the treatment of varicose veins.

A 2008 study in the British Medical Journal concluded that 269, 000 civilians were killed by all sides in the war.

* John Finch ; ' A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor ', Medical Research Council 2008, 381 pp, ISBN 978-1-84046-940-0 ; this book is all about the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Live related renal donors have a significant improvement in the QOL following renal donation using the WHO QOL BREF in a study done at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences from 2006 to 2008.

* Medical History Annick Opinel 2008, The Emergence of French Medical Entomology: The Influence of Universities, the Institut Pasteur and Military Physicians ( 1890 – c. 1938 ) Med Hist.

| Opened in 2008, facility is operated by the University of Texas Medical Branch.

In June 2008, the American Medical Association House of Delegates declared that discrimination, stating that the denial to patients with Gender Identity Disorder of otherwise covered benefits represents discrimination, and that the AMA supports " public and private health insurance coverage for treatment for gender identity disorder as recommended by the patient's physician.

As of July 2008, PeaceHealth Medical Group is the largest private employer in Lane County.

The county oversees the Hennepin County Library system ( which merged with the Minneapolis Public Library system in 2008 ), and Hennepin County Medical Center.

The Michael A Ashcroft Building opened in 2003 ; the Mildmay Sports Centre, and the Tindal Building, in 2005 ; the William Harvey Building in 2007 ; The Faculty Building ( renamed The Marconi Building in 2011 ) in 2008 ; and the Postgraduate Medical Institute building, opened 2011.

Spears gave birth to their daughter, Maddie Briann Aldridge, on June 19, 2008, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.

Just opened in January, 2008, was the Western Yell County Medical Clinic on Hwy 10 West, followed by a new High School which opened in December 2008.

On October 1, 2008, Hackensack University Medical Center opened Hackensack University Medical Center North at Pascack Valley as a satellite emergency department.

As of November 2008, Hackensack University Medical Center plans to re-open the entire facility as a for-profit full-service hospital with Legacy Hospital Partners of Texas.

Replaced by Intermountain Medical Center ( IMC ) in 2008, it spawned The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital ( TOSH ) in the 1990s.

In 2008 the University of Texas Medical Branch board of regents approved the creation of the Specialty Care Center facility, located on of land near Interstate 45, Farm to Market Road 646, and the Victory Lakes community.

The Gulf Medical University ( GMU ), previously Gulf Medical College, was awarded university status in July 2008 after an order issued by Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.