A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

During the first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

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

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

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

The Falcons have qualified for the playoffs three times ( 2008, 2010 and 2011 ) during this period, but lost all three in the first round

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

In the Clean Development Mechanism, only afforestation and reforestation are eligible to produce certified emission reductions ( CERs ) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ( 2008 – 2012 ).

In the first quarter of 2008, CRTs retook the # 2 technology position in North America from plasma, due to the decline and consolidation of plasma display manufacturers.

A notable publication is Kris Dhillon's book The Curry Secret, which was first published in 1989 but has been reprinted as recently as 2008.

After finishing the 2006 and 2007 seasons with records of 8 – 8 and 7 – 9, respectively, the Panthers rebounded in the 2008 season, finishing the season with a 12 – 4 record, claiming the NFC South title and a first round bye in the playoffs.

New in 2008, the abalone card also comes with a set of 24 tags.

The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

The UDF government also failed to stop the growing negative account balance, which has since then continued to increase, reaching a negative of $ 12. 65 billion in 2008.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

Details of the photodiodes were also published in the February 14, 2008 issue of the journal Electronics Letters and the November 2007 issue of the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

The question of blackness also arose in Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.

The members of the P4 ( Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei ) also plan to conclude a chapter on finance and investment in 2008.

Chile's trade talks with Malaysia and Thailand are also scheduled to continue in 2008.

The Institute launched the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech in 2006, the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2008, and is also the current home for the Einstein Papers Project.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

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.

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

He also covered the Sunday morning 11 AM-1 PM show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.

In 2008, SkyCable also broadcast the 37th Ryder Cup in High-definition television ( HDTV ).

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.

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.

2008 also saw a Japan exclusive box set containing the band's first six albums, This is the Devo Box.

They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website

On 5 July 2008 a meeting took place between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.