As of mid 2008, the AIM-120 AMRAAM has shot down nine aircraft ( six MiG-29s, one MiG-25, one MiG-23, and one Soko J-21 Jastreb ).

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Site Selection magazine ranked Dayton the # 1 mid sized metropolitan area in the nation for economic development.

A clause to the archival procedures was revised in mid 2008, where if a veteran themselves or ( if deceased ) an immediate member of the family requested the Purple Heart on an Army or Air Force record, the medal would still be granted by the National Archives.

The Northeast experiences a long dry season although the dry 2007 / 2008 season lasted only from late November through mid March.

In mid 2008, The Stranglers played various major festivals around Europe.

The presidency of Levy Mwanawasa until his death in office in mid 2008, was different than the flamboyant expenditure and increasingly apparent corruption of the later years of Frederick Chiluba's terms in office.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to close or sell on the Loughbeg API facility, located at Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy Co. Cork Ireland by mid to end of 2008.

By mid 2008 the town's population has grown to over 17, 000.

On January 7, 2008, on an unusually warm day which saw temperatures reach the mid, a tornado struck northern Illinois, including Poplar Grove.

Converse re-released " The Weapon " classic ( which Kobe Bryant wore at least three times in 2002 and Andre Miller wore numerous times in 2002 from mid August to early September ) several times from 2001-2003 and after, " The Loaded Weapon " in 2003, " The Weapon 86 " in 2008, and " The Weapon EVO " in 2009.

In mid 2008, the Consortium began talks with the National University of Singapore to build a sixth undergraduate Claremont College, off-site, in Singapore.

The reactivation of the railway Maastricht-Lanaken will be completed mid 2008.

The company ceased operations in mid 2008, and the device is no longer on the market.

After a disagreement with the rest of the cast, Lee and Herring did not remain with the group when On The Hour moved to television as The Day Today and their material was excised from an official release of the radio show in the mid -' 90s ( though a 2008 CD release would see it reinstated ).

In mid February, 2008, Champ Car filed for bankruptcy.

In mid 2008, the group composed three exclusive tracks for the Sims 3 game soundtrack: " Rockfalls & Estuaries ", " She Stepped Out of the Car " and " Young Etruscians ".

This product has been available since at least mid 2008.

Construction began in August 2007 and was completed in June 2008 but it took until mid October 2009 to get all the new systems tested and working.

An anthology of unreleased Ultravox material was planned in mid 2008, but has not been scheduled for release.

Begun in 2005, the relocation was 94 % complete as of October 2008, and was expected to be fully complete in mid 2009.

On 8 May 2008, he was announced as the new Chairman of the Environment Agency and took up the new role in mid July.

Toad's Place accommodated mid sized bands in 2007 and 2008 but closed shortly after that time.

The number of unique autonomous networks in the routing system of the Internet exceeded 5000 in 1999, in late 2008, and in mid 2010.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

Doug Engelbart began experimenting with a keysets to use with the mouse in the mid 1960s.

Telecom companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, began boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid 2000s.

In the mid 1970s, Guinness began to list speed records achieved using any drinking vessel.

Washington began to pull himself out of debt in the mid 1760s by diversifying his previously tobacco-centric business interests into other ventures and paying more attention to his affairs.

Great Auks began pairing in early and mid May.

The U. S. Navy began experiments with hydrofoils in the mid 1950s by funding a sailing vessel that used hydrofoils to reach speeds in the 30 mph range.

Ullmann began her acting career on the Norwegian stage in the mid 1950s.

In secondary schools, an early " film studies " course first began being taught as part of the Victorian junior secondary curriculum during the mid 1960s.

Motorcycle Polo first began officially in the mid 1930s.

In the mid 1960s Baba became concerned with the increasingly prevalent drug culture in the West and began a correspondence with several Western academics, including Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, in which he strongly discouraged the use of all hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual purposes.

As the campus orientation of the American New Left became clear in the mid to late 1960s, the student sections of the British New Left began taking action.

The term began taking a pejorative connotation in mid 19th century, when it was appropriated from religion to the political sphere.

Led by pearl pioneer John Latendresse and his wife Chessy, the United States began farming cultured freshwater pearls in the mid 1960s.

It is notable that the arrival of the Ambivalent mode of child-rearing preceded the start of the Renaissance ( mid 14th century ) by only one or two generations, and the arrival of the Socializing mode coincided with the Age of Enlightenment, which began in the late 18th century.

While the Roman Inquisition was originally designed to combat the spread of Protestantism in Italy, the institution outlived that original purpose and the system of tribunals lasted until the mid 18th century, when pre-unification Italian states began to suppress the local inquisitions, effectively eliminating the power of the church to prosecute heretical crimes.

Richman grew up in Natick, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and began playing guitar and writing songs in his mid teens, first performing solo in public in 1967.

The beer began to gain wide popularity in the mid 1960s with an innovative television advertising campaign featuring a very similar recording of the theme from the film The Magnificent Seven, images of working-class Australians at work and play, and a voice-over by notable Australian actor John Meillon.

Towards the mid 1980s, however, things began to change.

The wave view did not immediately displace the ray and particle view, but began to dominate scientific thinking about light in the mid 19th century, since it could explain polarization phenomena that the alternatives could not.

* The Troubles in Northern Ireland began with the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the mid 1960s, the conflict continued into the later 1990s.

By the mid 5th century, as the Roman Empire began to crumble, Thracia fell from the authority of Rome and into the hands of Germanic tribal rulers.

A similar situation occurred in France, with the two vines being commonly confused until the mid 19th century, when ampelographers began combing through the vineyards of Chablis and Burgundy, identifying the true Chardonnay and weeding out the Pinot Blanc.