In November 2008, Massachusetts held a vote to ban greyhound racing, which passed 56 % to 44 %.

Competitor in a wheelchair racing | wheelchair race at the Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics | 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Paul Leonard Newman ( January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008 ) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast.

5500 cc turbo-Diesel engines are also permitted in P1 – Audi scored Le Mans victories with such a car in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and Peugeot returned to racing in 2007 with a car with a similar powerplant ( Peugeot 908 ).

Peugeot has been racing in the Stock Car Brasil series since 2007 and won the 2008, 2009 and 2011 championships.

In 2008 a MotoGP event was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on a newly prepared track, and observers noted that the Speedway had hosted motorcycle racing before cars raced there.

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

After racing both NASCAR Sprint Cup and Speedcar Series, Villeneuve was invited by the Top Race V6 chairman Alejandro Urtubey to join the series in its major event of the 2008 season, called La Carrera del Año ( The Race of the Year ), held at the Buenos Aires circuit.

2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, owned by IEAH stables, a horse racing hedgefund organization.

During the 2008 – 09 racing season 19 New Zealand bred horses won 22 Group One races around the world.

In 2008, the China Speed Horse Race Open in Wuhan was organized as a step towards legalizing both horse racing and gambling on the races.

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, " Smokey Oakey ", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

Currently Mustangs compete in several racing series, including the Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup and the KONI Challenge, where it won the manufacturer's title in 2005 and 2008, and the Canada Drift, Formula Drift and D1 Grand Prix series.

* Palm Beach International Raceway a racing facility built in 1965, and was remodeled in 2008 in and attempt to obtain a FIA Grade II Certification.

The facility had been idle, from 2005 – 2008, due to bankruptcy issues, until officially reopening, on April 19, 2009, to begin the 2009 racing season.

The legalizing of slot machines at some horse racing tracks passed in a statewide referendum in Nov. 2008.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

February 29, also known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

Since the Muslim calendar is based on 12 lunar months amounting to about 354 days, the Muslim New Year occurs about eleven days earlier each year in relation to the Gregorian calendar, with two Muslim New Years falling in Gregorian year 2008.

2008 ( MMVIII ) was a leap year that started on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the Living Greyhawk calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY ( 2001 ) and ended in 598 CY ( 2008 ), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.

* Hello Kitty Daily ( 2008, Nintendo DS )-a PDA application featuring a diary, calendar, alarm clock, money managing system and school planner

Amnesty International reported that at least 100 Falun Gong practitioners were believed to have been killed in the 2008 calendar year, either in custody or shortly after their release.

The ordinance requires food service establishments in Calabasas to start using environmentally acceptable packaging by March 31, 2008, and report on-going compliance with this ordinance on the first business day of each calendar year.

The Monte Carlo Rally is one of the longest running and most respected car rallies ; from 1973 to 2008, it marked the start of each rally season as the first event on the World Rally Championship calendar, but is now part of the second-tier Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

2009 marked the all new TL and TSX models as well as a mid-year model update for the RL ; all three made their debuts in the 2008 calendar year.

In the calendar year 2008 Nickel West produced 85, 800 tonnes of nickel.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 13, 837 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 23, 083 enplanements in 2009, and 38, 363 in 2010.

On October 7, 2008, the Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from the 2009 Formula One calendar, which left the Montreal race off the list for the first time since 1987.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 904, 482 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 964, 927 enplanements in 2009, and 999, 831 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2, 647, 287 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 2, 294, 991 enplanements in 2009, and 2, 239, 804 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1, 413, 251 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 1, 401, 903 enplanements in 2009, and 1, 451, 404 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 15, 961 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 12, 060 enplanements in 2009, and 4, 074 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 141, 847 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 103, 067 enplanements in 2009, and 111, 699 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 547, 871 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 530, 087 enplanements in 2009, and 549, 195 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, it had 705, 430 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 704, 771 enplanements in 2009, and 782, 737 in 2010.

As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3, 554 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2008, 3, 663 enplanements in 2009, and 4, 300 in 2010.

Armenia's national debt has increased significantly since 2008 when public external debt consisted of only 13. 5 percent of GDP.

As of 2008, Tanzania's merchant fleet consisted of 9 Tanzanian-flagged vessels and 1 registered in Honduras.

For example, in the Oliver Stone film Alexander, Vangelis conducted an orchestra that consisted of various classical instruments including sitars, percussion, finger cymbals, harps, and duduks .< ref > MFTM review of Alexander Retrieved 6 October 2008

According to the Israel Civil Aviation Authority, as of 31 January 2008, Israel's civil aircraft fleet consisted of 53 aircraft ; 47 passenger planes, 5 freighters and one convertible.

The Alitalia fleet consisted of the following aircraft ( at 31 March 2008 ):

While the crest consisted of a single colour only for most of the time, namely blue or red, the current ( 2008 ) crest is blue, red, and white.

In 2008, the city consisted of 33 colonias and fraccionamientos.

Digital Underground toured nearly every year up until 2008 ; this consisted of thousands of live shows in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U. S. While the group's origins lay mostly in Oakland and Berkeley, California, various characters and voices from around the U. S. appeared on the band's albums, while Shock G and Money-B were the only individuals to appear on every album.

The Futura International Airways fleet consisted of the following aircraft ( as of 4 September 2008 ):

At Survivor Series 2008, Team HBK which consisted of Shawn Michaels ( the team captain ), Rey Mysterio, The Great Khali and Cryme Tyme ( JTG & Shad ) defeated Team JBL ( John Bradshaw Layfield, Kane, Montel Vontavious Porter, John Morrison & The Miz ), thus ending the feud between Kane and Mysterio.

As of 2008, the Musictown Festival consisted of the King and Queen judging Day, the Musictown Ball, the Kiddies Day, the Pops Night, the Concert Night, and the Grand Day.

It consisted of a single island platform, numbered as Platforms 14 and 15 ( later renumbered to 16 and 17 respectively when the project to re-signal and add two additional platforms to the higher level took place in 2008 ).

On March 21, 2008, the city merged with the rest of Mine District, which consisted of towns Mitō and Shūhō, while the newly merged city retained the name, Mine.

The Club Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft ( as of 3 June 2008 ):

As of 2008, the flood defences consisted of a concrete seawall, flood sirens and an internal surface storm water drainage system.

On March 20, 2008, the day before its dissolution, the district consisted solely of the towns of Mitō ( 美東町 ) and Shūhō ( 秋芳町 ).

By 2008, Prism consisted of Harlow, Gary Grace ( drums ), Steve-O ( keyboards, guitars ) and Timothy B. Hewitt ( bass, guitars, keyboards ).

The faculty population, as of the 2009 / 2010 school year, consisted of ( in parentheses, the numbers as of the 2008 / 2009 school year ):

* In October, 2008, a doctor in the United States removed a brain tumor from Sam Esquibel that consisted of a foot and other body parts.

Prior to September 18, 2008, DCI's ownership consisted of three shareholders:

By the end of 2008, the fleet consisted of 10 jack-up drilling rigs, 1 semi-submersible drilling rig, 10 drilling barges, and with 2 jack-up drilling rigs and 3 semi-submersible drilling rigs on order.

The following year saw the addition of Korean students and by 2008 the student body consisted of participants from the US, China, Korea, Italy and Canada.

Following the 2008 legislative elections, the House consisted of 50 Republicans and 49 Democrats.

In addition she also set aside a project to release her first cookbook in April 2008 titled Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, which consisted of southern cooking recipes from Yearwood, her mother and sister.