January 2008
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January 2008 was the first month of the current year. It began on a Tuesday and ended after 31 days on a Thursday.
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International holidays
- January 1 - New Year's Day
- January 1 - Independence Day(Haiti)
- January 7 - Christmas (Orthodox)
- January 14 - Old New Year (Orthodox)
- January 26 - Australia Day
- January 26 - Republic Day (India)
Scheduled events
- January - Building for the new Liverpool Arena should be completed.
- January 1 - Quebec City is celebrating its 400th anniversary of its foundation making this city the oldest city in North America
- January 1 - Russia will be composed of 84 federal subjects instead of 85 as Ust-Orda Buryatia is merged into Irkutsk Oblast following a 2006 referendum.
- January 1 - Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro.[1]
- January 1 - Slovenia will start the presidency of European Union as the first of new member states.
- January 1 - The Republic of Ireland will have fully implemented its postal code system by this date.
- January 1 - Passports needed to go through Canada from Alaska and Return.
- January 1 - The European Patent Convention (EPC) enters into force for Norway. [2]
- January 3 - 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Iowa Caucus
- January 8 - 2008 Pakistan's Parliamentary Elections
- January 8 - 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: New Hampshire Primary
- January 9 - Singapore Changi Airport's Terminal 3 is due to be completed on this day.
- January 11 - Chipak Ke Jeetho - An endurance test organised by BIG 92.7 FM across Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad in association with Hyundai Motors.
- January 12 - 2008 Taiwanese legislative election
- January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first of three flybys of Mercury at 200 km altitude, to decrease velocity enough to a 2011 orbit insertion.
- January 18 - The film Cloverfield is released.
- January 19 - Parliamentary elections in the Faroe Islands.
- January 19 - The state of Nevada will hold its presidential caucus, sandwiching itself between what, to date, had been the two earliest votes on the candidacy for U.S. presidents, the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.
- January 21 - Scheduled opening ceremony of the 2008 African Cup of Nations to be held in Ghana.
January 1st
- The Taliban threaten to escalate attacks in Afghanistan after a year of record violence. (The Independent)
- Venezuela introduces the new Bolívar Fuerte currency (ISO 4217, code: VEF) to combat inflation. (ABC News)
- Fatah-Hamas conflict: At least eight people have died in factional fighting in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, reports say. (BBC News)
- Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro currency, becoming the 14th and 15th countries to do so. Cypriot pound and Maltese lira notes and coins will remain valid in shops until the end of the month, and exchangeable at the respective central banks for some years. (BBC News)
- A fire in a church in Eldoret, Western Kenya kills fifty people who were sheltering from violence after the disputed presidential election. (AP via Google News)
- US Diplomat John Granville, working for the United States Agency for International Development in Sudan, is murdered. (AP via Google News)
- Thiyagarajah Maheswaran, a minority Sri Lankan Tamil parliamentarian, is shot dead at a Hindu temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka.(Times of India)
- Meredith Emerson is first declared missing in Georgia.
January 10
- Operation Emmanuel: FARC guerrillas release Colombian hostages Clara Rojas and Consuelo González. (BBC News)
- U.S. President George W. Bush says Israel must return to its pre-1967 borders to enable the establishment of a Palestinian state. (BBC News)
- United States presidential election, 2008:
- Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson withdraws his candidacy. (CNN)
- Former presidential candidate John Kerry endorses Illinois Senator Barack Obama. (CNN)
- Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich calls for a recount in the New Hampshire primary, citing “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and machine-counted ballots.” (Business Wire) (The Hill)
- Republican candidates debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (FOX News)
- Four people die after two tractor trailers collide crossing the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge on the Mexico–United States border. (CNN)
References
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