From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 2008
November 2008
November 2008 was the 11th month of the leap year. It One World Champion in • 12: Catherine Baker Knoll
began on a Saturday and ended 30 days later on a Sunday. history. (Sky News) • 12: Mitch Mitchell
• Sébastien Loeb of Citroën • 12: Howard Reig
• 10: Arthur Shawcross
becomes the first World • 9: Miriam Makeba
Portal:Current Events Rally Championship • 9: Amrozi
driver to become World • 9: Imam Samudra
This is an archived version of Wikipedia’s Current events Portal Champion for the fifth • 9: Ali Ghufron
from November 2008. consecutive time. (BBC • 7: Jody Reynolds
• 5: B.R. Chopra
Current events of >News)
• 4: Michael Crichton
November 1, • Rupiah Banda of the • 4: David Shaber
S M T W T F S
2008 (2008-11-01) Movement for Multi-Party • 4: Juan Camilo Mouriño
(Saturday) 1 Democracy is sworn in as • 4: Byron Lee
• 4: Lennart Bergelin
• Floods kill 24 people in 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 President of Zambia after • 3: Madelyn Lee Payne
Vietnam including 11 in being elected on October Dunham
9 10 11 12 13 14 1530. (Canadian Press via
the central province of • 2: Ahmed al-Mirghani
Nghe An. (BBC News) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22Google) • 1: Yma Sumac
• 1: Jimmy Carl Black
• Nineteen Moro Islamic 23 24 25 26 27 28 Current events of
29 • 1: Jacques Piccard
Liberation Front rebels November 3,
are killed by Filipino 30
2008 (2008-11-03) (Mon- Ongoing conflicts
military air strikes in the day)
southern part of the • War in Afghanistan
• A report issued by an • Acholiland insurgency
island of Mindanao. (AFP Ongoing events
independent investigator • Civil war in Chad
via ABC) • Diplomatic response to hired by the Alaska • Second Chechen War
• A strong aftershock Abkhazian and South • Colombian armed conflict
Personnel Board finds
measuring 5.0 on the Ossetian independence • War in Darfur
• Diplomatic response to
that Republican Vice
Richter magnitude scale • Fatah–Hamas conflict
Kosovar independence Presidential candidate and • Kivu Conflict
hits southwestern
• Global financial crisis Governor of Alaska Sarah • Iraq War
Pakistan three days after • Icelandic financial crisis Palin did not violate the • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
it was struck by a 6.4 • Piracy in Somalia • Insurgency in Jammu and
law with regards to the so
magnitude earthquake. • Russian financial crisis Kashmir
(AFP via ABC) • Treaty of Lisbon ratification called "Troopergate • Turkey-PKK conflict
• World food price crisis scandal". However, a • Iran-PJAK conflict
• India’s first lunar mission,
previous, separate • Mexican drug war
Chandrayaan-1, transmits
Recent deaths
legislative investigation • War in North-West Pakistan
two pictures of the Earth • Insurgency in Ogaden
concluded that she did
while en route to the • Insurgency in the Philippines
abuse her office. (MSNBC)
Moon. (The Hindu) November • War in Somalia
• ARATS president Chen • Shia insurgency in Yemen
Current events of • 29: Jørn Utzon Yunlin, the official • South Thailand insurgency
• 27: V.P. Singh
November 2, delegation of the People’s • Sri Lankan Civil War
• 26: Edna Parker
2008 (2008-11-02) (Sun- • 26: Vitaly Karayev Republic of China, arrives
day) • 26: Hemant Karkare in Taiwan for talks with Elections
• 24: Cecil H. Underwood SEF chairman Chiang Pin-
• Lewis Hamilton wins the
• 23: Richard Hickox kung. (CNN)
2008 Formula One Drivers’ • 22: Ibrahim Nasir Recent
Championship, beating • Itaú and Unibanco
• 22: Rashid Rauf
• 21: Boris Fyodorov announce they will merge
Felipe Massa by one point October
to become the youngest • 17: Pete Newell their banking, credit, and
• 16: Reg Varney • 30 October: Zambia, President
and first black Formula insurance operations,
• 15: Ivan Southall creating the largest
financial services group in
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Brazil and the Southern historic photo finish, • Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal
Hemisphere. (Folha de S. November followed by Bauer, Tribunal
Paulo) • 4 November: United States: second, and C’est la • Netherlands: ICC
President, House of • Thomas Lubanga
• The Bangladeshi Guerre, third. (About.com) • Netherlands: ICTY
Representatives, Senate (one
government schedules • Michael Crichton, author • Peru: Alberto Fujimori
third: Class II Senators)
general elections on • 4 November: American of several famous novels • Sierra Leone: SCfSL
December 18, 2008, which Samoa, General including Jurassic Park, • Charles Taylor
will end the rule of the • 4 November: Guam, The Lost World, and The • Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
General • US: Jena Six
one and half year Andromeda Strain, dies at • US: Brian Nichols
• 4 November: Puerto Rico,
military-backed interim age 66. (Gale Cengage • US: José Padilla
Governor, Legislative
government. (BBC News) • 4 November: Palau, President,Learning) • US: Phil Spector
Senate and House of • US: Ted Stevens
Current events of Current events of
Delegates
November 4, • 8 November: New Zealand,November 5, Upcoming holidays
2008 (2008-11-04) (Tues- General 2008 (2008-11-05) (Wed-
and observances
day) • 9 November: San Marino, nesday)
Parliament
• Mexican Interior Minister • •
16 November: Guinea-Bissau, California Proposition 8, a November
Juan Camilo Mouriño dies Parliament referendum that amended
• 15 - December 24: Nativity
along with at least 12 • 18 November: American the State Constitution, Fast (Eastern Christianity)
others after the airplane Samoa, Gubernatorial runoff passes and defines • 30: Cities for Life Day
election • 30: Advent Sunday (Western
he was on crashes into marriage as being
• 23 November: Venezuela, Christianity)
rush-hour Mexico City Regional between a man and a
• 30: Independence Day
traffic. (BBC News) • 25 November: Greenland, woman, thus ending
(Barbados)
• The Straits Exchange Self-government referendum same-sex marriage in • 30: John F. Kennedy Day
Foundation and the California. (Los Angeles (Massachusetts)
Association for Relations Upcoming Times) • 30: Bonifacio Day
Across the Taiwan Straits • In a continuation of the (Philippines)
sign four agreements for November Kivu conflict, General
• 30: St. Andrew’s Day
(Scotland)
the Three Links across the • 30 November: Romania, Nkunda’s forces capture • 30: Independence Day
Legislative
Taiwan Strait, a major Kiwanja, near Rutshuru in (Yemen)
step in normalizing Cross- December the Democratic Republic
Strait relations. (CNN) of the Congo, after a two- December
• 29 December: Bangladesh,
• United States general day battle with the pro- • 1 - December 24: Advent
General
elections: government militias. (BBC (Western Christianity)
• 1: World AIDS Day
• Democrat Barack Trials
News) • 1: Cyber Monday
Obama wins the 2008 • India’s Gagan Narang wins • 1: National Day (Central
United States a gold medal in the men’s African Republic)
presidential election Upcoming 10 metre air rifle event at • 1: Freedom & Democracy Day
• Austria: Josef Fritzl (Chad)
after beating the 2008 ISSF World Cup
• Canada: Larry O’Brien • 1: Military Abolition Day
Republican John Final, breaking the world (Costa Rica)
• Estonia: Herman Simm
McCain, becoming the • Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, record. (IBNLive.com) • 1: Self-governance Day
first African American Amanda Knox • In his State of the Nation (Iceland)
to be elected to the • Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim address, Russian President • 1: State Day (Nagaland)
• Netherlands: ICTY • 1: Restoration of
office of President of Dmitry Medvedev
• Radovan Karadžić Independence (Portugal)
the United States. announces a proposal to • 1: Union Day (Romania)
• Singapore: Peter Lloyd
(CNN) • U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá extend the presidential • 2: International Day for the
• The Democratic Party • U.S.: Viktor Bout term from four years to Abolition of Slavery
picks up at least five • U.S.: Noshir Gowadia six. (The New York Times) • 2: National Day (Laos)
• U.S.: William J. Jefferson • 2: National Day (United Arab
seats in the Senate and • President of Russia
• U.S.: Kwame Kilpatrick Emirates)
modestly expands • U.S.: James Charles Kopp
Dmitry Medvedev
control in the House of • U.S.: Ehren Watada announces that his
Representatives. (BBC country will place
News) Ongoing short-range
• Australia Viewed wins the • Cambodia: Khmer Rouge conventional warhead
Melbourne Cup in a Tribunal missiles in Kaliningrad
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in order to counter Marie Lustiger. (Académie
United States missile française)
defense facilities in • Johnson Toribiong is
Poland and the Czech declared the winner of the
Republic, however, he Palauan presidential
expressed hope that election and will succeed
Russia–United States Tommy Remengesau as
relations would be President. (Pacific
mended with the Magazine)
presidency of Barack
Current events of
Obama. (CBC)
November 7,
Current events of 2008 (2008-11-07) (Fri-
November 6, day)
2008 (2008-11-06) • Hurricane Paloma
(Thursday) strengthens to Category 2
• Lindsay Roy of the strength as it lashes the
Scottish Labour Party Cayman Islands. (AFP via
wins the Glenrothes by- Google News)
election despite concerns • A doctored photo of North
that his party may lose Korean Kim Jong-il,
the seat to the Scottish released Wednesday,
National Party. (BBC renews speculation about
News) the leader’s health. (BBC
• According to officials, an News)
explosion kills at least 11 • A two-story school in
people aboard a minibus Pétionville, Haiti,
in the North Caucasus city collapses with 500
of Vladikavkaz, Russia. students inside, killing at
(BBC News) least 75 people. (Reuters)
• Jigme Khesar Namgyel • Malaysian blogger Raja
Wangchuck is coronated Petra Kamarudin is
as the fifth King of released from detention
Bhutan, replacing his under the Internal
father Jigme Singye Security Act after a court
Wangchuck, who ruled that his detention
abdicated his power, was illegal. (BBC News)
making him the world’s • President of Afghanistan
youngest monarch. (BBC Hamid Karzai opens a new
News) terminal at Kabul
• Tropical Storm Paloma, International Airport.
the 16th named storm of (BBC News)
the 2008 Atlantic • Unemployment in the
hurricane season, forms United States reaches its
off the coast of Nicaragua highest rate in 14 years.
with the potential to (BBC News)
become a hurricane • The Kivu conflict in the
within 24 hours. (AP via Democratic Republic of
Yahoo News) the Congo continues while
• Philosopher and academic the United Nations meets
Jean-Luc Marion is elected to discuss peace talks.
to become a member of (VOA)
the French Academy,
Current events of
replacing the late Jean-
November 8,
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2008 (2008-11-08) • Huda bin Abdul Haq,
(Saturday) Imam Samudra, and
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim are
• United Nations Secretary-
executed by firing squad
General Ban Ki-moon
on Kambangan Island in
meets with African
Indonesia for their
leaders to discuss
involvement in the 2002
resolutions to the ongoing
Bali bombings. (BBC
Kivu conflict in the
News)
Democratic Republic of
• An anti-police riot in
the Congo. (CNN)
Shenzhen, China
• A coalition consisting of
involving 400 people,
the National Party, ACT
takes place after a police
and United Future wins a
official threw a walkie-
majority of seats in the
talkie at a motorcyclist
Parliament of New
causing his death. (AFP via
Zealand, ending nine
Yahoo! News)
years of Labour Party-led
rule. (The New Zealand Current events of
Herald) November 10,
• Hurricane Paloma reaches 2008 (2008-11-10) (Mon-
Category 4 strength near day)
the Cayman Islands, with • Reports surface that a
winds up to 140 mph (225 United States nuclear
kph). (NHC) weapon was lost
Current events of somewhere in the ice
November 9, after the January 21, 1968
2008 (2008-11-09) (Sun- crash of a B-52
day) Stratofortress outside
Thule Air Base, Greenland.
• A total of €750 million of
(BBC News)
cocaine is seized off the
• Ryanair Flight 4102 is
coast of Ireland, in the
forced to make an
largest such seizure in the
emergency landing at
country’s history. (The
Rome’s Ciampino Airport
Sunday Business Post)
after several birds were
• The Latvian government
sucked into its engines as
effectively nationalizes
it prepared to land. (BBC
the country’s second-
News)
largest bank, Parex,
• Global financial crisis of
acquiring a controlling
2008:
51% stake for the symbolic
• The United States
sum of just two
government
lati.(Reuters)
announces a second
• The owner of the Haitian
bailout of American
school that collapsed is
International Group;
arrested on charges of
the total value of the
involuntary
new plan, roughly
manslaughter. (UPI)
US$150 billion,
• An accident aboard K-152
represents the largest
Nerpa, a nuclear-powered
government support
Russian Navy submarine
package extended to a
doing a test run in the Sea
private company in US
of Japan, kills more than
history.(MarketWatch)
20 people. (Al Jazeera)
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• American retail chain Championship, winning
Circuit City files for over US$9.1 million.
protection from its (ESPN)
creditors under • The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2
Chapter 11 of the sets sail on her final
United States voyage before she is
Bankruptcy Code. refurbished and turned
(MarketWatch) into a hotel in Dubai,
• Sweden’s Financial United Arab Emirates.
Supervisory Authority (BBC News)
announces that it is • Germany announces new
revoking the banking charges against John
licence of the Demjanjuk in the deaths
struggling Carnegie of 29,000 people at the
Investment Bank. Sobibor extermination
(Reuters) camp in Poland during the
• Stocks gain worldwide Holocaust. (BBC News)
after China announces • A Holocaust survivor
a stimulus package group announces the
involving US$586 abandonment of
billion to finance negotiations with the
programs in 10 major Mormon church over the
domestic areas in the latter’s continued
next two years. (CNN) posthumous baptism of
• Italian Prime Minister Jews killed in the
Silvio Berlusconi repeats a Holocaust. (CNN)
comment that United • Egypt’s antiquities chief,
States President-elect Zahi Hawass, announces
Barack Obama is "young, the discovery of a
handsome and also 4,300-year-old pyramid
tanned," refusing to belonging to Queen
apologize for remarks he Sesheshet, mother of King
insisted are "flattering". Teti. (CNN)
(The Moscow Times) • Former President Chen
• India wins the Border- Shui-bian of the Republic
Gavaskar Trophy by of China is arrested while
defeating Australia 2-0 in the anti-corruption
the five-Test-match prosecutors have asked a
cricket series. three-judge panel to
(CricketNext.in) formally detain the
• An earthquake of former President. (CNN)
magnitude 6.5 on Richter • The Indian Navy foils an
scale shakes western attempt by Somali pirates
China’s Qinghai province. to hijack a merchant ship
(CNN) in Gulf of Aden. (The
Indian Express)
Current events of
• Mohamed Nasheed is
November 11,
sworn in as the new
2008 (2008-11-11) (Tues-
President of the Maldives.
day)
(CNN)
• Peter Eastgate of Denmark • 2008 Russian financial
wins the 2008 World crisis:
Series of Poker main • Russian regulators
event, the $10,000 No- halt trading on one of
Limit Hold’em World the country’s two
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main stock indexes, • India successfully test
the MICEX, after it fell fires the first Sagarika
6.5%, dragged down by submarine-launched
commodity and ballistic missile from a
banking shares. (AP land-based launcher. (The
via Google News) Times of India)
• North Korea announces
Current events of
that it will close its land
November 12,
border with South Korea
2008 (2008-11-12) (Wed-
on December 1, 2008. (BBC
nesday)
News)
• A judge in Taipei, Taiwan,
rules that the former Current events of
President Chen Shui-bian, November 13,
should be held in jail 2008 (2008-11-13)
while prosecutors seek his (Thursday)
conviction on charges of • Blizzard Entertainment
money laundering and launched the latest
corruption. (The New York expansion pack to the
Times) highly popular computer
• India’s Chandrayaan-1 game MMORPG World of
lunar exploration mission Warcraft, entitled Wrath
successfully completes its of the Lich King.
journey to the Moon, • Josef Fritzl is charged with
entering its intended murder, rape and
operational orbit 100 km enslavement after
(62 mi) above the surface. allegedly sexually abusing
(CNN-IBN) and incarcerating his
• 2008 Russian financial daughter in the cellar of
crisis: his home, where one of
• Russia’s two main the children she was
stock exchanges are forced to bear died due to
suspended for one lack of medical attention.
hour after the market (Reuters)
opened with a more • Three planets orbiting HR
than 10% decline in 8799 and one planet
response to trends on orbiting Fomalhaut are
global markets and visually verified by
falling oil prices. telescopes, the first
(Interfax via OnNet.pl extrasolar planets whose
Biznes) existence have been
• Trade in Russian confirmed via direct
shares has been imaging. (CNN)
shifting to London • 2008 Russian financial
traded Global crisis:
Depositary Receipts • The Moscow Interbank
during frequent Currency Exchange
suspensions in falls 5% as trade
Moscow, dictated by resumes after a one-
rules imposed by the day limit-down halt,
regulator to reduce prompting confusing
volatility on Moscow’s suspension
increasingly illiquid announcements and
stock market.(Forbes) orders to the contrary
from the Federal
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Financial Markets exploration mission
Service. (The Guardian) successfully lands the
• Russian Prime Minister Moon Impact Probe on
Vladimir Putin questions the south pole of the
the commitment of the Moon. (The Times of India)
European Union to the • The Montecito Tea Fire in
construction of the Nord California burns 2,500
Stream pipeline to acres and damages more
establish a natural gas than 100 homes and the
delivery network from his campus of Westmont
country to Europe. A College. (Los Angeles Times)
European Commission • An investigation
spokesman responds, concludes that wake
"The EU continues to turbulence is the most
strongly support the Nord likely cause of the
Stream pipeline". (The November 4, 2008,
Wall Street Journal) airplane crash in Mexico
City that killed, among
Current events of
others, Secretary of the
November 14,
Interior Juan Camilo
2008 (2008-11-14) (Fri-
Mouriño and José Luis
day)
Santiago Vasconcelos.
• At a summit in Nice, (Reuters)
France, the European
Union and Russia agree to Current events of
refrain from deploying November 15,
missiles or missile defense 2008 (2008-11-15)
systems at least before (Saturday)
mid-2009, when a pan- • Over 1 million people in
European security 300 cities protest the
framework is discussed passing of California’s
between Russia, the Proposition 8. (USAToday)
United States and the EU. • At least 12 miners die in
(Xinhua) mine explosions in Petrila,
• General Ann E. Dunwoody Romania. (ABC)
becomes the first female • The G20 meets in
four-star general in the Washington, D.C. to
history of the United discuss responses to the
States Army. (BBC News) current economic crisis.
• An Italian court convicts (BBC News)
16 and acquits 13 police • Mission STS-126
officers of beating commences with the
protesters at the 2001 G8 launch of Space Shuttle
summit in Genoa.(The Endeavour. The spacecraft
Telegraph) will deliver equipment
• The Eurozone enters its required to increase the
first recession as the crew capacity of the
combined gross domestic International Space
product of the 15 Station from three to six
members dropped 0.2% in members. (NASA)
the second and third • Israel shuts down Gaza
quarters of 2008. (Sky border crossings after
News) Qassam rockets are
• India’s Chandrayaan-1 launched toward Israel in
unmanned lunar
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breach of an armistice. exchange is suspended
(ABC) after its nine indices
• A fiery bus-truck collision fall by more than 5%.
in Burkina Faso kills at (Forbes)
least 60 people. (CNN) • The MV Sirius Star, a
Saudi-owned oil tanker, is
Current events of
captured off the coast of
November 16,
Somalia by pirates. This is
2008 (2008-11-16) (Sun-
the largest vessel to date
day)
to be hijacked by Somali
• Jimmie Johnson wins pirates. (BBC News)
NASCAR’s 2008 Sprint Cup
Series championship, Current events of
becoming the second November 18,
driver to win three in a 2008 (2008-11-18) (Tues-
row. (The New York Times) day)
• A 7.3 magnitude • Democrat Mark Begich
earthquake strikes off the defeats Republican
coast of Indonesia, kills incumbent Ted Stevens in
two; a tsunami warning is Alaska’s highly contested
issued, but later lifted. Senate race. Begich will be
(CNN) the first Democratic
• United States senator representing the
President-elect Barack state in twenty-eight
Obama resigns his Senate years. (AP via MSNBC)
seat. (The Washington Post) • Togiola Tulafono is re-
elected as Governor of
Current events of
American Samoa, easily
November 17,
defeating challenger Utu
2008 (2008-11-17) (Mon-
Abe Malae. (Pacific
day)
Magazine)
• Global financial crisis of • Takehiko Yamaguchi, a
2008: former Japanese Vice
• Citigroup will cut Minister for Health, and
75,000 jobs by early his wife are found stabbed
2009. (BBC News) to death in Saitama, a
• The Japanese economy suburb of Tokyo. (BBC
posts consecutive News)
second-quarter • Global financial crisis of
contraction for the 2008:
first time since 2001, • Central European
officially putting the stocks drop to a three-
country in a recession. week low on
(CNN-IBN) expectations of
• On the New York slowing economic
Mercantile Exchange, growth. Poland
crude oil futures forecasts economic
contracts fall by 3.7% growth to drop to 2.3%
to close at $US54.95 in 2009 from 5.4% in
per barrel, the lowest 2008 and the Warsaw
price in 22 months. Stock Exchange’s WIG
(MarketWatch) 20 index falls 3.5% in
• 2008 Russian financial two hours. Bulgaria’s
crisis: The Russian Sofia Stock Exchange
Trading System stock is at a five-year low.
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Both Bulgaria and same-sex marriage for
Romania may need Nepalese citizens.
International (Hindustan Times)
Monetary Fund loans • Amnesty International’s
to repay US$100 report on the 2008 South
billion of external Ossetia war highlights
debt. (Bloomberg) Georgia’s role as aggressor
• HSBC Holdings and notes evidence of
announces 500 layoffs "notoriously inaccurate"
in Hong Kong. (CNN- Georgian artillery fire
IBN) resulting in "scores" of
• Pepsi announces 3,000 civilian deaths in South
layoffs in the United Ossetia, of aimed artillery
States, Canada, fire at Russian
Mexico, and Europe. peacekeepers base, and of
(CNN-IBN) Russian failure to provide
• 2008 Russian financial defense to civilians during
crisis: Trading will the conflict. (Amnesty
remain suspended at International) (AP via
the Moscow Interbank CBS)
Currency Exchange for • Piracy in Somalia:
another two days or • The Indian Navy
until the Federal frigate INS Tabar
Financial Markets destroys a pirate ship
Service instructs and forces the
otherwise. (Forbes) abandonment of
• 2008 Nord-Kivu fighting: another pirate vessel
War crimes are reported off the coast of
in the Nord-Kivu province Somalia. (BBC News)
of the Democratic • The MV Delight, a
Republic of the Congo Hong Kong cargo ship
after a ceasefire is broken carrying 36,000 tons of
and fighting resumes, wheat and 25 crew
leaving at least 100 members is hijacked
civilians dead. (INSI) near Yemen’s coast in
the Gulf of Aden.
Current events of
(CNN)
November 19,
• A Thai fishing ship
2008 (2008-11-19) (Wed-
with 16 crew members
nesday)
is hijacked off the
• The International coast of the Horn of
Monetary Fund approves Africa. (AsiaOne)
a US$2.1 billion rescue • New Zealand and
package for Iceland Australian researchers
following its financial identify a new species of
crisis. (The Wall Street penguin, the Waitaha
Journal) penguin (Megadyptes
• The Supreme Court of waitaha), which lived in
California agrees to hear a New Zealand until its
challenge to Proposition extinction 500 years ago.
8, which banned same-sex (AAP via Sydney Morning
marriage in the state (Los Herald)(Science Daily) (BBC)
Angeles Times) • John Key is officially
• The Supreme Court of sworn in as the Prime
Nepal approves foreign Minister of New Zealand
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by Governor-General falling demand in
Anand Satyanand. (AFP Europe. (BBC News)
via Google News) • At least one person is
• The first successful dead and twenty injured
trachea transplant using a after a bomb is thrown
tissue-engineered organ is into a People’s Alliance for
performed in Spain. (BBC Democracy protest
News) compound in Bangkok,
• NASA successfully tests Thailand. (ABC)
the first deep-space • Piracy in Somalia:
communications protocol • The Russian Navy
to pave the way for announces that it will
Interplanetary Internet. deploy more warships
(MSNBC) in the Gulf of Aden to
curb piracy. (AFP via
Current events of
Google)
November 20,
• The Indian Navy
2008 (2008-11-20)
receives permission
(Thursday)
from the Somali
• United States Attorney government to enter
General Michael Mukasey its territorial waters in
collapses while giving a pursuit of pirates.
speech to the Federalist (CNN-IBN)
Society in Washington, • Five Guantánamo Bay
D.C. (Politico) detainees who
• The Swedish Parliament successfully argued
ratifies the Treaty of Boumediene v. Bush before
Lisbon. (Dagens Nyheter) the Supreme Court are
• NASA’s Mars ordered freed by Judge
Reconnaissance Orbiter Richard J. Leon of the
discovers evidence of District Court for
enormous underground Washington, D.C. (The New
deposits of water ice on York Times)
Mars; one such deposit,
under Hellas Planitia, is Current events of
estimated to be the size of November 21,
Los Angeles. (AFP via 2008 (2008-11-21) (Fri-
Breitbart) day)
• Global financial crisis of • Global and Russian
2008: financial crises:
• Automotive industry • Construction of
crisis: Executives of several skyscraper
the top three U.S. buildings in Russia
automakers (Ford (Norman Foster’s
Motor Company, Russia Tower,
General Motors, and Gazprom’s Okhta
Chrysler) testify Center) are canceled
before Congress for a due to lack of credit
bailout package. (AP available during the
via Google) global financial crisis.
• French automaker PSA (The Guardian)
Peugeot Citroën • The 2010 Winter
announces plans to Olympics in
cut 2,700 jobs due to Vancouver may be
"facing challenges" as
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several corporate Clinton has agreed to
sponsors may stop serve as the next U.S.
financing the Secretary of State and
Olympics due to the Timothy F. Geithner as
crisis. The Russian the next Secretary of the
government Treasury under the
announces it will presidency of Barack
review spending on Obama. (The New York
the 2014 Winter Times)
Olympics in Sochi, • The U.S. National
saying it had "set a Intelligence Council
target of saving some predicts a major decline in
money". International U.S. economic, military,
Olympic Committee and political dominance
President Jacques over the next two decades
Rogge says there is (BBC News)
"no issue" of financing • Malaysia bans the practice
for the coming three of yoga by Muslims. (BBC
Games: the 2010 News)
Olympics, the 2012 • South Africa changes to
Summer Games in an open
London, and the 2014 telecommunications
Winter Games; market ending a long
however, the monopoly and duopoly
organizers may need environment as smaller
to "hold down the independent service
size" of the Games to providers gain certainty
cope with the global on their rights to build
financial downturn. network infrastructure.
(The Globe and Mail) (FM Tech)
(The Guardian) (The • Regal Entertainment
Times) Group (RGC) stock shares
• Toyota cuts its reached one of its all time
Japanese temporary lows, selling for $7.45
workforce by 50 USD.
percent from 6,000 to
Current events of
3,000 due to falling
November 22,
automobile sales.
2008 (2008-11-22)
(Bloomberg)
(Saturday)
• Burmese comedian
Zarganar is sentenced to • The government of
45 years in prison for Colombia confirms that
organising relief for the eruption of Nevado
victims of Cyclone Nargis. del Huila, a volcano in
(AFP via Google News) southern Colombia, has
• Confirmation of Neil led to at least 10 deaths in
Barofsky as special recent days and the
inspector general of the evacuation of 12,000
Troubled Assets Relief people. (BBC)
Program is delayed by an • The Kurdistan Workers
unnamed Republican Party claims
United States Senator. responsibility for
(The Deal) bombing an oil pipeline
• According to unofficial between Iraq and Turkey.
sources, Hillary Rodham (ABC News Australia)
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• Saudi Arabia’s Royal Navy Muslim region is now in a
joins NATO’s mission in state of civil war. (BBC)
combating piracy in • One person is killed and
Somalia. (Bloomberg) several injured in an
• New Zealand’s national apparent failed coup
rugby league team defeats attempt in Guinea-Bissau,
Australia’s team 34 to 20 hours after the
in the final of the 2008 controversial results of
Rugby League World Cup. the parliamentary
(IHT) election were announced
• Studies reveal children in where the African Party
the Northern Hemisphere for the Independence of
born in the autumn Guinea and Cape Verde
months have the highest won 67 of 100 seats. (BBC
rates of asthma, probably News)
caused by winter viruses • The government of
like RSV. (U.S. News & Burundi abolishes capital
World Report) (AJRCCM punishment and bans
study) homosexuality. Genocide
• Zimbabwe refuses to and war crimes are now
grant visas for Kofi recognized as illegal
Annan, Jimmy Carter and activities. (Gulf Times)
Graça Machel, who were • Scientists led by the
traveling to the country University of Calgary are
on a humanitarian searching for the remains
mission. (VOA News) of a meteorite that is
• The Asia-Pacific Economic believed to have struck
Cooperation’s annual northern Canada, around
summit opens in Lima, the border of Alberta and
Peru, amid an ongoing Saskatchewan, overnight.
economic crisis that is (CBC)
expected to lead • Venezuelans go to the
discussions. (Reuters) polls for regional
elections. Allies of
Current events of
President Hugo Chávez
November 23,
win 17 of 21
2008 (2008-11-23) (Sun-
governorships, but the
day)
opposition wins in the
• Mario Fernando two biggest states of
Hernández, a Liberal Party Miranda and Zulia as well
member of the Honduran as the mayorship of
National Congress, is shot Caracas. (Reuters), (BBC)
dead in San Pedro Sula. • The Dalai Lama warns that
(ABC News Australia) he is losing confidence in
• Mahmoud Abbas is Chinese officials and that
appointed as the the Tibetan people are
President of the "State of facing "great danger".
Palestine" by the Central (AFP via Google News)
Council of the Palestinian • The Calgary Stampeders
National Authority. (BBC) defeat the Montreal
• Human rights activists Alouettes 22-14 to win the
and opposition politicians 96th Grey Cup. (TSN)
in Russia’s southern • The Columbus Crew
republic of Ingushetia say defeat New York Red Bulls
that the predominantly
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3-1 to win MLS Cup 2008. witnesses travelling
(ESPN) with the convoy say
they heard the
Current events of
automatic gunfire,
November 24,
though it was unclear
2008 (2008-11-24) (Mon-
from which direction
day)
it came. Polish
• United States Parliament spokesman
President-elect Barack later comments the
Obama announces his incident was "not very
Treasury team, which serious at all", though
includes Timothy F. "unfortunate" as it put
Geithner as Secretary, the Polish president in
Lawrence Summers as an "awkward"
president of the National situation.(CNN-IBN)
Economic Council, and (Washington Post)
Christina Romer as chair (Moscow Times)
of the Council of • Georgian
Economic Advisers. (BBC Parliamentary hearing
News) Obama is also into the 2008 South
expected to announce Ossetia war marred by
Peter R. Orszag as director "angry exchanges"
of the Office of after the commission
Management and Budget. member, and a
(CNN) supporter of Mikeil
• United Kingdom Prime Saakashvili, throws a
Minister Gordon Brown pen at a high-ranking
outlines plans to raise the Georgian diplomat, a
income tax rate for the former close ally of
first time since 1975. (AP Saakashvili, in
via Google News) response to his
• Flooding in the Southern testimony that the
Brazilian state of Santa "Georgian leadership
Catarina causes at least 45 started the military
deaths and forces the action first" during
evacuation of 20,000 the conflict. (Reuters
people. (BBC News) UK)
• Bangladesh’s Electoral • People’s Alliance for
Commission reschedules Democracy protestors
the date for the general surround Thailand’s
election from December National Assembly as part
18 to December 29. (BBC of a "final push" against
News) the government. (AFP via
• Aftermath of the 2008 the Melbourne Age)
South Ossetia war: • Global financial crisis of
• Georgian Interior 2008:
Ministry claims "shots • Citigroup receives
were fired" at a US$32 billion from the
convoy including United States
Georgian President Emergency Economic
Mikheil Saakashvili Stabilization Act.
and Polish President (News.com.au)
Lech Kaczyński on the • The Asia-Pacific Economic
border of Georgia and Cooperation’s annual
South Ossetia. Several summit ends in Lima,
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Peru, amid an ongoing financial crisis.
economic crisis with a (Bloomberg)
declaration of • Israel again seals off the
commitment with free Gaza Strip in response to
markets and an openness rocket attacks. (AFP via
of the economy, ABC News Australia)
refrainment from raising • 2008 Thai political crisis:
trade barriers in goods • About 10,000
and services over the next protesters from the
12 months, the regulation People’s Alliance for
and supervision of Democracy surround
financial systems, and the Prime Minister
ensuring of corporate Somchai Wongsawat’s
social responsibility. temporary office at
Don Mueang
Current events of
International Airport
November 25,
in Bangkok, Thailand.
2008 (2008-11-25) (Tues-
(AFP via Google News)
day)
• Thousands of tourists
• Reports indicate that are left stranded at
President-elect Barack Suvarnabhumi Airport
Obama has decided to after protests against
keep Robert Gates as the the return of the
United States Secretary of Prime Minister of
Defense and tap Marine Thailand from the
General James L. Jones as APEC Peru 2008
National Security Advisor. summit. (Melbourne
(USA Today) Herald-Sun)
• The U.S. Federal Reserve
announces a new US$800 Current events of
billion "stimulus" package November 26,
in which it will buy debt 2008 (2008-11-26) (Wed-
and mortgage-backed nesday)
securities and make loans • The United Nations
to holders of consumer Security Council gave the
debt (BBC News) green light to a plan by
• Armenia retains their UN Secretary General Ban
championship title by Ki-moon on the
beating China 2.5-1.5 in deployment of an EU
the 11th and final round civilian police and justice
at the 38th Chess mission in
Olympiad in Dresden, Kosovo.(Reuters)
Germany. (AP via Google • The Czech constitutional
News) court unanimously ruled
• Three people are killed in that the disputed parts of
a car bombing near the the Lisbon Treaty are in
Udelnaya Metro station in line with the Czech
Saint Petersburg, Russia. Constitution.(Bloomberg)
(AFP via Google News) • Woolworths Group PLC
• BHP Billiton, the world’s agrees to put its chain of
largest mining company, 815 stores in the United
withdraws a $66 billion Kingdom and DVD
bid for the Rio Tinto distribution businesses
Group due to the global into administration with
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30,000 jobs at risk. (Times • Edna Parker, the oldest
Online) living person in the world,
• The European Union died at age 115 in her
proposes a €200 billion hometown of Shelbyville,
stimulus package that will Indiana. (Shelbyville
include already-spent News) (BBC News)
money (BBC News) (WSJ)
Current events of
(IHT) (Al Jazeera)
November 27,
• U.S. President-elect
2008 (2008-11-27)
Barack Obama announces
(Thursday)
that he will create a new
"economic recovery • An Airbus A320 owned by
board," headed by Paul Air New Zealand with 7
Volcker, designed to people aboard crashes
provide "fresh into the sea off the
perspective" on the southern French coast
current economic issues during a training flight,
(CNN) exactly 29 years to the day
• At least 80 people are (NZDT) after Air New
dead and over 250 Zealand Flight 901
wounded in coordinated crashed in Antarctica.
terrorist strikes across (CNN)
Mumbai, India. (The Times • A Polish ABW secret
of India) service report says the
• Vitaly Karayev, the mayor shooting incident in
of Vladikavkaz, the capital Georgia involving Polish
of North Ossetia-Alania in President Lech Kaczyński
Russia is assassinated. and Georgian President
(BBC) Mikheil Saakashvili was
• 2008 Thai political crisis: most likely "a
• The People’s Alliance provocation" staged by
for Democracy claims the Georgians (The
to be in complete Warsaw Voice)
control of • 2008 Santa Catarina
Suvarnabhumi floods: The Brazilian
Airport, Bangkok’s federal government
international airport. authorizes nearly 2 billion
(Sydney Morning reais (881 million U.S.
Herald) dollars) in emergency
• Thai authorities relief funds. (Reuters)
evacuate thousands of • Russia and Brazil call for
passengers from the first BRIC (Brazil,
Suvarnabhumi Russia, India, China)
Airport. (ABC News summit of major
Australia) emerging market
• Thai Prime Minister countries in Russia to
Somchai Wongsawat respond to the financial
rejects calls for crisis in 2009. (Reuters)
election. BBC News • A suicide car bomb
adde explodes near the United
• The Greenlandic self- States embassy in Kabul,
government referendum Afghanistan, with at least
passes with 75% approval. one person dead. (AP via
(BBC) New York Times)
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• An Australian soldier is result of an investigation
killed and several injured into the killing of Brahim
in fighting in Oruzgan Deby, a son of the
Province, Afghanistan. President of Chad Idriss
(Sydney Morning Herald) Deby. (AP via Google
• 2008 Thai political crisis: News)
• The government • Black Friday: As the
declares a state of Christmas shopping
emergency over two season begins in the
airports. (BBC News) United States, two are
(BangkokPost.com) shot at a Toys R Us store
• The Criminal Court of in Palm Desert, California,
Thailand throws out a and a Wal-Mart employee
defamation lawsuit is crushed in a stampede
brought by former after shoppers broke
Prime Minister down a front door in
Thaksin Shinawatra Valley Stream, New York.
against the People’s (KABC)(Bloomberg)
Alliance for • November 2008 Mumbai
Democracy. (Bangkok attacks: Indian security
Post) forces attack a Jewish
• Thai companies, centre in Mumbai where
agencies and some gunmen are holding an
schools send their unknown number of
employees/students hostages. (BBC)
home for security • United Kingdom
reasons and after the Conservative Party
coup rumours. (Nation Shadow Minister Damian
Multimedia) Green is arrested for
• People’s Alliance for alleged leaking of
Democracy protesters Government immigration
close down Don statistics (BBC)
Mueang International • 2008 Thai political crisis:
Airport a day after • The Prime Minister of
closing down Thailand, Somchai
Suvarnabhumi Wongsawat, declares a
Airport, leaving state of emergency to
Bangkok without any allow police to clear
airports. (AFP via ABC) Bangkok’s two
The international international airports
transferring is moved of protesters. (Radio
to the closest U-Tapao Australia)
International Airport, • The government
but it will take more deputy spokesman has
than one and a half announced that PM
hours to reach Somchai will still stay
Bangkok by car. in Chiang Mai because
(Nation Multimedia) of unsettled army
situation and closure
Current events of
of the two airports in
November 28,
Bangkok. (Nation
2008 (2008-11-28) (Fri-
Multimedia)
day)
• People’s Alliance for
• Five people are arrested in Democracy has
France and Romania as a prepared the third set
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of its leaders, in case Christians and Muslims
its first and second set clashed over the result of
are arrested or a local election. (BBC)
assassinated, but have • 2008 Thai political crisis:
not announced the People’s Alliance for
leaders’ names yet. Democracy protestors
(Bangkok Post) force the Royal Thai
• ASTV, a TV firm Police to abandon a
broadcasting a checkpoint outside
People’s Alliance for Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Democracy’s (Reuters)
demonstration is • 2008 Santa Catarina
bombed with grenades floods: The number of
and gunfire on early confirmed deaths rise to
morning of Friday 105 people. (G1)
(GMT +7). (Nation • November 2008 Mumbai
Multimedia) attacks:
• About 5,000 Muslim • The death toll from
Haj pilgrims are the attacks rises to 160
unable to leave the with a further 327
airport to Mecca. people missing.
(Bangkok Post) (Melbourne Age)
• Canada faces a • The Mumbai terror
parliamentary crisis as the attacks have finished
opposition Liberals, NDP with all militants at
and Bloc Québécois reject the Taj Mahal Palace &
the policies in the Tower shot dead. (AFP,
Conservative minority Reuters via News
government’s "economic Limited)
update." Following talks • The BlackSheeps win MGP
between the Liberals and Nordic 2008 held in
NDP, plans are unveiled to Aarhus, Denmark. The
hold a vote of no BlackSheeps had a lead of
confidence and replace 74 points at the end of
the Conservatives with a voting. (Sveriges
Liberal-NDP coalition. Television)
(Globe and Mail)
Current events of
Current events of November 30,
November 29, 2008 (2008-11-30) (Sun-
2008 (2008-11-29) day)
(Saturday) • Romania’s Social
• In an interview, U.S. Democratic Party wins the
President George W. Bush most votes in both houses
names No Child Left of Parliament in the
Behind as one of his most legislative election.
significant achievements (Bloomberg), (VoA)
and hopes to be • Nine headless bodies are
remembered for the found in Tijuana, Baja
current situation in Iraq California, as the Mexican
(ABC News) Drug War continues.
• Hundreds of people are (Reuters via ABC News
reported to have been Australia)
killed in the central • India’s home minister
Nigerian town of Jos after Shivraj Patil has
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submitted his resignation, February
taking "moral
March
responsibility" for the
Mumbai attacks. (BBC April
News)
• 2008 Thai political crisis: May
A grenade attack on a
People’s Alliance for June
Democracy rally in
July
Bangkok injures at least
46 people. (AP via August
Melbourne Age)
September
See also October
• List of months by year: 2000–2050
November
References December
Events by month
2011
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