What are some historical facts from 2008?

What are some historical facts from 2008?
Jan 1st - A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
Jan 8th - New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
Feb 8th - Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method.
Feb 17th - Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
Feb 24th - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
Mar 13th - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
Mar 19th - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed on this day.
May 2nd - Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
May 6th - Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
May 12th - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
Jun 29th - Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
Aug 27th - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
Sep 25th - China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
Sep 28th - SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
Oct 3rd - The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
Oct 24th - "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
Nov 4th - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States