Jan. 1 -Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro.
January 2 - The price of petroleum hits $100 per barrel for the first time.
January 21 - Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.
January 25 - China's worst snowstorm since 1954 kills 133, delays traffic, and causes massive power outages in central and southern parts of the country.
February 5 - U.S. stock market indices plunge more than 3% after a report shows signs of economic recession in the service sector. The S&P 500 fall 3.2%, The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 370 points.
July 23 - Ram Baran Yadav is sworn in as the first President of Nepal.
August 1 - A total eclipse of the Sun is visible from Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China.
August 8-August 24 - The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing, China.
Sept. 10 - The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.
Sept. 15 - Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, laying the catalyst for the Global financial crisis.
October 3 - Global financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.
Oct. 7 - Global financial crisis: Russia agrees to provide Iceland with a four-billion-euro loan.
October 9 - Global financial crisis: Following a major banking and financial crisis in Iceland, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority takes control of the three largest banks in the country: Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, and Glitnir.
Oct. 29 - Global financial crisis: Hungary's currency and stock markets rise on the news that it will receive an international economic bailout package worth $25 billion from the IMF, European Union, and World Bank.
November 4 - United States presidential election, 2008: Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States, and becomes the first African-American President-elect.
December 31 - An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.
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