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Events
January
- January 3 - Joe Biden drops out of the 2008 U.S. presidential election
- January 5 - A levee bursts in Fernley, Nevada, flooding a large portion of the town and forcing the evacuations of 3,500 residents.
- January 7 to January 10 - A storm passes through eastern North America, producing 64 tornadoes across the mideastern United States and record-breaking temperatures in eastern Canada.
- January 7 - NBC announces the 2008 Golden Globe Awards Ceremony will be canceled due to the Writers Guild of America strike. The network says it will announce the winners in a 1 hour news conference.
- January 9 - President George W. Bush begins a tour of the Middle East with a stop in Israel. Other destinations include Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, and Egypt.
- January 10 - Bill Richardson drops out of the U.S. presidential election due to shortage of money.
- January 15 - The Food and Drug Administration declares that food from cloned cattle, swine, goats, and their progeny is safe to eat.[1]
- January 18 - President George W. Bush announces an economic stimulus package, proposing $800 per individual and $1600 per couple in tax refunds.
- January 25 - Las Vegas Casino Monte Carlo catches fire.
- January 26 - The All American Football League (AAFL) holds its inaugural draft. [2]
- January 27 - The 2008 NHL All-Star Game occurs in Atlanta.
- January 28 - President George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union Address.[3]
- January 30 - U.S. presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards drop out of the race.
February
- February 1 - The Food and Drug Administration issued Public Health Advisory on Chantix, an anti-smoking medication, due to a possible "association between Chantix and serious neuropsychiatric symptoms."[4]
- February 2 - The military accidentally kills nine civilians in a raid in Iraq.[5]
- February 3 - The New York Giants defeat the heavily favored New England Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII, played at the University of Phoenix in Glendale, Arizona.[6]
- February 5 - A series of deadly tornadoes sweeps across Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Illinois, reportedly killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 100.
- February 7 - The Senate passes a $170 billion economic stimulus package by a margin of 81-16.
- February 7 - Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton kills five and wounds two people at city hall before being shot and killed by police in Kirkwood, Missouri.[7]
- February 7 - Mitt Romney suspended his campaign for the Republican Party nomination for the U.S. presidency.[8]
- February 10 - The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
- February 10 - Maine Democratic primary in U.S. presidential election.
- February 11 - A marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a fourteen-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda called this "grave case" "unforgivable". [9] Ambassador Tom Schieffer later offered a personal apology.[10]
- February 11 - A former Boeing engineer and Defense Department analyst are arrested and charged with espionage for allegedly passing information to the Chinese government.[11]
- February 12 - The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ends effectively at 6:51pm PST (02:51 UTC, February 13) as members vote to stop picket lines in response to a tentative deal reached by the WGA and the AMPTP three days earlier.[12]
- February 12 - Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old 8th grade student at E.O. Green Junior High School, was shot to death by fellow 14-year-old student, Brandon McInerney, for being gay.
- February 14 - Steven Kazmierczak opens fire, killing 6 and wounding 16 before shooting himself at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.[13]
- February 17 - USDA recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse[14]
- February 20 - The navy destroys American spy satellite USA 193 with a missile, prompting international speculation that it was testing its "anti-missile defence system's capability to destroy other countries' satellites."[15]
- February 24 - The 80th Academy Awards, hosted by Jon Stewart, takes place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California[16], with No Country for Old Men winning Best Picture.[17]
March
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May
June
July
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Salvatore Bonanno, mobster (b. 1932)
- January 7 - Edward "Buddy" LeRoux, businessman (b. 1930)
- January 7 - Philip Agee, spy (b. 1935)
- January 10 - Christopher Bowman, figure skater (b. 1967)
- January 10 - Maila Nurmi, actress and television personality, born in Finland (b. 1921)
- January 11 - Carl Karcher, businessman (b. 1917)
- January 13 - Johnny Podres, baseball player (b. 1932)
- January 15 - Brad Renfro, actor (b. 1982)
- January 17 - Bobby Fischer, chess grandmaster, later moved to Iceland (b. 1943)
- January 17 - Ernie Holmes, football player (b. 1948)
- January 17 - Allan Melvin, actor (b. 1922)
- January 18 - Georgia Frontiere, businesswoman (b. 1927)
- January 18 - Lois Nettleton, actress (b. 1927)
- January 19 - Frances Lewine, journalist (b. 1921)
- January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress (b. 1937)
- January 19 - John Stewart, Singer-Songwriter (b. 1939)
- January 22 - Roberto Gari, actor (b. unknown)
- January 22 - Miles Lerman, activist, born in Poland (b. 1920)
- January 24 - Randy Salerno, news anchor (b. 1963)
- January 27 - Gordon B. Hinckley, Mormon leader (b. 1910)
- January 29 - Margaret Truman, writer (b. 1924)
February
- February 1 - Shell Kepler, actress (b. 1958)
- February 2 - Earl Butz, government official (b. 1909)
- February 2 - Joshua Lederberg, molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
- February 3 - Sheldon Brown, bicycle mechanic (b. 1944)
- February 4 - Harry Richard Landis, World War I veteran (b. 1899)
- February 6 - John McWethy, print and television journalist (b. 1947)
- February 8 - Phyllis A. Whitney, mystery writer (b. 1903)
- February 10 - Ron Leavitt, television producer (b. 1947)
- February 10 - Roy Scheider, actor (b. 1932)
- February 11 - Tom Lantos, politician (b. 1928)
- February 12 - Oscar Brodney, screenwriter (b. 1907)
- February 13 - Roger Voisin, classical musician, born in France (b. 1918)
- February 15 - Steve Fossett, adventurer[22] (b. 1944)
- February 21 - Ben Chapman, actor (b. 1928)
- February 24 - Larry Norman, musician (b. 1947)
- February 26 - Buddy Miles, musician (b. 1947)
- February 27 - William F. Buckley, Jr., author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)
- February 27 - Myron Cope, sportscaster (b. 1929)
- February 27 - Boyd Coddington, car-builder (b. 1944)
- February 28 - Joseph M. Juran, engineer and philanthropist (b. 1904)
March
- March 4 - Gary Gygax, writer and game designer (b. 1938)
- March 5 - Joseph Weizenbaum, author and computer scientist, born in Germany (b. 1923)
- March 9 - Gus Giordano, Jazz dancer (b. 1923)
- March 12 - Howard Metzenbaum, politician (b. 1917)
- March 15 - Vicki Van Meter, former child pilot (b. 1982)
- March 16 - Ivan Dixon, actor and director (b. 1931)
- March 16 - Gary Hart, wrestler (b. 1942)
- March 22 - Cachao López, musician, born in Cuba (b. 1918)
- March 23 - Al Copeland, entreprenueur (b. 1944)
- March 24 - Richard Widmark, actor (b. 1914)
- March 30 - Dith Pran, photojournalist, born in Cambodia (b. 1942)
- March 31 - Jules Dassin, film director (b. 1911)
April
- April 5 - Charlton Heston, actor (b. 1923)
- April 8 - Stanley Kamel, actor (b. 1943)
- April 11 - Merlin German, soldier and charity founder (b. 1985)
- April 12 - Barbara McDermott, last American survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (b. 1912)
- April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
- April 14 - Ollie Johnston, animator (b. 1912)
- April 16 - Joe Feeney, tenor (b. 1931)
- April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
- April 17 - Danny Federici, musician (b. 1950)
- April 21 - Al Wilson, singer (b. 1939)
- April 22 - Paul Davis, musician (b. 1948)
May
- May 2 - Beverlee McKinsey, actress (b. 1940)
- May 4 - Fredric J. Baur, chemist and inventor (b. 1918)
- May 5 - Irv Robbins, entrepreneur, born in Canada (b. 1917)
- May 8 - Eddy Arnold, country music singer (b. 1918)
- May 11 - Dottie Rambo, singer (b. 1934)
- May 12 - Robert Rauschenberg, pop artist (b. 1925)
- May 13 - John Phillip Law, actor (b. 1937)
- May 15 - Alexander Courage, composer (b. 1919)
- May 15 - Willis Lamb, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- May 16 - Robert Mondavi, winemaker (b. 1913)
- May 18 - Joseph Pevney, director (b. 1911)
- May 20 - Hamilton Jordan, political strategist (b. 1944)
- May 22 - Robert Asprin, science fiction writer (b. 1946)
- May 24 - Dick Martin, comedian (b. 1922)
- May 26 - Earle Hagen, composer (b. 1919)
- May 26 - Sydney Pollack, actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)
- May 28 - Robert Justman, producer (b. 1926)
- May 29 - Harvey Korman, actor (b. 1927)
June
- June 2 - Bo Diddley, musician (b. 1928)
- June 3 - Mel Ferrer, actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
- June 6 - Dwight White, football player (b. 1949)
- June 7 - Jim McKay, television sports journalist (b. 1921)
- June 9 - Algis Budrys, science fiction writer, born in Lithuania (b. 1931)
- June 10 - John Rauch, football player and coach (b. 1927)
- June 12 - Charlie Jones, sportscaster (b. 1930)
- June 15 - Johnathan Goddard, football player (b. 1981)
- June 15 - Stan Winston, special effects and make up artist (b. 1946)
- June 17 - Cyd Charisse, actress and dancer (b. 1922)
- June 21 - Scott Kalitta, drag racer (b. 1962)
- June 21 - Kermit Love, costume designer (b. 1916)
- June 22 - George Carlin, author, actor, and comedian (b. 1937)
- June 22 - Dody Goodman, actress (b. 1914)
- June 24 - Leonid Hurwicz, economist, mathematician, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- June 27 - Polk Robison, basketball coach (b. 1912)
- June 27 - Michael Turner, comic book artist (b. 1971)
- June 13 - Tim Russert, journalist (b. 1950)
- June 29 - Don S. Davis, actor (b. 1942)
July
- July 1 - John Pont, football coach (b. 1927)
- July 1 - Mark Dean Schwab, murderer (b. 1968)
- July 3 - Larry Harmon, entertainer (b. 1925)
- July 4 - Jesse Helms, politician (b. 1921)
- July 4 - Evelyn Keyes, actress (b. 1916)
- July 4 - Terrence Kiel, football player (b. 1980)
- July 11 - Michael E. DeBakey, surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
- July 12 - Tony Snow, political commentator (b. 1955)
- July 22 - Estelle Getty, actress (b. 1923)
- July 25 - Randy Pausch, author and computer scientist (b. 1960)
August
Scheduled and expected events
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