January 1, 2008 (2008-01-01) (Tuesday)
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January 15, 2008 (2008-01-15) (Tuesday)
January 16, 2008 (2008-01-16) (Wednesday)
- The proposed lyrics for the Spanish national anthem are withdrawn. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
- The discovery of Tahina spectabilis, a palm in northern Madagascar that dies after flowering, is announced. (BBC News)
- Three United States Army soldiers are killed and another two wounded by small arms fire in the northern Salahuddin province of Iraq. (Reuters)
- War in Somalia (2006–2009): A huge blast in Mogadishu targeted an Ethiopian army convoy as it drove through a major intersection, killing seven soldiers on board, witnesses reported. (Garowe Online)
- War in Pakistan (2004–present); Sararogha Fort raid: Islamic militants overrun and capture a Pakistani military outpost, Sararogha Fort, close to the Afghan border in a battle that kills seven Pakistani soldiers and leaves 20 missing. The Pakistani military claims 50 attackers also died. (AP via Google News)
- Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister, resigns from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with 10 party colleagues resigning from the government as well. (AFP via Google News)
- The Israel Defense Forces are dispatched to evacuate two settlements on the West Bank. (AP via Google News)
- A roadside bomb hits a bus in Buttala in southeastern Sri Lanka killing at least 23 people and injuring 67 others. (AP via Yahoo! News) (CNN)
- Sun Microsystems announces the acquisition of MySQL AB, a leading open source relational database management system vendor, for US$1 billion. (AP via Google News)
January 17, 2008 (2008-01-17) (Thursday)
January 18, 2008 (2008-01-18) (Friday)
January 19, 2008 (2008-01-19) (Saturday)
January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20) (Sunday)
January 21, 2008 (2008-01-21) (Monday)
- A Turkish court bans YouTube for the second time. Because of clips deemed disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (PhysOrg.com)
- An Israeli TecSAR spy satellite is launched aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. (PhysOrg.com)
- President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez disallows the exportation of agricultural goods and promises to nationalize any farm that does. (BBC News)
- 2008 stock market downturn:
- Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis. (BBC News) (thisislondon.co.uk)
- North American Markets: U.S. markets are closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Stock futures are down, with March contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average trading 482 points lower to 11,624. S&P 500 futures are also down 55 points to 1,270.10 and NASDAQ-100 futures are down 72.25 points to 1,777.25. The Toronto Stock Exchange loses over 500 points during morning trading at 12,233. (MarketWatch) (CBC)
- European Markets: The French CAC 40 index closes down 6.8% at 4,744.45, the German DAX 30 index closes down 7.2% at 6,790.19, and the UK's FTSE 100 index closes down 5.5% at 5,578.20. (MarketWatch)
- Asian Markets: The Indian Sensex is down 1,408.35 points, or 7.4%, to 17,605.35, tumbling a record 11% down at one point in the day. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ends the day down 5.5% at 23,818.86. Japan's Nikkei falls 3.9% to 13,436.94. (MarketWatch)
- A gas explosion at an illegal mine in Shanxi, China kills at least 20. (BBC News)
- Former Liberian warlord Joshua Milton Blahyi confesses that he is responsible for at least 20,000 deaths during the First Liberian Civil War. (CNN)
- The Na-Dene language of Eyak goes extinct with the death of Marie Smith Jones, its last native speaker. (BBC)
January 22, 2008 (2008-01-22) (Tuesday)
January 23, 2008 (2008-01-23) (Wednesday)
January 24, 2008 (2008-01-24) (Thursday)
January 25, 2008 (2008-01-25) (Friday)
January 26, 2008 (2008-01-26) (Saturday)
January 27, 2008 (2008-01-27) (Sunday)
Indonesian president Soeharto died in 27 January 2008
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- 5: Georgia, President, NATO referendum and election date referendum
- 7: Marshall Islands, President
- 9: Kosovo, President
- 12: Republic of China (Taiwan), Parliament. referendum
- 15: Barbados, Parliament
- 19: Faroe Islands, Parliament
- 20: Cuba, Parliament
- 20: Serbia, President (1st round)
- 27: French Polynesia, Legislative (1st Round)
- 29: Bhutan, National Council
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