The 2008 Poole Harbour bus accident is a bus crash that occured on July 31 2008 in Poole in Dorset on the south coast of England. The crash involved a Wilts and Dorset open-top bus and two cars. There have not been any fatalities reported but some of pasengers of the vehicles suf...
In 2008, numerous incidents occurred in the People's Republic of China, mostly in southern China's Guangdong region, over the selling of dog and cat meat. Both stray and domestic animals were taken to butcher shops in large quantities. Some pet owners even worried that their pets...
The 2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team will represent the University of Southern Mississippi during the 2008 college football season. The team's Head Coach is Larry Fedora, who will begin his first season as the Eagles' head coach, replacing Jeff Bower, who resigned a...
On 30 May 2008, the Pilatus PC-6 (Registration EC-JXH), carrying 10 skydivers as well as the pilot, crashed around 3km from Lillo. The 11-seater PC-6 is reported to have lost a wing at 4000 feet, causing the crash. Of the 10 skydivers on the plane, 9 managed to jump to safety; 2 ...
An ice hockey Summit Series between Canada and Russia has been proposed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The proposal was made by Bob Nicholson, president of Hockey Canada. It would feature 8 games, the first four in Russia, the next ...
The 2008 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game, played October 11, 2008, was the 103rd meeting between the University of Oklahoma and The University of Texas at Austin in a college football game. The annual game between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners is called the Red Ri...
The 2008 Turkey UFO sightings were a series of videotaped and documented UFO sightings by the 42-year-old Yalcin Yalman, a night guard in Turkey. He claims they occurred between May and September 2008, mostly while the sky was dark (between 8:00pm and 5:00am), though some of the ...
On September 11 2008, according to Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, a speculative attack against the US dollar was launched. During a closed doors session of Congress, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke revealed that there had been a $550 billion dollars electronic money market ...
The 2008 Vancouver, WA, tornado occurred in the city of Vancouver, Washington on January 10, 2008. The NWS rated this rare storm an EF1 (wind speeds of 90-110 mph). Meteorological history A rapidly advancing cold front generated a severe thunderstorm through Clark Co...
The San Jose jr. Sharks Bantam AAA team in the 08-09 season had its ups and downs. Coach Sean Castagna took this team to many high end hockey tournaments around the U.S. and Canada. The jr. Sharks competed against the top teams in the nation such as theL.A. Selects, thePursuit of...
The 2009 Agdam skirmish began on January 26, 2009 in the village of Javakhirli, Agdam region. It involved the heavy fighting between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh since the 1994 ceasefire after the Nagorno-Karabakh War.The spo...
The 2009 amateur MMA Championship was the second annual sanctioned Mixed martial arts tournament in alberta. the tournament was held over three days in lethbrige, the tournament featured the best under 18 fighters in greater alberta. It comprised eight preliminary fights, four se...
The 2009 Belleville school bus beating was an event that occurred in Belleville, Illinois, quickly drawing national attention due to the overtones of blatant bullying.The school bus beating occurred when a seventeen year old student was attacked at the hands of two younger studen...
The 2009 annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group was held in the Astir Palace resort in Athens, Greece, from 14-16 May 2009. According to an unnamed police source, the resort was protected by hundreds of police, coast guard, speedboats and two F-16 fighter planes .ParticipantsInvi...
The 2009 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game featured the Virginia Tech Hokies, of the ACC, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, of the SEC, on September 5, 2009. The game took place in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia Dome. In the 2008 edition, Alabama defeated the Clemson Tigers 34-10. It was Vir...
The 2009 Schuster World Trade Center Segments is a continuing segment series on MSNBCs 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue hosted by David Schuster. The segment aired initially on January 26th 2009 and airs to the date of this writing.1600 Pennsylvania AvenueThe show itself discusses issues...
The 2009 IDF T-Shirt controversy came to light as revelations that Israeli soldiers who took part in the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict denounced rules of engagement permitted the killing of civilians and the destruction of property. The Israel Defence Forces declared that the T-...
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The IDF T-shirt affair came to light in March 2009, following the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict, when Haaretz reported Describing this widely spread habit in the IDF, and the fact that the design was given "to the commanders", critics have stated that it is related to a lowering...
The 2009 Mardin Attack occurred on 4 May 2009 in the village of Bilge, Turkey during a wedding ceremony that killed at least 45 people. The attack was perpetrated by at least two masked assailants using grenades and automatic weapons, that witnesses say could be linked to a feud ...