2008: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

2008 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Predicted Events

• January - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the first of three flybys of Mercury.
• February 1 - Sweden plans to cease analog television broadcasts
• February 7 - Annular solar eclipse
• March 23 - Easter Sunday. Easter has not fallen this early since 1913.
• March 28 - Sunday. The Death of Edgar Ham Louise.
• August 1 - Total solar eclipse
• September 11 - Topping out of Freedom Tower at World Trade Center site
• October - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second of three flybys of Mercury.
• November 4 - Presidential election slated in the United States.
• 2008 Summer Olympics scheduled in Beijing, China
• 2008 European Football Championship (EURO 2008) scheduled to be held in Austria and Switzerland.
• Quebec plans to host first stage of Tour de France
• Liverpool is European Capital of Culture
• Tentative year for the completion of the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the International Business Center in Seoul, South Korea