WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 2008
Find out what all happened June to October 2008

CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7. (27. September 2008)

Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war. (7. August 2008)

India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. (22. October 2008)

Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive. (20. August 2008)

South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori. (13. August 2008)

A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. (6. August 2008)

The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (7. September 2008)

Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people. (9. June 2008)

In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding, breaking the dam holding the lake back. (9. June 2008)

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. (10. July 2008)

Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five. (29. October 2008)

President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns due to the threat of impeachment. (18. August 2008)

At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan. (8. June 2008)

"Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. (24. October 2008)

Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. (1. August 2008)

56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India. (26. July 2008)

A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others. (20. September 2008)

Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected. (16. July 2008)

Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. (1. July 2008)

The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years. (28. July 2008)