January 2008
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Template:Portal:Current events/January 2008/Calendar January 2008 is the first month of the current year. It began on a Tuesday and will end after 31 days on a Thursday. It is the current month.
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[edit] Scheduled events
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- January 8 - 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: New Hampshire Primary
- January 9 - Singapore Changi Airport's Terminal 3 is due to be completed on this day.
- January 11 - Chipak Ke Jeetho - An endurance test organised by BIG 92.7 FM across Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad in association with Hyundai Motors.
- January 12 - 2008 Taiwanese legislative election
- January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first of three flybys of Mercury at 200 km altitude, to decrease velocity enough to a 2011 orbit insertion.
- January 18 - The film Cloverfield is released.
- January 19 - Parliamentary elections in the Faroe Islands.
- January 19 - The state of Nevada will hold its presidential caucus, sandwiching itself between what, to date, had been the two earliest votes on the candidacy for U.S. presidents, the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.
- January 20 - Scheduled opening ceremony of the 2008 African Cup of Nations to be held in Ghana.
[edit] International holidays
- January 1 - New Year's Day
- January 7 - Christmas (Orthodox)
- January 14 - Old New Year (Orthodox)
- January 1 - Haiti Independence Day
[edit] References
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