2008

Predicted events

January

• January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the first of three flybys of Mercury.

February

• February 1 - Sweden plans to cease analog television broadcasts
• February 3 - Super Bowl XLII to be held in Glendale, Arizona.
• February 7 - Annular solar eclipse

March

• March 23 - Easter Sunday. Easter has not fallen this early since 1913.

April

• April 5 to April 7 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

May

• May 16 - Presidential election slated in the Dominican Republic.

June

• June - UEFA Euro 2008 Championship tournament. Joint hosts Switzerland and Austria

July

August

• August 1 - Total solar eclipse
• August 8 - 2008 Summer Olympics scheduled to begin in Beijing, China

September

• September 11 - Topping out of Freedom Tower at World Trade Center site

October

• October 6 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second of three flybys of Mercury.

November

• November 4 - Presidential election slated in the United States.
• November 26 - If still Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair will surpass Margaret Thatcher's length of time in office.

December

Unknown dates

• 2008 European Football Championship (EURO 2008) scheduled to be held in Austria and Switzerland.
• Both Liverpool (England) and Stavanger (Norway) are 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
• Forecasted year of worldwide production decline in oil given by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
• Forecasted year of OPEC oil production exceeding non-OPEC oil production given by "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan

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