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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2008.
Daily events
Friday February 1, 2008
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 91 people died in two suicide bombings.
- Pakistan : The United States is militarily active in northern Pakistan and reports the assassination of the terrorist Abu Laith al-Libi , who was considered to be the leading head of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda .
Saturday February 2, 2008
- N'Djamena / Chad : Rebels attack the capital.
- Paris / France : French President Nicolas Sarkozy marries model Carla Bruni just four months after his divorce from Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz was announced .
Sunday February 3, 2008
- Belgrade / Serbia : In the run-off election for the presidential election between Tomislav Nikolić and Boris Tadić , Tadić wins razor-thin.
- DR Congo , Rwanda : Two earthquakes shake Central Africa: The first quake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a magnitude of 6.0; the second quake has a strength of 5.0 M w and shakes the border area between Congo and Rwanda, killing at least 39 people.
- Glendale / United States : The New York Giants win the 42nd Super Bowl against the New England Patriots . It is her third Super Bowl win and her seventh championship title overall.
- Ludwigshafen / Germany : Nine people die in a house fire, including five children.
- Washington, DC / United States : According to today's proposal by the Bush administration, the state budget should reach the highest balance in its history with a deficit of 400 billion US dollars (276.7 billion euros ) .
Tuesday February 5, 2008
- Munich / Germany : Following a request from the left-wing parliamentary group , the federal government announced that the military was being deployed in Germany at the security conference in Munich , which the newspaper Die Zeit rated as a circumvention of the constitution.
- United States : According to the " Super Tuesday " of primaries for the presidential election in November is considered John McCain as the clear favorite and top candidate of the Republicans . The decision has not yet been made in the Democratic Party . Barack Obama continues to see himself as an "underdog" after Hillary Clinton receives more delegate votes.
- United States : A violent storm front with tornadoes , hail and rain sweeps across the southern states, killing at least 54 people.
Wednesday February 6, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : Matthias Brandt and Ulrike Krumbiegel are awarded the Golden Camera as best German actors .
- Paris / France : The new government under Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of damaging the European Union and diplomatic tensions arise. A Mediterranean Union planned by France will split the member states of the EU.
- Rome / Italy : President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Italian Parliament, the Prodi cabinet sets the dates for new elections on April 13th and 14th .
Thursday February 7, 2008
- Antarctica , Australia , New Zealand : An annular solar eclipse with a peak of 2 minutes 12 seconds can be observed from many places in the southern hemisphere.
- Berlin / Germany : The 58th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film Shine a Light by director Martin Scorsese . The Zoo Palast serves as the location of the “Panorama Section”, but the organizers are calling for its renovation.
- Cape Canaveral / United States : At 8.45 p.m. CET , the space shuttle Atlantis starts for the STS-122 mission , which will bring the Columbus space laboratory to the international space station and install it there.
- Ludwigshafen / Germany : The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comes to the apartment building in the city center that burned down on Sunday in the late afternoon . There he meets Prime Minister Kurt Beck for a meeting . Contrary to his public suspicions of the last few days about xenophobia against people of Turkish origin , Erdoğan is now criticizing the Turkish media that also speculated about xenophobia.
- Paris / France : After the National Assembly and the Senate , President Nicolas Sarkozy ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union . France is the first country to complete ratification of the treaty.
- Wolfegg / Germany : By press reports is known that the Medieval house book on Schloss Wolfegg from the late 15th century and has been for 350 years held at the castle, the head of the House John Graf zu Waldburg-Wolfegg for around 20 million euros to a not mentioned private collector was sold.
Friday February 8, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presents the plan to send Turkish teachers and professors to Germany to establish Turkish-speaking schools and universities.
- Egg / Austria : 11 people die in a fire in a retirement home in the Bregenzerwald in Vorarlberg .
- Port Wentworth / United States : At least six people die and more than 60 people are seriously injured in the explosion of a sugar factory near Savannah in the US state of Georgia .
Saturday February 9, 2008
- Nicosia / Cyprus : The presidential election in the Republic of Cyprus takes place.
- United States : Barack Obama wins the 2008 US presidential primaries in the Democratic Party in Louisiana , Nebraska , Washington and the US Virgin Islands and can close the gap on Hillary Clinton ; in the Republican Party , Mike Huckabee wins in Kansas and narrowly in Louisiana, John McCain wins narrowly in Washington and remains the front runner.
Sunday February 10, 2008
- Accra / Ghana : Defending champions Egypt win 1-0 against Cameroon in the final of the 26th African Cup .
- Augusta / United States : Barack Obama wins the preselection of the Democratic Party for the presidential election in the United States in 2008 in Maine , just slightly behind Hillary Clinton .
- Glarus / Switzerland : Pankraz Freitag is elected to the Council of States as a replacement for the resigned Fritz Schiesser .
- London / United Kingdom : The literary film Atonement by British director Joe Wright received the highest British film award, the BAFTA Award, for best film of the year, while last year's German-speaking Oscar winner The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck did not receive the award for best -English-language production is awarded.
- Los Angeles / United States : At the 2008 Grammy Awards , the British soul singer Amy Winehouse (5 wins) and the American hip-hop musician Kanye West (4 wins) become the most successful artists.
- Zurich / Switzerland : In Europe's largest armed art theft to date, unknown perpetrators steal the paintings Bloeiende kastanjetak by Vincent van Gogh , Champ de coquelicots près de Vétheuil by Claude Monet , Comte Lepic et ses filles by Edgar Degas and Le garçon au gilet rouge by Paul Cézanne im Total value of 180 million Swiss francs from the E. G. Bührle collection .
Monday February 11, 2008
- Dili / East Timor : The President of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta , is seriously injured in an attack.
Tuesday February 12, 2008
- Los Angeles / United States : The writers of the Writers Guild of America end their more than three month strike . In the vote, more than 90% of the authors vote for an immediate end to the strike and thus for the present collective agreement.
- United States : In the primaries for the 2008 US presidential election , the Democratic Party Barack Obama also wins the primaries in Maryland , Virginia and Washington, DC , and currently has the most delegate votes in the sum of all primaries. John McCain of the Republican Party wins also all votes in the same areas.
- Würzburg / Germany : The Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau Robert Zollitsch is elected at the spring plenary assembly of the German bishops to succeed Karl Lehmann as chairman of the German Bishops' Conference.
Wednesday February 13, 2008
- Wiesbaden / Germany : The Hessian minister of education Karin Wolff announces her resignation and will no longer be available in a new Hessian state government.
Thursday February 14, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The German Bundestag passes a law to revise the law on renewable energies in the electricity sector , according to which the share of renewable energies in the German power supply is to be increased to 25 to 30 percent in 2020.
- Bonn , Cologne / Germany : The CEO of Deutsche Post AG, Klaus Zumwinkel , is suspected of evading one million euros in taxes . His office in Bonn and his private house in Cologne are searched. An arrest warrant against him will not be carried out because Zumwinkel is cooperative and offers a security deposit.
- DeKalb / United States : In a rampage at Northern Illinois University , a black-clad gunman shoots five people and then himself. 16 other people are injured. The shooter was a former university student.
Friday February 15, 2008
- Chicago / United States : The multimillionaire Steve Fossett , who has been missing for five months, is pronounced dead by a court in the United States. He took off on a small plane in Nevada on September 3 and then disappeared without a trace. Fossett was famous for his daring world record attempts.
Saturday February 16, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The 58th Berlin Film Festival ends with the award of the Golden Bear to the Brazilian contribution Tropa de Elite by José Padilha . With silver bears u. a. the actors Sally Hawkins ( Happy-Go-Lucky ) and Reza Naji ( The Song of Sparrows ), as well as the Oscar- nominated American director Paul Thomas Anderson ( There Will Be Blood ). The German competition entries will not receive a prize.
Sunday February 17, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival honors the film Tropa de Elite by director José Padilha as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
- Kandahar / Afghanistan : The worst suicide attack in the country's history kills at least 80 people and injures 90 others in the city of Kandahar.
- Pristina / Serbia : At an extraordinary meeting of the Parliament of Kosovo is independence from Serbia proclaimed. The former autonomous province in the Serbian republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and today's part of the Republic of Serbia, which is predominantly inhabited by Albanians , has for decades been in an increasingly violent conflict with its northern neighbor, who does not recognize the current unilateral split.
Monday February 18, 2008
Tuesday February 19, 2008
- Havana / Cuba : Head of State Fidel Castro announces his resignation.
- Luxembourg / Luxembourg : Parliament adopts the law on euthanasia and assisted suicide .
- Tournai / Belgium : In an attack on the Notre-Dame Cathedral , a total of 13 chalices, bishop's rings and crosses are stolen. Including a Byzantine cross that was donated to the cathedral in 1205 and that is said to contain a piece of wood from the cross of Jesus. The total value of the stolen objects is estimated at 40 million euros.
- United States : Barack Obama wins the primaries for the US presidency of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin and Hawaii , further expanding the lead over Hillary Clinton . In the Republicans , John McCain wins in Wisconsin and in the Washington by-elections .
- Zurich / Switzerland : Two of the total of four paintings that were stolen from the Bührle collection last week turned up in the parking lot of a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. It was a picture each by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet
Wednesday February 20, 2008
- Berlin / Germany : The Federal Republic of Germany recognizes the state sovereignty of Kosovo .
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The space shuttle Atlantis has safely returned to earth with the German Hans Schlegel . She landed on schedule in Cape Canaveral at 3:07 p.m. CET . The mission had attached the Columbus research laboratory to the ISS space station .
- Pacific : The US Navy shoots down the runaway spy satellite USA 193 filled with poisonous hydrazine from the cruiser USS Lake Erie near Hawaii with an SM-3 missile at an altitude of around 210 km .
Thursday February 21, 2008
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- Sagaing region / Myanmar : Work on the Buddhist statue Laykyun Setkyar , which began in 1996, will be completed on Po Khaung Hill . The 116 m high sculpture represents the awakened Siddhartha Gautama .
- Venezuela : A Venezuelan ATR 42-300 turboprop aircraft belonging to the Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer Avions de Transport Régional crashed over the Andes . All 46 passengers were killed.
- Total lunar eclipse
Friday February 22, 2008
- Ankara / Turkey : Prime Minister Abdullah Gül approves the lifting of the headscarf ban at Turkish universities and colleges.
- Braunschweig / Germany : The regional court of Braunschweig sentenced Klaus Volkert to two years and nine months in prison for aiding and abetting and inciting unfaithfulness . Volkert gained more than two million euros in the VW corruption affair.
- Iraq : The Turkish army launched a ground offensive in northern Iraq involving an estimated 10,000 soldiers. During the clashes with the PKK there was heavy resistance. According to Turkey, the neighboring country is used as a retreat for extremists. The PKK, which is also classified by the EU as a terrorist organization, controls attacks and attacks in Turkey from northern Iraq. Turkish soldiers, police officers, Kurdish village guards and bystanders also die again and again.
- Jülich / Germany : Jugene , the fastest supercomputer in the world for civil use , has been inaugurated at Forschungszentrum Jülich .
- London / United Kingdom : Steven Wright, known as the " Strangler of Ipswich ", is sentenced to life imprisonment for five times the murder of prostitutes.
Saturday February 23, 2008
- New York / United States : The Ukrainian box -Profi Wladimir Klitschko , heavyweight champion of the Association of International Boxing Federation , defeated the champions in the heavyweight division of the Association World Boxing Organization Sultan Ibragimov of Russia on points and now holds the title of both associations.
Sunday February 24, 2008
- Hamburg / Germany : In the general election the CDU achieved 42.6%, the SPD 34.1%, the Greens 9.6%, the Left 6.4% and the FDP 4.8%. Ole von Beust announces preliminary talks on equal terms for a coalition with the SPD and the Greens.
- Iskandirijah / Iraq : In a group of Shiite pilgrims in the city south of Baghdad , a suicide bomber blows himself up, killing at least 40 people and injuring 60 others.
- Los Angeles / United States : At the 2008 Academy Awards , No Country for Old Men was honored as best film, for which Ethan and Joel Coen also received the Oscar for best director. Daniel Day-Lewis wins the Oscar for best leading actor for his role in There Will Be Blood , Marion Cotillard for her role in La vie en rose as best leading actress. The Oscar for the best foreign language film goes to Austria for the first time with Die Fälscher .
- Nicosia / Cyprus : presidential election
Monday February 25, 2008
- Saarbrücken / Germany : Saarland's Prime Minister Peter Müller speaks out in favor of the final end of coal mining in Saarland after the 4.0 earthquake on Saturday . There will be no "new open-ended experiment," he said.
- Vaduz / Liechtenstein : The tax affair in Germany in 2008 affects other Liechtenstein banks, in addition to the LGT Bank of the Liechtenstein Princely House , including the Liechtenstein subsidiary of the Swiss bank Vontobel .
Tuesday February 26, 2008
- Hanover / Germany : The state parliament elects Christian Wulff ( CDU ) as prime minister of Lower Saxony for the second time .
- Spitzbergen / Norway : The worldwide seed bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault is officially inaugurated.
Wednesday February 27, 2008
- Bern / Switzerland , Vienna / Austria : The Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic recognize the state sovereignty of Kosovo .
- Brussels / Belgium : Microsoft has been fined EUR 899 million. It is the highest penalty ever imposed by the EU Commission against a single company .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The company RWE is defeated in the legal dispute regarding the extension of the lifetime of the Biblis A nuclear power plant .
- Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court declares the practice of online searches to be compatible with the Basic Law only if there are actual indications of a concrete danger for an extremely important legal asset.
Friday February 29, 2008
- Germany : Hurricane Emma reaches Germany; the wind will reach 12 bf by March 1st.
- Hamburg / Germany : The Armenian boxer Susianna Kentikian, who lives in Germany, defends her double flyweight championship belt against the Filipino Sarah Goodson .
See also
- Nekrolog February 2008 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in February
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in February
Web links
Commons : February 2008 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ At least 91 dead in Baghdad pet market bombings. In: thestar.com . February 1, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Abu Laith Al-Libi. In: washingtonpost.com . February 1, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Chad and Kenya overshadowed peaks. In: derstandard.at . February 2, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ lci.fr: Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni mariés! ( Memento of February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- ↑ Tagesschau: A wafer-thin victory for President Tadic (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on February 4, 2008)
- ↑ Yahoo News: Earthquakes in Rwanda and Congo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (accessed on February 4, 2008)
- ↑ Giants stun 18-0 Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. In: usatoday.com . February 3, 2017, accessed August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ n-tv news: House is on fire . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
- ↑ Bush Proposes Budget With $ 400B Deficit. In: cbsnews.com . February 3, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Bush leaves $ 400 billion in debt. In: rp-online.de . February 4, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Armed in front of the hotel. In: Zeit Online . February 5, 2008, accessed January 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Torsten Krauel: Super Tuesday - Republicans: John McCain is a clear favorite as the top candidate . In: THE WORLD . February 6, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed November 5, 2018]).
- ↑ n-tv news: Obama wants to persevere . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
- ↑ n-tv news: At least 54 dead . In: n-tv.de . ( n-tv.de [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
- ↑ 43rd award. In: goldenekamera.de . Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
- ^ Handelsblatt: Paris alienates Berlin with the Mediterranean Union
- ↑ Italy elects a new parliament in mid-April. In: reuters.com . February 6, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ The world premiere of Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light opens the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. In: berlinale.de . January 15, 2008, accessed March 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Time: Himmelsstürmer Europa (found on February 7, 2008)
- ↑ "It was completely irrational". In: rheinpfalz.de . February 3, 2018, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ^ French yes to the Lisbon Treaty. In: nzz.ch . February 7, 2008, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ^ Sonja Klinker: Maghrebians in France, Turks in Germany . Peter Lang Publishing Group , Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59940-2 , p. 82 .
- ↑ Tagesschau: Eleven dead in fire in old people's home (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on February 9, 2008)
- ↑ n-tv.de : Sugar factory explodes ( Memento from February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obama cruises as Clinton shakes up campaign. In: reuters.com . February 10, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Huckabee wins Kansas! In: theguardian.com . February 9, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Africa Cup 2008 in Ghana. weltfussball.de, accessed on November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Tagesschau: Obama wins area code in Maine (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on February 10, 2008)
- ↑ Report on NZZ-Online
- ↑ cf. The standard: BAFTA: "Atonement" honored as best film (February 11, 2008)
- ↑ Five Grammys for Amy Winehouse. In: brigitte.de . January 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Spectacular art theft in Zurich, call for witnesses. In: polizei-schweiz.ch . February 11, 2008, accessed May 9, 2019 .
- ↑ WeltOnline: President Ramos-Horta after being attacked in a coma (accessed on February 11, 2007)
- ↑ The show can go on. In: tagesspiegel.de . February 14, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Tagesschau: Obama leaves Clinton behind (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on February 13, 2008)
- ^ German Bishops' Conference: Press release on the election of Zollitsch ( Memento of February 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ WeltOnline: Minister of Education Wolff resigns (found on February 13, 2008)
- ↑ Bundestag: Draft of a law to revise the law of renewable energies in the electricity sector (found on February 23, 2008; PDF; 1.9 MB)
- ^ Liechtenstein tax affair becomes known. In: wdr.de . February 14, 2013, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Wikinews: Six dead in campus shooting at Northern Illinois University (English)
- ↑ cf. Golden Bear for "Tropa de Elite" (Accessed February 19, 2008)
- ↑ Golden Bear - The Best Films from Berlin (Berlinale). In: moviepilot.de . Retrieved March 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Yahoo-Nachrichten: At least 80 dead in suicide attack in Afghanistan ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed February 17, 2008)
- ↑ Future plan never realized ( Memento from February 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Reuters: Musharraf's rivals head for big win in Pakistan vote
- ^ Reuters: Castro stepping down as Cuba's leader
- ↑ Active euthanasia legalized. In: n-tv.de . February 20, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
- ^ Spiegel Online: Art theft in Belgium
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Obama also gets Hawaii and Wisconsin (tagesschau.de archive) (Retrieved February 20, 2008)
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Zurich art theft (tagesschau.de archive)
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: The Atlantis crew has returned home (tagesschau.de archive) (accessed on February 20, 2008)
- ↑ derStandard.at: US Navy shot down spy satellites that got out of control (accessed February 21, 2008)
- ↑ Top 10 tallest statues of the World. In: indiatvnews.com. July 14, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost Online: 46 dead in plane crash in Venezuela ( Memento from April 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 22, 2008)
- ↑ Almost three years imprisonment for works council chief Volkert. In: rp-online.de . January 22, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ PKK reports of violent fighting with Turkish troops
- Jump up ↑ "Youth" in Jülich. In: rp-online.de . January 22, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- Jump up ↑ Ipswich Strangler locked up for life. (Accessed February 22, 2008)
- ↑ This is Wladimir Klitschko. In: rtl.de . August 4, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
- ^ NDR Online: Von Beust invites the SPD and the Greens to soundings ( Memento from February 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved February 25, 2008)
- ↑ Yahoo-Nachrichten: At least 40 dead in suicide attack in Iraq ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed February 24, 2008)
- ↑ new-award.de
- ↑ sr-online.de: coal mining probably before the end ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed February 26, 2008)
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Liechtenstein affair affects other banks (found on February 26, 2008)
- ^ The election of the Prime Ministers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. (PDF) In: nomos.de , material from NordÖR . September 2013, accessed on October 21, 2017 : "Day of the Prime Minister's Election, Name of the Prime Minister"
- ↑ Arctic Seed Vault opens its doors to 100 million seeds. EurekAlert, February 26, 2008, accessed February 25, 2018.
- ↑ Tagesspiegel: EU is tackling Microsoft tougher (accessed on February 27, 2008)
- ↑ RWE fails in court (accessed on February 27, 2008)
- ↑ Regulations in the Constitutional Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia on online searches and information on the Internet are void. In: bundesverfassungsgericht.de . February 27, 2008, accessed November 22, 2018 .
