2008
Pfizer leaves Ann Arbor, and cuts 2,100 jobs. Parke-Davis established an Ann Arbor site in 1958, merged with Warner-Lambert inn 1970, and developed Lipitor, the largest selling drug in the world, in 1997.
Price of oil hits $100 a barrel for the first time in history; stock markets plunge with U.S. recession
Global Financial Crisis: Bush signs $700 billion Economic Stabilization Act to purchase failing bank assets
Lehman Brothers files bankruptcy largest in World History at $691 Billion along with Washington Mutual which is 2nd largest at $328 billion
Taliban attempt assassination of Afghan President Karzai
Obama-Biden defeat McCain-Palin in the 2008 Presidential election
Fidel Castro resigns
Bill Gates, world's wealthiest person, resigns from Microsoft
South Ossetian War
Delta and Northwest Airlines merge
2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China; Michael Phelps wins 8 gold medals
Bobby Fischer, Richard Widmark, Charlton Heston, Heath Ledger, Roy Scheider, Suzanne Pleshette, Sydney Pollack, Tim Russert, George Carlin, Paul Newman die