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Top 10 Events of 2008

Created by cerridwen66 on May 20, 2008

Last updated: 03/10/10 at 10:30 PM

• Oil prices above $135 per barrel
  May 21, 2008

  
  http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/22/markets/oil.ap/index.htm

• More childen may be on polygamist ranch
  May 20, 2008

  
  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356965,00.html

• Discovery of asbestos closes New Jersey middle school
  May 19, 2008

  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Asbestos_discovery_triggers_evacuation_and_closure_of_New_Jersey_middle_school

• Massive earthquake strikes China, killing at least 34,000
  May 11, 2008

  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mourning_ceremonies_for_earthquake_begin_throughout_China

• Kentucky Derby runner-up breaks down; Big Brown victorious
  May 2, 2008

  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Big_Brown_victorious_in_Kentucky_Derby%2C_runner-up_Eight_Belles_breaks_down

• Cyclone sweeps through Myanmar, killing at least 78,000
  May 1, 2008

  
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121127425489906671.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

• Austrian man released daughter from basement prison after 24 years
  Apr 25, 2008

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Fritzl

• Pope Benedict XVI visits United States
  Apr 20, 2008

  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Pope_concludes_visit_to_US_with_Mass_at_Yankee_Stadium

• State of Texas removes 358 children from radical polygamist sect
  Apr 4, 2008

  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331909.stm

• GHB and lead paint found to be used in making of the Bindeez-Beads toys in Australia
  Jan 23, 2008

  
  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_found_to_be_used_in_the_manufacture_of_toys