Daily Almanac for
Nov 21, 2009
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2008 Year in Review

2008 Year in Review

Top events for the nation and the world

People in the News 2008

  • People in the News
    Gordon Brown • Fidel Castro • Hugo Chavez • Hillary Clinton • Radovan Karadzic • Kwame Kilpatrick • Robert Mugabe • Sarah Palin • Pervez Musharraf • Michael Phelps
  • Deaths in 2008
    George Carlin • Cyd Charisse • Jesse Helms • Charlton Heston • Sir Edmund Hillary •Heath Ledger • Paul Newman • Yves Saint-Laurent • Sydney Pollack • David Foster Wallace
Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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The Islamic year is counted from the year in which Muhammad emigrated from Mecca to Medina (622).