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2008 in Spain

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The following lists events that happened during 2008 in the Kingdom of Spain.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Juan Carlos I
  • Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

    • March

  • March 9 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is reelected as Prime Minister after defeating Mariano Rajoy.

    • April

  • April 5 - Greenpeace announces that in November 2007 a radioactive leak was reported at the Ascó Nuclear Power Plant, but it was kept hidden from the press.

    • August

  • August 20 - Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after take off from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.

    • December

  • December 31 - A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.

    • Deaths

  • May 3: Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister (1981–82)

    • References

    2008 in Spain Wikipedia
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