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Top Song(s)
• Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
• Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
• Pink - So What
• Katy Perry - Hot 'n' cold
• Jason Mraz - I am Yours
Top Film(s)
• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• WALL·E
• Let the Right One In
• In Bruges
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
• The Host - Stephenie Meyer
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
• City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare
Famous Deaths
• January 11 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain
• February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru who developed Transcendental Meditation
• March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German writer and computer scientist
• April 12 - Patrick 'Paddy' Hillery, 6th President of Ireland
• May 1 - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President
• June 7 - Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt (1978-80)
• July 10 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana
• August 19 - Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (3rd President of Zambia)
• November 1 - Jacques Piccard, Swiss deep sea explorer (one of the first to explore the Mariana Trench)
• December 4 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American literary agent and writer who invented the term "sci-fi"
Medical/Science/Technology
• Researchers identify a gene linked to cerebral venous thrombosis, a condition that causes blood clots that can lead to stroke.
• SanDisk Corporation begins to sample 12-gigabyte (GB) microSDHC flash memory cards.
• An international study of 20,000 people discovers seven genes that influence blood cholesterol levels.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a new medical adhesive – a fibrin sealant called Artiss.
• A handheld 3D imaging device is developed for use in forensics and medical imaging.
• Spanish surgeon Paolo Macchiarini carries out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant.
• A hybrid human-cow embryo survives a third straight day after being fertilized at Newcastle University, England.
• The Cassini spacecraft orbits within 62 mi of Enceladus, its closest encounter yet with the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.
• An American scientist creates the darkest known material, around four times darker than the previous record holder.
• NASA begins a collaboration to investigate the potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors.
Political
• January 3 – Joe Biden drops out of the running for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
• January 9 – President George W. Bush begins a tour of the Middle East with a stop in Israel.
• January 10 – Bill Richardson drops out of the U.S. presidential election due to shortage of money.
• January 18 – President George W. Bush announces an economic stimulus package.
• January 28 – President George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union address.
• January 30 – U.S. presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards drop out of the race.
• February 7 - The Senate passes a $170 billion economic stimulus package by a margin of 81–16.
• February 7 - Mitt Romney suspends his campaign of the Republican Party nomination for the U.S. presidency.
• March 4 – John McCain secures the 2008 U.S. Republican Party presidential nomination.
• October 3 – 2007–2008 financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
National
• January 5 – A levee bursts in Fernley, Nevada, flooding a large portion of the town and forcing the evacuations of 3,500 residents.
• February 1 – The Food and Drug Administration issues a Public Health Advisory on Chantix.
• February 5–6 – Super Tuesday tornado outbreak: A tornado outbreak, the deadliest in 23 years, kills 58 in the Southern United States.
• February 17 – The USDA recalls 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse.
• March 13 – The colorized $5 bill is released, with nearly all of the features of the earlier colorized currency.
• March 26 – Former First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan endorses John McCain for the presidency.
• April 20 – Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win a top-level sanctioned open wheel car racing event.
• June 11 – Four Boy Scouts are killed and 48 others are injured when a tornado strikes Little Sioux Scout Ranch in Little Sioux, Iowa.
• August 15 – The U.S. government condemns the Russian invasion of the Caucasian country of Georgia.
• September 12 – A Metrolink train collides head-on into a freight train in Los Angeles, California, killing 25 and injuring 130.
Worldwide
• January 24 – A peace deal is signed in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ending the Kivu conflict.
• March 25 – African Union and Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan, returning the island to Comorian control.
• May 3 – Cyclone Nargis passes through Myanmar, killing more than 138,000 people.
• May 12 – An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.
• June 14 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, kills 12 and injures more than 400.
• August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashes at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 154 people on board.
• September 5 – Quentin Bryce becomes the first female Governor-General of Australia.
• October 22 – The Indian Space Research Organization successfully launches the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration mission.
• November 19 – Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ.
• December 23 – A military coup deposes the government of Guinea shortly after the death of longtime President Lansana Conte.