At A Glance

23 July 2008 at a glance

Day of the week
23 July 2008 was a Wednesday.
Irish Chart Song in 2008
The Irish chart song for 2008 was “Hallelujah” by Alexandra Burke.
Top Film of 2008
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2008 was The Dark Knight.
Star sign
The star sign for 23 July is Leo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 23 July 2008 fell in the Year of the Rat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 23 July 2008 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 23 July

  • 1999 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
  • 2001 Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
  • 2010 The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing competition The X Factor.
  • 2012 The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
  • 2015 NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.

Famous people born on 23 July

  • Woody Harrelson, American actor and activist (born 1961)
  • Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (born 1989)
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (1967–2014)
  • Kathryn Hahn, American actress (born 1973)

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Events of 2008 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2008 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 2 January – The Burlington Hotel in Dublin closed after 36 years in business with the loss of 400 jobs.
  • 12 March – Libertas lobby group launched a campaign called Facts, not politics which advocated a No vote in the Treaty of Lisbon referendum.
  • 20 May – The television puppet Dustin the Turkey failed to qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 after being knocked out at the first semi-finals stage.
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Life in Ireland in 2008

Taoiseach

Brian Cowen

Petrol (per litre)

€1.32/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.45

Average House

€300,000

Weekly Wage

€460

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