• Source: 2008 in Spain

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


      Incumbents


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


      = Regional presidents

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      Events


      March 9 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is reelected as Prime Minister after defeating Mariano Rajoy.
      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 20 – Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.
      December 31 – A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.
      942 Dakar, historia de una familia, a documentary film is released.


      Births


      11 August – Levi Díaz, Singer


      Deaths


      February 26 – Rogelio Baón, politician (born 1942)
      May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister (1981–82)


      See also


      2008 in Spanish television
      List of Spanish films of 2008


      References

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