The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has formed the provincial government in Sindh consecutively since 2008.

The Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr für Tapferkeit (Cross of Honour for Valour) is the first combat valour award presented by Germany since World War II, established in 2008.

Benazir Bhutto (بینظیر بھٹو) was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Prize in 2008, shortly after her assassination.

Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' won the 1981 Booker Prize and was later awarded the 'Booker of Bookers' in 1993 and the 'Best of the Booker' in 2008, recognizing it as the best winner in the prize's history.

Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'. It tells the story of an overweight Dominican-American nerd cursed by the 'fukú' of his ancestors.

Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Booker Prize for 'The White Tiger'. The novel is a darkly comic epistolary tale about a driver in India who climbs the social ladder through corruption and murder.

The leap years were 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. That makes 4 actual birthdays (excluding the day of birth).

Iceland remained the most peaceful country in the world according to the Global Peace Index 2024, a position it has held since 2008.

Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem set a new Olympic Record with a throw of 92.97 meters, breaking the previous record held by Andreas Thorkildsen since 2008.

Arshad Nadeem set a new Olympic Record with a massive throw of 92.97 meters, breaking the previous record of 90.57m set by Andreas Thorkildsen in 2008.