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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
Events
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
.
Births
Deaths
May 3:
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
, Prime Minister