Portal:Current events/2008 September 4
September 4, 2008 (Thursday)
- Senator John McCain officially accepts the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2008 United States presidential election. (The New York Times)
- Former United States political lobbyist Jack Abramoff is sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the Jack Abramoff scandals. (CBS)
- The death toll from flooding in Haiti caused by Tropical Storm Hanna rises to 61. (CNN)
- The Government of Thailand agrees to hold a referendum to resolve the 2008 Thai political crisis. (AP via Google News)[permanent dead link]
- Tata Motors suspends work at its Tata Nano plant at Singur, West Bengal, due to continued agitations from the Trinamul Congress. (The Hindu)
- Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report the discovery of the
Ω−
b, a "doubly-strange" baryon containing two strange quarks and a bottom quark. (Science Daily)