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April 3, 2008

On April 3, 2008, aTA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. The year's #1 song was "Low" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain. Hyein, Rio Ngumoha, Hudson Meek would arrive in the same year.

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The year in brief

2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.

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On April 3, 2008

  1. 2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.

    Defunct airline of the United States (1973–2008)

    , formerly known as American Trans Air and commonly referred to as ATA, was an American low-cost and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana. S. mainland and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Portugal as well as military and commercial charter flights around the world.

  2. 2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

    U.S. state

    Texas is the most populous state in the Southern United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest, that forms a natural boundary delineated by the Rio Grande. Texas has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

Farewells

Died on April 3, 2008

Hrvoje Ćustić Croatian footballer

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The class of 2008

Others born in 2008

Hyein 2008– South Korean singer
Rio Ngumoha 2008– English footballer
Hudson Meek 2008– American actor (died 2024)
Ella Gross 2008– American singer, model and actress
Ediz Gürel 2008– Turkish chess grandmaster
Rémi Himbert 2008– French footballer

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