2008 in Spain

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See also:	Other events of 2008 List of years in Spain

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

Incumbents

• Monarch: Juan Carlos I^[1]
• Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Regional presidents

Events

• March 9 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is reelected as Prime Minister after defeating Mariano Rajoy.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• August 20 – Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.^[4]
• December 31 – A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.^[5]
• 942 Dakar, historia de una familia, a documentary film is released.^[6]

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

Years in Spain (1492–present)