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Current events of
September 4, 2008
(
2008-09-04
)
(Thursday)
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Senator
John McCain
officially accepts the nomination of the
Republican Party
in the
United States presidential election, 2008
.
(
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)
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)
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