Timeline November 2008

Events in November 2008 6

• 1932 – 2008 Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) Died 9 November 2008, aged 76 South African singer and civil rights activist known as "Mama Africa," celebrated for songs like "Pata Pata" and for her outspoken opposition to apartheid. She collapsed on stage in Italy after a concert and died shortly after.
• 1942 – 2008 Michael Crichton (1942-2008) Died 4 November 2008, aged 66 American author and filmmaker best known for the novel Jurassic Park and for creating the television series ER. His technology-driven thrillers sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.
• 2008 Intel Core i7 — Nehalem architecture Intel introduces the Core i7 processor family in November 2008, based on the new Nehalem microarchitecture. Nehalem integrates the memory controller directly onto the processor die — previously it was in a separate chip — reducing latency and increasing memory bandwidth dramatically. The Core i7 establishes the i3/i5/i7 brand hierarchy that Intel uses for the next fifteen years. Nehalem is the foundation of Intel's server dominance: Xeon processors based on Nehalem power the majority of the world's data centres through the 2010s.
• 2008 Barack Obama elected president First African American US President Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, becoming the first African American to hold the office.
• 2008 Somali pirates hijack the MV Sirius Star Supertanker seized far off the East African coast Somali pirates hijacked the Saudi-owned supertanker MV Sirius Star on 15 November 2008, some 450 nautical miles off the Kenyan coast. The seizure of a vessel carrying $100 million in crude oil highlighted the growing threat of piracy in the region.
• 2008 Mumbai terror attacks Coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across the city Ten gunmen from the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out coordinated attacks across Mumbai from 26 to 29 November 2008, targeting hotels, a railway station and a Jewish center. More than 160 people were killed in the siege, which was broadcast live around the world.