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• Our National Football Team played in the semi-finals at the 2008 European Championship.

• The Türksat 3A satellite was launched into space.

• The ban on smoking tobacco in public and indoor areas went into effect.

• Galatasaray declared its 17th championship.

• Kosovo declared its independence.

• We participated in the Eurovision Song Contest with Mor ve Ötesi’s song “Deli” and finished in 7th place.

• NASA’s unmanned Phoenix spacecraft became the first vehicle to land in Mars’ north polar region.

• The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing, the capital of China.

• The SpaceX Falcon 1 became the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully reach orbit.

• The music streaming service Spotify was launched in Sweden.

• Satoshi Nakamoto published “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.

• Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States.

• Yuri Glazkov, the first human to go into space, passed away.

• The “Number Portability” application, which allows mobile phone subscribers to switch to another operator without changing their numbers, was launched.