Portal:Current events/2008 September 19
September 19, 2008 (Friday)
- Four people die in a plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina with Travis Barker, formerly of Blink 182, and DJ AM being critically injured. (AP via CNN)
- Financial crisis of 2007–2010
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and United Kingdom Financial Services Authority take emergency action to temporarily ban short-selling of financial companies stock. (AP via Google News)
- The United States Department of the Treasury guarantees money market mutual funds up to an amount of $50 billion to guarantee their viability. (The New York Times)
- The New York Stock Exchange responds positively to these initiatives with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 390 points. (The New York Times)
- Nigerian Oil Crisis
- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announces that it has blown up a pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell. (BBC News)
- Nigerian oil production has been reduced by 280,000 barrels per day since renewed attacks on oil facilities began. (Bloomberg)
- Professor Stephen Hawking unveils the Corpus Clock, a 'terrifying' new way to read the time, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England. (BBC News)
- Travis Barker, drummer of Pop Punk band Blink-182 suffers life threatening injuries in a plane crash. (Today.com)