Editing 2008 (section)

===September===
* [[September 5]] – [[Quentin Bryce]] becomes the first female [[Governor-General of Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/biography-honourable-dame-quentin-bryce-ad-cvo| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819144932/https://www.gg.gov.au/biography-honourable-dame-quentin-bryce-ad-cvo| archive-date=2021-08-19|title=Biography – The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO|website=The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia|access-date=August 19, 2021}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – The [[proton beam]] is circulated for the first time in the [[Large Hadron Collider]], the [[List of accelerators in particle physics#Hadron colliders|world's largest and highest-energy]] [[particle accelerator]], located at [[CERN]], near [[Geneva]], under the Franco-Swiss border.<ref name="JdQh8" /><ref name="1tfei" />
* [[September 13]] –  [[Hurricane Ike]] makes landfall as a category 2 hurricane in [[Texas]], killing 113 and causing over $30 billion in damages.
* [[September 15]] – Stocks fall sharply Monday on a triptych of Wall Street woe: [[Lehman Brothers]]' bankruptcy filing, [[Merrill Lynch]]'s acquisition by [[Bank of America]], and [[American International Group|AIG]]'s unprecedented request for short-term financing from the [[Federal Reserve]].<ref name="VxePx" />
* [[September 20]] – A [[Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing|suicide truck bomb explosion]] destroys the [[Marriott International|Marriott Hotel]] in [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]], killing at least 54 and injuring 266.<ref name="mk4OZ" /><ref name="XWUWx" /><ref name="3fIg2" /> 
* [[September 23]] – [[HTC Dream]], the first smartphone powered by [[Android (operating system)|Android]], was launched.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cheng |first=Jacqui |date=2008-09-23 |title=T-Mobile, Google finally unveil the first Android phone |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/09/t-mobile-google-finally-unveil-the-first-android-phone/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sholtz |first=Matthew |date=2024-09-23 |title=This day in tech: The HTC Dream was revealed as the first Android phone |url=https://www.androidpolice.com/thread/this-day-in-tech-htc-dream-revealed-to-the-masses/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=Android Police |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] – [[SpaceX]] [[Falcon 1]] becomes the world's first privately developed [[Launch vehicle|space launch vehicle]] to successfully [[Falcon 1 Flight 4|make orbit]].<ref name="bUbIg" /><ref name="mJgTp" />