Unix Timestamp: 1230681600
Wednesday, December 31. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

A car bomb explodes in Bilbao, Spain, and is blamed on Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque nationalist and separatist organisation. //edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/31/spain.eta.bomb.blast/index.html?eref=rss_world (CNN)

An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.