Notable Historical Events on August 8th
August 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
70 |
Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans |
936 |
German king Otto I the Great crowned |
1220 |
Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. |
1322 |
Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect |
1509 |
The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India. |
1549 |
France declares war on England |
1567 |
Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels, Belgium |
1570 |
Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots |
1579 |
Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory |
1585 |
Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendri of Navarra (Henri IV) |
1585 |
John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. |
1605 |
The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. |
1609 |
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope |
1619 |
Duke Maximilian I & Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen |
1647 |
The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. |
1673 |
Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC |
1700 |
Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty |
1709 |
1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors) |
1758 |
British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg |
1786 |
US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money |
1786 |
Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc |
1788 |
King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together |
1793 |
The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution. |
1794 |
Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. |
1796 |
Boston African Society establishes with 44 members |
1809 |
70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius, arrive in Palestine |
1814 |
Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium |
1816 |
Bavaria joins Holy Alliance |
1829 |
French government of De Polignac forms |
1831 |
Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army |
1839 |
Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio. |
1843 |
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony |
1844 |
Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following the death of Joseph Smith |
1853 |
Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan |
1854 |
Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges |
1860 |
Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC |
1863 |
American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century) |
1864 |
Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth |
1864 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama |
1868 |
Earthquake destroyes Arica, Chile |
1870 |
Magic (US) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup |
1870 |
The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. |
1876 |
Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m |
1876 |
Thomas Edison patents mimeograph |
1882 |
Snow falls on Lake Michigan |
1900 |
1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later |
1902 |
2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2) |
1903 |
3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1) |
1903 |
In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he hurls ball out of park & forfeits game |
1910 |
The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. |
1911 |
The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire. |
1911 |
Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913. |
1913 |
Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia |
1914 |
3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" |
1914 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
1914 |
Montenegro declares war on Germany |
1916 |
A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road |
1918 |
WWI: The Battle of Amiens begins - Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks, The end of trench warfare |
1918 |
6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more |
1919 |
Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan's independence |
1920 |
Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes |
1922 |
Italian general strike broken by fascist terror |
1922 |
Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies) |
1924 |
British-Russian trade agreement signed |
1925 |
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC |
1929 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
1929 |
Salem Oregon airport dedicated |
1930 |
St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
1931 |
Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 |
1937 |
Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power |
1938 |
Great Trek Centenary Celebrations commence; the Great Trek was a migration involving Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa |
1940 |
31 German aircraft shot down over England |
1940 |
The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. |
1941 |
20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
1942 |
"Monty" appointed commander of British 8th Army at Alamein |
1942 |
6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washngton, DC |
1942 |
British corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379 |
1942 |
Russian anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko |
1943 |
Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec |
1943 |
US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily |
1943 |
Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland |
1944 |
Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
1944 |
US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans |
1945 |
England & Australian Services draw 4th Victory Test |
1945 |
President Harry Truman signs the UN Charter |
1945 |
US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials |
1945 |
USSR declares war against Japan in WW II |
1945 |
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea |
1946 |
India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles |
1946 |
Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million |
1946 |
First flight of the Convair B-36. |
1947 |
Pakistan's National Flag is approved. |
1948 |
"Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances |
1949 |
Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy |
1950 |
Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23) |
1950 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
1952 |
Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea |
1953 |
Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb |
1953 |
US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact |
1955 |
Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement" |
1955 |
Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy |
1956 |
Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium |
1956 |
WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins |
1957 |
USSR offers Syria economic/military aid |
1960 |
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 |
1960 |
Ivory Coast declares independence |
1960 |
South Kasai secedes from the Congo. |
1960 |
Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped |
1961 |
Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario |
1961 |
Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million) |
1963 |
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie", radio stations label it obscene |
1963 |
LA Dodgers F Howard & B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1963 |
Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ |
1964 |
"110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs |
1964 |
Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam |
1964 |
Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert |
1965 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
1965 |
Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation |
1966 |
South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
1967 |
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
1968 |
Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos |
1968 |
Race riot in Miami, Florida |
1968 |
Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president |
1970 |
NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there) |
1971 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1971 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
1971 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
1972 |
NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium |
1973 |
US vice-president Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign. |
1974 |
US President Richard Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
1975 |
Hank Williams Jr. falls off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana |
1976 |
Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts |
1977 |
Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi |
1977 |
Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's) |
1978 |
Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus |
1979 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
1980 |
LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open |
1981 |
At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws |
1982 |
64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa |
1982 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1983 |
Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt deposed as president of Guatemela |
1983 |
Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned) |
1983 |
Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees |
1984 |
"Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances |
1984 |
Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer |
1984 |
Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends |
1985 |
Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993 |
1985 |
Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet |
1986 |
Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles) |
1986 |
Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcing the establishment of the MQM political movement. |
1987 |
Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game |
1987 |
Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait |
1987 |
Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217 |
1988 |
-11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed |
1988 |
9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
1988 |
Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
1988 |
Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced |
1988 |
Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
1988 |
Goose Gossage registers career save #300 |
1988 |
Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar |
1988 |
Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season |
1988 |
Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) |
1988 |
Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2 |
1988 |
Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years |
1988 |
Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
1988 |
US Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
1988 |
South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
1988 |
Temperature hits high of 88 deg F on 8/8/88 in NYC |
1988 |
Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1 |
1988 |
Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war |
1988 |
The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. |
1989 |
US space shuttle STS-28 launched |
1990 |
Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland) |
1990 |
Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher |
1990 |
Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province |
1990 |
Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp |
1991 |
Billy Preston charged with exhibiting pornography to a minor |
1991 |
Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge |
1991 |
Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving |
1991 |
Shi'ite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy |
1991 |
With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951) |
1991 |
The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. |
1992 |
Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR |
1993 |
Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt |
1993 |
Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed |
1995 |
Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning |
1997 |
Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox |
1997 |
The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan |
2000 |
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. |
2004 |
John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
2007 |
An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. |
2008 |
Georgian invasion into South Ossetia. Begin of five-day war between Georgia and Russia. |
2012 |
China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies |
2012 |
16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines |
2013 |
28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan |
2013 |
14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan |
2013 |
4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas |
2014 |
The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO |
2016 |
Russia Not Allowed to Compete in Paralympics |
2016 |
Olympics|Michael Phelps Powers US to Victory and Wins His 19th Gold Medal |
2016 |
Bomb targeting mourners at Pakistan hospital kills at least 30 |
2017 |
Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo |
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