Historical Events on August 8

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• 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 the chief monastery of Soto Sect

• 1509 Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India
• 1549 Henry II of France declares war on England and orders the siege of Boulogne
• 1567 Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels, Belgium
• 1570 Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for Huguenots

• 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.

• 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 unanimously chooses the dollar as the money unit for the United States
• 1786 Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc

• 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 Belgians
• 1839 Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
• 1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony

• 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

• 1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
• 1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
• 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 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 World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines
• 1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan's independence
• 1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
• 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 (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.

• 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
• 1936 A Finnish quinella in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Berlin Olympics; Volmari Iso-Hollo beats team mate Kaarlo Tuominen in world record time (9:03.8)
• 1936 American Glenn Morris' decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; team mates Bob Clark & Jack Parker complete US sweep in the gruelling event at the Berlin Olympics
• 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
• 1938 6th Venice Film Festival opens

• 1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England

• 1941 20 divisions of Soviet 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 Washington, D.C.
• 1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379
• 1942 Soviet 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 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

• 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 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 performances
• 1964 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
• 1964 Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
• 1966 South African 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

• 1970 NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
• 1971 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 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

• 1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day

• 1975 As a result of rainfall from Typhoon Nina, the Banqiao Dam in China fails, causing the collapse of almost 6 million buildings and 229,000 deaths
• 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

• 1980 LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
• 1981 At a summit South African Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws

• 1982 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
• 1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)

• 1984 "Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
• 1984 Carl Lewis wins 3rd gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200m
• 1984 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
• 1984 Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of a Muslim nation, and the first of her country in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1984 Future 5-time America's Cup winner Russell Coutts of New Zealand wins the Finn Class sailing gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
• 1985 Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993


• 1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
• 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 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 Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
• 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 Ceasefire 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 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province

• 1991 Billy Preston charged with exhibiting pornography to a minor

• 1991 Actor Gary Oldman is 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

• 1992 Bulgarian canoeist Nikolay Bukhalov completes the C-1 500 / 1,000 double winning the latter at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1992 Germany goes through the hockey competition undefeated to win gold with a 2-1 win over Australia in the men's final at the Barcelona Olympics
• 1992 Spanish centre forward Kiko scores twice as the home team takes the football Olympic gold medal with a 3-2 win over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona
• 1992 Fermín Cacho wins Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes out the 1,500m at the Barcelona Games
• 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.

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