SomeFacts | May 8

On this day - May 8

Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ...

413 — Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the ...

589 — Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry ...

1360 — Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England ...

1373 — Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, ...

1429 — Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of ...

1450 — Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.

1516 — A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered ...

1541 — Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, ...

1608 — A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, ...

1639 — William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island.

1721 — In the Papal States, Cardinal Michelangelo dei Conti is ...

1788 — King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of ...

1794 — Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist ...

1821 — Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the ...

1842 — A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 ...

1846 — Mexican–American War: American forces led by Zachary Taylor ...

1877 — At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first ...

1886 — Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage ...

1898 — The first games of the Italian football league system are ...

1899 — The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.

1902 — In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of ...

1919 — Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence ...

1921 — The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.

1924 — The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating ...

1927 — Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight ...

1933 — Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and ...

1941 — World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on ...

1942 — World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on ...

1942 — World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with ...

1942 — World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation ...

1945 — The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and ...

1945 — Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army ...

1945 — End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national ...

1945 — World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at ...

1946 — Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the ...

1950 — The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, ...

1957 — South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit ...

1963 — South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President ...

1967 — The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao ...

1970 — The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It ...

1972 — Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order ...

1973 — A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American ...

1976 — The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster ...

1978 — The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, ...

1980 — The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of ...

1984 — The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the ...

1984 — The Soviet Union announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics ...

1984 — Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and ...

1987 — The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

1988 — A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office ...

1997 — China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into ...

2019 — British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the ...

2021 — A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital ...

2025 — The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis ...