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On this day - August 8

Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the ...

870 — Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother ...

1220 — Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

1264 — Mudéjar revolt: Muslim rebel forces took the Alcázar of Jerez ...

1503 — King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of ...

1509 — Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at ...

1576 — The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory ...

1585 — John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest ...

1588 — Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ...

1647 — The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: ...

1648 — Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as ...

1709 — Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air ...

1786 — Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the ...

1794 — Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest ...

1831 — Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in ...

1844 — The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is ...

1863 — Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal ...

1863 — American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of ...

1870 — The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising ...

1876 — Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

1897 — Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinates Spanish ...

1903 — Black Saturday occurs, killing 12 in a stadium collapse in ...

1908 — Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers' first public ...

1918 — World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost ...

1919 — The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes ...

1929 — The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world ...

1940 — The "Aufbau Ost" directive for the mobilization of ...

1942 — Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British ...

1945 — World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.

1945 — The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, ...

1946 — First flight of the nuclear capable Convair B-36, heaviest ...

1956 — Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium. 262 coal miners, ...

1963 — The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling ...

1963 — Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers ...

1967 — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded ...

1969 — At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan ...

1973 — Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of ...

1974 — President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, ...

1988 — The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's ...

1988 — The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). ...

1989 — Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia ...

1990 — Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This ...

1991 — The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever ...

1993 — The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum ...

1998 — Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by ...

2000 — Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface ...

2001 — Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of ...

2004 — A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps ...

2007 — Space Shuttle program: STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on ...

2007 — An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond ...

2008 — The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, ...

2008 — A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to ...

2009 — A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil and Piper PA-32R collide over the ...

2010 — China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills ...

2013 — A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta ...

2015 — Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.

2016 — Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan ...

2019 — An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in ...

2022 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search ...

2023 — Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned ...

2024 — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to ...