SomeFacts | September 8

On this day - September 8

70 — After the capture of Herod's Palace the previous day, a ...

617 — Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening ...

1100 — Election of Antipope Theodoric.

1198 — Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of ...

1253 — Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, who was ...

1264 — The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal ...

1276 — Pope John XXI is elected Pope.

1331 — Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.

1334 — The Battle of Adramyttion begins in which a Christian naval ...

1380 — Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of ...

1504 — Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria ...

1514 — Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, ...

1522 — Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, ...

1565 — St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and ...

1655 — Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the ...

1727 — A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in ...

1755 — French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

1756 — French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.

1760 — French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the ...

1761 — Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess ...

1775 — The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.

1781 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in ...

1793 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.

1796 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces ...

1808 — The Treaty of Paris is signed ending the French military ...

1810 — The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees ...

1813 — At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese ...

1819 — 1819 Balloon riot occurred at Vauxhall Garden in Philadelphia, ...

1831 — November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the ...

1831 — William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and ...

1855 — Crimean War: The French assault the tower of Malakoff, leading ...

1860 — The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the ...

1862 — Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.

1863 — American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a ...

1883 — The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed ...

1888 — In England, the first six Football League matches are played.

1888 — In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder ...

1888 — The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with ...

1888 — Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.

1892 — The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

1898 — Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the ...

1900 — Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, ...

1905 — The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a ...

1914 — World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British ...

1916 — In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as ...

1921 — Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City ...

1923 — Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off ...

1925 — Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign ...

1926 — Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

1933 — Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.

1934 — Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS ...

1935 — US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the ...

1941 — World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.

1943 — World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by ...

1944 — World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.

1945 — The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive ...

1946 — A referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.

1948 — The flag of North Korea is adopted with the passing of the ...

1952 — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first ...

1954 — The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

1960 — In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

1962 — Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and ...

1966 — The landmark American science fiction television series Star ...

1970 — Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff ...

1971 — In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

1973 — World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King ...

1974 — Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon ...

1975 — Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard ...

1978 — Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in ...

1986 — Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World ...

1988 — Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. ...

1989 — Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 ...

1994 — USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International ...

2000 — NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106 to resupply ...

2004 — NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its ...

2005 — Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster ...

2016 — NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return ...

2017 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce ...

2022 — Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral ...

2023 — The 2023 Rugby World Cup, the tenth men's Rugby World Cup ...

2023 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing nearly ...