8th
August, on this day
117 Hadrian
becomes Roman Emperor
1220 Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the
Battle of Lihula.
1509 The Emperor Krishnadeva
Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of
the Vijayanagara
Empire.
1576 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho
Brahe's Uraniborg
observatory
1588 Anglo-Spanish
War: Battle
of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish
Armada's attempt to invade England.
1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1647 The
Irish Confederate Wars and Wars
of the Three Kingdoms: Battle
of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu
de Gusmao (indoors)
1786 The highest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc, is climbed for the
first time by Michael-Babriel
Paccard and Jacques
Balmat
1793 The insurrection
of Lyon occurred during the French Revolution.
1794 Joseph
Whidbey and George
Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest
Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1814 Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena
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 Joseph Smith death
1861 William
Bateson, originator of term "genetics"
1863 Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General
Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President
Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1863 Tennessee's "military" Gov. Andrew
Johnson freed his personal slaves. During the early 20th century,
the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday.
1868 Quake destroys Arica, Chile
1870 The Republic
of Ploiesti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor
Carol
I of Romania.
1876 Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1900 Start of the first Davis
Cup international tennis tournament, named after Dwight Filley
Davis, at Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Cup is
won by the United States
1908 Wilbur
Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.
It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public
goes wild.
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.
1918 World War I: Start of the Battle
of Amiens - Allied troops advance against 20 German divisions
and take 16,000 prisoners within 2 hours
1918 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York
is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more
1919 Treaty
of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1929 1st airship flight around the Earth flying eastward begins
1929 German airship Graf
Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1931 Workers go on strike at the Hoover
dam
1934 Britain passes the Poor
Law Amendment Act - abandoning system of outdoor relief by which
parishes look after their poor and replacing it with the workhouse
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1938 The building of Mauthausen
concentration camp begins.
1940 "Aufbau
Ost" directive was signed by Wilhelm
Keitel.
1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1942 In America, six German saboteurs are executed in a prison in
the District of Columbia less than 3 months after they landed on Long
Island
1942 Quit
India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC,
which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
1945 President Harry S Truman signs UN
Charter
1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II and commenced the Manchurian
Strategic Offensive Operation.
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1946 India agrees to give Bhutan territory
1947 Pakistan's National
Flag is approved.
1949 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1956 Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
1958 In Britain, Columbia Records signs a 17 year old singer called
Cliff Richard
1963 In England, a gang of 15 men steal more than £2.6 million
in the Great
Train Robbery at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire - stopping and
robbing a Royal Mail train travelling between Glasgow and London
1963
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label
it obscene
1966 South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
1967 The Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1968 Race riot in Miami, Florida
1973 VP Spiro
T Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks
from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign
1973 Kim
Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South
Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 US President Richard Nixon finally resigns over the Watergate
Affair - the first President to resign from office in the face
of a threat of impeachment
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
1980 The Central
Hotel Fire, Bundoran occurred in Ireland.
1983 Brig Gen Efrain
Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1984 Carl
Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in the Summer Olympics
1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1988 The "8888
Uprising" occurs in Burma.
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 Renovated NY's Central
Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 Sec of State Shultz
narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
1988 South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein announces that Iraq has annexed
Kuwait. US President Bush sends American troops to Saudi Arabia as
part of the build-up of a multinational force to force Iraqi troops
out of Kuwait
1991 Collapse of
Warsaw
radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built
1991 Billy
Preston charged with exhibiting porno 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 Shite
Muslims release British hostage John
McCarthy - 5 years and 3 months after being kidnapped in Beirut.
He had been held hostage since April 17, 1986 - a total of 1,943 days
1997 British newspapers romantically link Diana, Princess of Wales
with Dodi
Al Fayed - the son of Mohammed
Al Fayed, the owner of London store Harrods
2000 Confederate
submarine H.L.
Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 8th August :
1763 Charles Bulfinch
Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
1857 Henry Osborn Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
1865 Matthew A Henson famous African
1879 Emiliano Zapata Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
1884 Sara Teasdale US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
1887 Malcolm Keen Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama)
1896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Wash DC, writer (The Yearling)
19-- Anne Francine Phila, actress (Harper Valley PTA)
19-- Branscombe Richmond LA Cal, actor (Heart of the City, Hawaiian
Heat)
19-- Doran Clark New Orleans, actress (King's Cross, Emerald Point
NAS)
19-- Earl Boen Pueblo Colo, actor (Dennis-It's a Living)
19-- Matt Shakman actor (Graham-Just the 10 of Us)
19-- Rosetta LeNoire actor (Grandma Winslow-Family Matters)
19-- Veronica Redd-Forrest actress (Mamie-Young & Restless)
1900 Victor Young Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old
Calif)
1901 Dr Ernest O Lawrence Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939)
1902 Paul A.M. Dirac England, theoretical physicist (Nobel 1933)
1905 Andr‚ Jolivet Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque)
1907 Benny Carter NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
1908 Arthur J Goldberg Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
1910 Francisco Brochado Da Rocha PM of Brazil (1962)
1910 Sylvia Sidney Bronx NY, actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice,
Demon)
1913 Axel Stordahl Staten Island NY, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show)
1913 Robert Stafford (Sen-R-Vt)
1918 Rory Calhoun LA Calif, actor (Capitol, Motel Hell, Bill-Texan)
1919 Dino DeLaurentis producer (King Kong)
1922 Rudi Gernreich designed 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt
1923 Esther Williams Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when
Wet)
1926 Richard Anderson Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million
$ Man)
1926 Webb Pierce West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1927 Jim Weaver (D-rep-Ore)
1929 Josef Suk Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
1930 Andy Warhol artist/movie producer (Frankenstein, Bad)
1930 Joan Mondale wife of former VP Walter F Mondale
1930 Nita Talbot NYC NY, actress (Supertrain, Here We Go Again)
1932 Mel Tillis country singer/stutterer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)
1933 Joe Tex singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got)
1936 Don Bowden US, 1st American to run a sub 4 min mile
1936 Frank Howard baseball player (NL Rookie of the Year 1960)
1936 Keith Barron Mexborough England, actor (At the Earth's Core)
1937 Dustin Hoffman LA, actor (The Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer)
1938 Connie Stevens Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach)
1939 Phil Balsley Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the
Wall)
1947 Jose Cruz leftfielder (St Louis Cards, Houston Astros)
1947 Larry Wilcox SD Calif, actor (Lassie, CHiPs)
1948 Svetlana Y Savitskaya 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
1949 Keith Carradine San Mateo Calif, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
1952 Robin Quivers radio/TV personality (Howard Stern's sidekick)
1953 "Sweet" Lou Dunbar basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1953 Donny Most Bkln NY, actor (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)
1954 Nigel Mansell formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990)
1956 Chris Foreman guitar (Madness-1 Step Beyond)
1956 David Grant rocker (Heaven Knows)
1958 Deborah Norville TV host (Today)
1958 Harry Crosby LA Calif, actor (Friday the 13th)
1959 Rikki Rockett rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1961 The Edge (Dave Evans) London, rocker (U2-I Will Follow)
1962 Suzee Pai Toledo Ohio, actress (Big Trouble in Little China)
1967 Lorraine Pearson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1988 Beatrice Princess of England
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Deaths which occurred on August 8th:
1960 Danton Walker columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61
1961 Charlie Gemora actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at 58
1976 John Roselli hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered
1984 Richard Deacon actor (Mel-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62
1985 Louise Brooks actress, dies of a heart attack at 78
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