On this day in History - Aug 8

• 0869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia dies (b. 0825)
• 0936 - German king Otto I the Great, crowned
• 0939 - Forças do rei Ramiro II de Leão vencem tropas mouras em Simancas, perto de Valladolid.
• 1276 - Fim do pontificado do Papa Adriano V
• 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is coronated in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife.
• 1583 - Fernão Mendes Pinto dies. Portuguese navigator and writer.
• 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the North West Passage.
• 1585 - Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV)
• 1588 - Battle of Gravelines ends - Defeated by the English during an invasion attempt, the surviving parts of the Spanish Armada begin to sail home. Only 67 of the original 130 ships will later reach Spain and most of these will be in poor condition.
• 1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1646 - Godfrey Kneller was born (d. 1723). German-born painter.
• 1647 - Battle of Dangan Hill - Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.
• 1673 - John Ker was born (d. 1726). Scottish spy
• 1602 - Gilles de Roberval was born (d. 1675). French mathematician.
• 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer dies (b. 1622)
• 1693 - Laurent Belissen was born (d. 1762). French composer.
• 1694 - Francis Hutcheson was born (d. 1746). Irish philosopher.
• 1709 -Primeira experiência bem sucedida com um Balão - Passarola (Aerostato), em Lisboa-Portugal, no ano de 1709, realizada pelo padre Bartolomeu de Gusmão .
• 1763 - Charles Bulfinch was born (d. 1844). American architect
• 1778 - Lisboa passa a ser governada por quatro vereadores vitalícios, derrogando-se o estabelecido em 1765, de ser governada por um ministro de nomeação régia. A medida vigorará até 1785.
• 1786 - Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
• 1814 - Esther Morris was born (d. 2 Apr 1902). Suffragist and the first U. S. woman judge.
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St. Helena
• 1819 - Charles A. Dana was born (d.17 Oct 1897). American journalist.
• 1827 - George Canning dies (b. 1770). British statesman and prime minister.
• 1832 - O príncipe Otão da Baviera é eleito rei da Grécia
• 1839 - General Nelson Miles was born (d. 1925). Indian fighter.
• 1844 - During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is created as the leading body of the Mormon Church.
• 1857 - Henry Fairfield Osborn was born (d. 6 Nov 1935). American paleontologist and museum administrator
• 1863 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (Davis will refuse the request upon receipt).
• 1864 - A Organização da Cruz Vermelha é fundada por sugestão de Henri Dunant, após a assinatura da Convenção de Genebra, para socorrer os feridos e vítimas da guerra.
• 1866 - Matthew Henson was born. Arctic explorer.
• 1875 - Nascimento de Arthur Bernardes (Arthur da Silva Bernardes), 14º Presidente do Brasil (15 Nov 1922 - 15 Nov 1926).
• 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 1879 - Emiliano Zapata was born (d. 19 Apr 1919). Mexican revolutionary.
• 1880 - Earle Page was born (d. 1961). Eleventh Prime Minister of Australia
• 1884 - Sara Teasdale was born
• 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan dies (b. 1808). American lawyer and soldier.
• 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born (d. 14 Dec 1953). American writer. Author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book "The Yearling",
• 1898 - Eugène Boudin dies (b. 1824). French painter.
• 1900 - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later .
• 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence was born (d. 1958). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1939
• 1902 - Paul Dirac was born (d. 1984). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1933
• 1902 - 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
• 1902 - Jacques-Joseph Tissot dies (b. 15 Oct 1836). French artist
• 1903 - 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
• 1905 - André Jolivet was born (d. 1974). French composer.
• 1907 - Benny Carter was born (d. 2003). American musician and arranger.
• 1908 - Arthur Goldberg was born (d. 19 Jan 1990). American statesman, Supreme Court justice
• 1910 - Sylvia Sidney was born (d. 1999). Actress
• 1910 -Francisco Brochado da Rocha was born. Prime Minister of Brazil, 1962
• 1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913.
• 1911 - William P. Frye dies. American politician
• 1912 - O governador Norton de Matos funda a cidade de Huambo, em Angola.
• 1915 - James "Jumbo" Elliott was born (d. 1981). Track coach.
• 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens - Canadian troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army."
• 1919 - Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
• 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis was born. Producer King Kong
• 1919 - Óscar Hurtado, was born. Cuban writer , considered the father of the cuban science ficcion escritor cubano ( el padre de la ciencia ficción cubana).
• 1920 - Leo Chiosso was born. Italian lyricist
• 1921 - Webb Pierce was born (d. 1991). Country singer.
• 1921 - Esther Williams was born. American actress and swimmer
• 1921 - William Asher was born. Film producer
• 1921 - John Herbert Chapman was born. British physicist
• 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami was born. Indian medical scientist
• 1922 - Rudi Gernreich was born (d. 21 Apr 1085). Austrian-born American fashion designer
• 1922 - Rory Calhoun was born (d. 1999). Actor.
• 1922 - Rudi Gernreich was born.
• 1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi was born (d. 1922). Spanish footballer.
• 1924 - Nasce em Lisboa Carmen Dolores, grande actriz portuguesa.
• 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic was born (d. 2003). President of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1927 - Johnny Temple was born (d. 1994). Baseball player.
• 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
• 1930 - Betty Boop premieres in the animated film "Dizzy Dishes".
• 1930 - Joan Mondale was born. Wife of U.S. vice-president Walter Mondale, 1977-81. She has taken a leadership role in the national crafts movement since the 1970s
• 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose was born. British physicist
• 1932 - Mel Tillis was born. Country singer
• 1933 - Adolf Loos dies (b. 1870). Austrian architect
• 1936 - Donald P. Bellisario was born. Television producer
• 1937 - Dustin Hoffman was born in Louisiana. Actor Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer
• 1938 - Connie Stevens was born. Singer and actress
• 1938 - The Mauthausen concentration camp opens.
• 1939 - Alexander Watson was born. American ambassador and diplomat
• 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
• 1940 - Johnny Dodds dies. (b. 1892). Jazz musician.
• 1942 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others cooperate and receive life imprisonment instead).
• 1942- Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India
• 1944 - Peter Weir was born. Australian film director
• 1944 - Uli Derickson was born. Czech-born American flight attendant
• 1944 - Brooke Bundy was born. American actress
• 1944 - Chaim Soutine dies (b. 1894). Russian painter.
• 1945 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria with more than 1 million troops. Japan surrenders on August 15
• 1945 - The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, and that nation becomes the third to join the new international organization.
• 1949 - Bhutan becomes independent
• 1949 - Keith Carradine was born. Actor
• 1951 - Mamoru Oshii was born. Japanese film director.
• 1951 - Martin Brest was born in Bronx, New York City. American director, producer, screenwriter
• 1952 - Jostein Gaarder was born. Norwegian author.
• 1952 - Robin Ophelia Quivers was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Talk show host (Howard Stern's)
• 1953 - Don Most was born. American actor
• 1954 - Nigel Mansell was born. Race car driver
• 1956 - Branscombe Richmond was born. Native American actor
• 1958 - Deborah Norville was born. Reporter and television host
• 1961 - The Edge was born. Guitarist (U2)
• 1962 - Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977. She and the two men she hired to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958 die in San Quentin's gas chamber.
• 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
• 1965 - Shirley Jackson dies (b. 1919). American author.
• 1966 - Chris Eubank was born. Boxer
• 1967 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
• 1968 -Patricia Arquette was born in New York City. Actress (Ed Wood, Pretty Smart )
• 1968 - Jurō Wada, a doctor at the Sapporo Medical School, successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
• 1970 - José Francisco Molina Giménez was born. Spanish football player (goal-keeper-Deportivo Coruña)
• 1971 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
• 1972 - Andrea Feldman dies. Actor
• 1973 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.
• 1973 - Scott Stapp was born. Singer (Creed)
• 1974 - Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).
• 1975 - Portugal: Tomada de posse do V Governo Provisório, liderado por Vasco Gonçalves.
• 1975 - Cannonball Adderley dies. American jazz saxophonist.
• 1976 - Liraz Mesilaty was born. Miss Universe-Israel 1996
• 1976 - J.C. Chasez was born. Singer (*NSYNC)
• 1976 - Drew Lachey was born. Singer
• 1978 - Odie makes his first appearance in the cartoon strip Garfield.
• 1978 - The United States launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.
• 1978 - Ruy Belo dies in Queluz (b. 1933). Portuguese poet and essayst
• 1980 - Sabine Klaschka was born. German tennis player
• 1980 - Pat Noonan was born. American striker
• 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi was born. Australian singer and songwriter
• 1981 - Roger Federer was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1983 - Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees
• 1985 - Milton Greene dies. Celebrity photographer
• 1985 - Louise Brooks dies. American silent film actress
• 1987 - Danilo Blanusa dies (b. 1903). Croatian mathematician
• 1988 - General Ne Win, ruler of Burma since 1962, suddenly resigns.
• 1989 - STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• 1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
• 1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
• 1991 - James Irwin dies. Astronaut
• 1996 - Nevill Francis Mott dies (b. 1905). , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter dies (b. 1915). Ukrainian pianist.
• 2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
• 2004 - Eva Kemlein dies. German photographer.
• 2004 - Fay Wray dies (b. 1907). American actress.
• 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes dies (b. 1922). American actress
• 2005 - John H. Johnson dies (b. 1918). African-American publisher; billionaire.2005 - Gene Mauch dies (b. 1925). American athlete and manager.
• 2005 - Monica Sjöö dies (b. 1938). Swedish artist
• 2005 - Ilse Werner dies (b. 1921). German actress
• Taiwan: Father's Day. (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).
• Sweden - Namesday of Queen Silvia, an Official Flag Day.
• Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least saints:St. Dominic de Guzman, priest, (1170-1221); St. Cyriacus; St. Largus; St. Smaragdus (and companions); St. Hormisdas