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.
• 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan was born (d. 1107).
• 1220 - Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
• 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein dies. Austrian composer
• 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.
• 1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes was born (d. 1561). Humanist and encyclopedist.
• 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro dies (b. 1478). Italian physician.
• 1555 - Oronce Finé dies (b. 1494). French mathematician.
• 1576 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
• 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.
• 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello dies (b. 1531). Spanish painter.
• 1604 - Horio Tadauji dies (b. 1578). Japanese warlord.
• 1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1605 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore was born (d. 1675). Colonial Governor of Maryland
• 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas dies (b. 1579). Lithuanian lexicographer.
• 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.
• 1705 - David Hartley was born. English physician and philosopher credited with the first formulation of the psychological system known as associationism.
• 1709 -Primeira experiência bem sucedida com um Balão - Passarola (Aerostato), em Lisboa-Portugal, no ano de 1709, realizada pelo padre Bartolomeu de Gusmão .
• 1747 - Madeleine de Verchères dies (b. 1678). New France heroine.
• 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun dies (b. 1704). German composer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén was born (d. 1892). Swedish novelist.
• 1810 - Eminent Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib married Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moved to Delhi.
• 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). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg dies (b. 1743). Swedish naturalist.
• 1839 - Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
• 1839 - General Nelson Miles was born (d. 1925). Indian fighter.
• 1844 - The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church).
• 1857 - Henry Fairfield Osborn was born (d. 6 Nov 1935). American paleontologist and museum administrator
• 1857 - Cécile Chaminade was born (d. 1944). French pianist and composer.
• 1831 - William Bateson was born (d. 8 Feb 1926). British biologist who published the first English translation (1900) of Gregor Mendel's work on heredity which he confirmed with his own experiments, and further demonstrated that heredity was apparent in animals as well as plants.
• 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 (d. 1955). American Arctic explorer.
• 1870 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes was born (d. 1955). 14 th President of Brazil (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.
• 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte dies (b. 1797). German philosopher.
• 1880 - Earle Page was born (d. 1961). Eleventh Prime Minister of Australia
• 1881 - Albert Kesselring was born (d. 1960). German field marshal.
• 1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was born (d. 1954). German field marshal.
• 1881 - Fay-Cooper Cole was born. American anthropologist who became an authority on the peoples and cultures of the Malay Archipelago and who promoted modern archaeology.
• 1882 - Ladislas Starevich was born (d. 1965). Polish stop-motion animation filmmaker.
• 1884 - Sara Teasdale was born (d. 1933). American poet.
• 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan dies (b. 1808). American lawyer and soldier.
• 1888 - Hamilton de Araújo dies in Porto (b. 1868). Portuguese poet.
• 1891 - Adolf Busch was born (d. 1952). German violinist.
• 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi was born (d. 1922). Spanish footballer.
• 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born (d. 14 Dec 1953). American writer, who was the author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book "The Yearling".
• 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt dies (b. 1818). Swiss art historian.
• 1898 - Alexis Minotis was born (d. 1990). Greek actor.
• 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 for his invention of the cyclotron, the first device for the production of high energy particles.
• 1902 - 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
• 1902 - Paul Dirac was born (d. 1984). English physicist Nobel Prize laureate in 1933
• 1902 - Jacques-Joseph Tissot dies (b. 15 Oct 1836). French artist.
• 1902 - James Tissot dies (b. 1836). French artist.
• 1903 - 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1).
• 1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1905 - André Jolivet was born (d. 1974). French composer.
• 1907 - Benny Carter was born (d. 2003). American musician and arranger.
• 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.
• 1908 - Arthur Goldberg was born (d. 19 Jan 1990). American statesman, Supreme Court justice
• 1910 - Sylvia Sidney was born (d. 1999). American 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 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for tubeless vehicle tire.
• 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire was born (d. 2002). American actress.
• 1911 - William P. Frye dies (b. 1830). American politician
• 1912 - O governador Norton de Matos funda a cidade de Huambo, em Angola.
• 1915 - James "Jumbo" Elliott was born (d. 1981). American 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. Italian film producer (e.g. King Kong)
• 1919 - Óscar Hurtado was born. Cuban writer , considered the father of the cuban science ficcion
• 1920 - Leo Chiosso was born (d. 2006). Italian lyricist
• 1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon was born (d. 1997). American singer.
• 1920 - Carol Lambrino was born (d. 2006). Son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino.
• 1921 - Webb Pierce was born (d. 1991). American singer.
• 1921 - Esther Williams was born. American actress and swimmer
• 1921 - William Asher was born. American film producer
• 1921 - John Herbert Chapman was born (d. 1979). British physicist
• 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami was born (d. 2001). Indian medical scientist
• 1922 - Rudi Gernreich was born (d. 21 Apr 1085). Austrian-born American fashion designer
• 1922 - Rory Calhoun was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1922 - Rudi Gernreich was born (d. 1985). Austrian-born fashion designer.
• 1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi was born (d. 1922). Spanish footballer.
• 1924 - Carmen Dolores was born in Lisbon. Portuguese actress.
• 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic was born (d. 2003). President of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1926 - Richard Anderson was born. American actor
• 1927 - Johnny Temple was born (d. 1994). American baseball player.
• 1928 - Don Burrows was born. Australian musician
• 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).
• 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz was born (d. 2004). Soviet dissident.
• 1929 - Ronald Biggs was born. British criminal.
• 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 - Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam
• 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose was born. British physicist
• 1932 - Mel Tillis was born. American singer
• 1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada was born. Bolivian dictator
• 1933 - Joe Tex was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1933 - Adolf Loos dies (b. 1870). Austrian architect
• 1935 - Donald P. Bellisario was born. American television producer
• 1935 - John Laws was born. Australia radio personality
• 1936 - Keith Barron was born. English actor
• 1936 - Frank Howard was born. American baseball player
• 1937 - Dustin Hoffman was born in Louisiana. Actor Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer
• 1938 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
• 1938 - Connie Stevens was born. American singer and actress
• 1938 - Jacques Hétu was born. French Canadian composer
• 1939 - Alexander Watson was born. American ambassador and diplomat
• 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
• 1940 - Dennis Tito was born. First space tourist
• 1940 - Johnny Dodds dies. (b. 1892). American 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.
• 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben dies (b. 1881). German field marshal.
• 1944 - Michael Wittmann dies killed in action (b. 1914). German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder
• 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.
• 1946 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
• 1947 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
• 1947 - Ken Dryden was born. Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
• 1947 - José Cruz was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1947 - Larry Wilcox was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin dies (b. 1872). Russian general.
• 1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya was born. Russian cosmonaut, the second woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
• 1949 - Bhutan becomes independent.
• 1949 - Keith Carradine was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Ricardo Londoño was born. Colombian racing driver.
• 1951 - Randy Shilts was born (d. 1994). American journalist and author.
• 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 Quivers was born in Baltimore, Maryland. American radio personality
• 1953 - Don Most was born. American actor
• 1953 - Nigel Mansell was born. English one-time Formula One World Champion
• 1955 - Herbert Prohaska was born. Austrian footballer
• 1956 - Branscombe Richmond was born. American actor
• 1958 - Cecilia Roth was born. Argentine actress
• 1958 - Deborah Norville was born. American reporter and television host
• 1960 - Ulrich Maly was born. Mayor of Nuremberg
• 1961 - The Edge was born. Irish guitarist (U2)
• 1961 - Daniel House was born. Owner C/Z Records
• 1961 - Rikki Rockett was born. American drummer (Poison)
• 1961 - Bruce Matthews was born. American football player
• 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.
• 1962 - Mike Zanier was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
• 1963 - Jon Turteltaub was born. American director
• 1963 - Stephen Walkom was born. Canadian ice hockey official and executive
• 1964 - Anastasia Ashman was born. American writer
• 1965 - Shirley Jackson dies (b. 1919). American author.
• 1966 - The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States.
• 1966 - Chris Eubank was born. English boxer
• 1966 - John Hudek was born. American baseball player
• 1967 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
• 1967 - Marcelo Balboa was born. American soccer player
• 1967 - Lee Unkrich was born. American director and film editor
• 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
• 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.
• 1969 - Faye Wong was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
• 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer dies (b. 1896). German eugenicist and nazi physician.
• 1970 - José Francisco Molina Giménez was born. Spanish football player (goal-keeper-Deportivo Coruña)
• 1970 - Trev Alberts was born. American football player
• 1970 - Pascal Duquenne was born. Belgian actor
• 1971 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
• 1972 - Richard Nixon accepts the nomination as candidate for the presidency.
• 1972 - Axel Merckx was born. Belgian bicycle racer
• 1972 - Lüpüs Thünder was born. American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
• 1972 - Andrea Feldman dies (b. 1948). American actor
• 1973 - Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.
• 1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
• 1973 - Scott Stapp was born. American singer (Creed)
• 1973 - Senta Moses was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Dean Corll dies (b. 1930). American serial killer.
• 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg dies (b. 1898). Swedish author and historian.
• 1974 - Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).
• 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz was born. Ecuadoran footballer.
• 1974 - Scott D'Amore was born. Professional wrestler and manager.
• 1974 - Andy Priaulx was born. British racing driver.
• 1974 - Baldur von Schirach dies (b. 1907). Nazi youth leader.
• 1975 - Portugal: V Provisory Government lead by Vasco Gonçalves begin in functions.
• 1975 - Cannonball Adderley dies. American jazz saxophonist.
• 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley dies (b. 1928). American jazz saxophonist.
• 1976 - Boston, by the rock band Boston is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
• 1976 - Liraz Mesilaty was born. Miss Universe-Israel 1996
• 1976 - J.C. Chasez was born. American singer (*NSYNC)
• 1976 - Drew Lachey was born. American singer
• 1976 - Tawny Cypress was born. American actress
• 1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee was born. Korean baseball player
• 1977 - Kurt Bernard was born. Costa Rican footballer
• 1977 - Rocky Thompson was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 - Szilard Nemeth was born. Slovak footballer
• 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian dies (b. 1889). Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 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 - Louis Saha was born. French footballer
• 1978 - Alan Maybury was born. Irish footballer
• 1978 - Ruy Belo dies in Queluz (b. 1933). Portuguese poet and essayst
• 1979 - Richard Harwood was born. British cellist
• 1979 - Paris Latsis was born. Greek shipping heir
• 1979 - Nicholas Monsarrat dies (b. 1910). British novelist.
• 1980 - The Buttevant railway accident in Ireland occurred.
• 1980 - Sabine Klaschka was born. German tennis player.
• 1980 - Pat Noonan was born. American soccer player.
• 1980 - Michael Urie was born. American actor and director.
• 1980 - Paul Triquet dies (b. 1910). French Canadian army officer.
• 1981 - Roger Federer was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1981 - Meagan Good was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Kaori Iida was born. Japanese singer and actress.
• 1981 - Bradley McIntosh was born. British pop singer.
• 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi was born. Australian singer and songwriter.
• 1982 - Eric Brandon dies (b. 1920). British racing driver.
• 1983 - Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees.
• 1983 - Guy Burnet was born. British actor.
• 1985 - Brayan Ruiz was born. Costa Rican soccer player.
• 1985 - Milton Greene dies. Celebrity photographer.
• 1985 - Louise Brooks dies (b. 1906). American silent film actress.
• 1986 - Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
• 1986 - Peyton List was born. American actress
• 1987 - Katie Leung was born. Scottish actress
• 1987 - Danilo Blanusa dies (b. 1903). Croatian mathematician
• 1988 - General Ne Win, ruler of Burma since 1962, suddenly resigns.
• 1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar.
• 1988 - The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games
• 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York was born.
• 1988 - Alan Napier dies (b. 1903). English actor.
• 1988 - Ramón Valdés dies (b. 1923). Brazilian actor.
• 1988 - Félix Leclerc dies (b. 1914). Quebec singer and songwriter.
• 1989 - Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• 1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva was born. Bulgarian tennis player
• 1990 - Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
• 1991 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
• 1991 - John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released.
• 1991 - James Irwin dies (b. 1930). American astronaut
• 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei dies. Considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death
• 1992 - John Kordic dies (b. 1965). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1995 - Malin Reitan was born. Norwegian singer
• 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.
• 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael dies (b. 1934). Greek actor.
• 2005 - Ahmed Deedat dies (b. 1918). Islamic scholar.
• 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.
• 2006 - Francis Obikwelu, Portuguese athlete, wins the golden Medal in European Championships running 100 metres im 9,99 seconds, new record of the competition.
• 2007 - Xanana Gusmão (ex-President) sworns as Prime-Minister of Timor-Lorosae
• 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