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08 August, 2000
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
08 August, 1991
Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built. John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released.
08 August, 1990
Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
08 August, 1989
Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
08 August, 1988
The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar. The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games
08 August, 1986
Altaf Hussains address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
08 August, 1980
The Buttevant railway accident in Ireland occurred.
08 August, 1976
Boston, by the rock band Boston is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
08 August, 1974
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
08 August, 1973
U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew goes on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland. Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
08 August, 1972
Richard Nixon accepts the nomination as candidate for the presidency.
08 August, 1968
Juro Wada successfully performs Japans first heart transplant.
08 August, 1967
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
08 August, 1966
The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States.
08 August, 1963
Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
08 August, 1962
Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
08 August, 1949
Bhutan becomes independent
08 August, 1947
Pakistans National Flag is approved.
08 August, 1946
First flight of the Convair B-36.
08 August, 1945
World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join.
08 August, 1942
World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed. Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a civil disobedience movement across India
08 August, 1938
The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
08 August, 1931
workers go on strike at the Hoover dam
08 August, 1929
The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
08 August, 1918
World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.
08 August, 1911
The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire. Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
08 August, 1908
Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. Its the Wright Brothers first public flight and the French public goes wild.
08 August, 1876
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
08 August, 1870
The Republic of Ploiesti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
08 August, 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 (which is refused upon receipt).
08 August, 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).
08 August, 1839
Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
08 August, 1810
Eminent Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib married Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moved to Delhi.
08 August, 1794
Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
08 August, 1793
The insurrection of Lyon occurred during the French Revolution.
08 August, 1786
Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
08 August, 1647
The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
08 August, 1605
The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
08 August, 1588
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armadas attempt to invade England.
08 August, 1585
John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
08 August, 1576
The cornerstone for Tycho Brahes Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
08 August, 1509
The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
08 August, 1220
Sweden was defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

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