A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 8 throughout history.
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70 Roman army under General Titus completes the siege of Jerusalem by destroying what remained after four months of occupation and plundering
Battle of Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dmitry defeats the Mongols, beginning the decline of the Tatars
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.
St. Augustine or Saint Augustine is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States.
The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived. By 1100 A.D. two main cultures had become dominant as the Iroquoian and Algonquian developed.
Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins during World War II; battle lasts over 28 months as Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost
Black September hijackings begin as three airliners are hijacked and destroyed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch; her eldest son inherits the throne as King Charles III [1]
Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films the first boxing match in West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
Nationwide release of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees." Three are chosen, with British actor-singer Davy Jones already cast
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American daytime talk show that was hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her eighth studio album, Fever (2001).
Dagoberto Campaneris Blanco, nicknamed "Bert" or "Campy", is a Cuban American former professional baseball shortstop, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for four American League (AL) teams,...
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761...
Business magnate John D. Rockefeller (25) weds abolitionist Laura Spelman (24)
Confederate General James Longstreet (76) weds Helen Dortch (34) at the governor's mansion in Atlanta, Georgia
90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (36) divorces glamour model Katie Price (31) due to unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage
Battle of Qatwan [Samarkand]: Seljuqs are defeated by a Kara-Khitan army, signaling the beginning of the end of the Great Seljuk Empire
Henry II, Duke of Austria, leaves Bavaria
Statute of Kalisz is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and granting battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters
Pope John XXI (Latin: Ioannes XXI, Italian: Giovanni XXI, Portuguese: João XXI; c. 1215 – 20 May 1277), born Pedro Julião (Latin: Petrus Iulianus), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...
Stefan Dušan declares himself King of Serbia
Emperor Yingzong of Ming (29 November 1427 – 23 February 1464), personal name Zhu Qizhen, was the sixth and eighth emperor of the Ming dynasty.
The Battle of Orsha (Polish: Bitwa pod Orszą, Lithuanian: Oršos mūšis), was fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of...
Earl of Hertford leads a retaliatory mission against Scotland
Maximilian II (31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576.
China and Russia sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk, checking Russian expansion but opening trade further between the two countries
Unigenitus (named for its Latin opening words Unigenitus Dei Filius, or "Only-begotten Son of God") is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713.
A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies.
Kittanning Expedition: 30-40 Lenape Indians are killed by Pennsylvania Provincial troops during the French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies.
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is founded in California, just east of modern downtown Los Aangeles [1]
William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne, until King Charles in 2022
The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of...
Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" sinks after being rammed in a storm on Lake Michigan, drowning about 300, the largest loss of life on the Great Lakes
Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas: 47 Texas volunteers repel federal forces
The New York Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club in New York state.
Netherlands and Britain sign "Koelietraktaat," an agreement allowing Indian contract workers from Calcutta to work on sugar plantations in Suriname
New York Gothams score 13 runs in an inning in a 16-6 win over Philadelphia Quakers at Recreation Park, Philadelphia; MLB record (18) set two days earlier
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system.
First appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" in Youth's Companion
The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, was a catastrophic tropical...
Pittsburgh Pirates strand National League record 18 men on base in 8-3 defeat to Cincinnati Reds at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh
Pope Pius X (Italian: Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 until his death in August 1914.
HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off Foula, Shetland, Scotland, in good weather and eventually sinks
Association of Negro Life and History is founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history.
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.
League of Nations Assembly votes unanimously to admit Germany
American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape
Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle, bound for New Jersey, catches fire; 133 die
Willy de Supervise swims a world record in the 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, known as the Great Revolt, and later the Great Palestinian Revolt or the Palestinian Revolution,...
Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated
First V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp, Belgium
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan as a colony under the name Chōsen (朝鮮), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late...
Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minor league record 456
The British de Havilland DH 108 fighter flies faster than the speed of sound
The Treaty of San Francisco, also called the Treaty of Peace with Japan, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allies on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of...
Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his...
The South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) forms to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.
Gwadar is a port city on the southwestern coast of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is on the shores of the Arabian Sea, opposite Oman, and had a population of over 90,000 in 2017 census.
The Asian Institute of Technology, formerly known as the SEATO Graduate School of Engineering, was founded in 1959.
Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
Chinese troops exceed the McMahon Line (Tibet-India boundary)
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida, the Bahamas, and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965.
Surveyor 5 launches and makes a soft landing on the Moon on September 10
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
Suleiman Maghrabi is appointed premier of Libya
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, is the national cultural center of the United States, serving as a "living memorial" to John F. Kennedy.
East German Annelie Ehrhardt sets a world record of 12.59 seconds to win the 100 m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics, beating Romanian Valeria Bufanu by 0.25 seconds
Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
Boston begins court-ordered busing of public schools
Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam
Interpol passes a resolution regarding video piracy
The Red Sox–Yankees rivalry is a Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses," created by John Sullivan and starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Lennard Pearce, premieres on BBC One
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
NASA launches RCA-6
Challenger moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-41G mission
Alayson Gibbons sets a 24-hour women's swim record of 42.05 miles in a 25-meter pool
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S.
An independence referendum was held in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia on 8 September 1991, which afterwards proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia.
Danny Tartabull has nine RBIs as the Yankees beat the Orioles 16-4
Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format is approved in the AL
Last US, British, and French troops leave West Berlin
Cleveland Indians clinch first AL Central Division title
The 48th Primetime Emmy Awards were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the second expansion team, after the 1961 Minnesota Vikings, to win their inaugural game
The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open
Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; it is the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America
Latvia joins its northern neighbor Estonia in recession as GDP falls 0.2% in the second quarter from the first quarter, when it fell 0.3%; property markets and construction have suffered in both Baltic states
Egypt's Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession, as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs duties
John Charles Galliano is a British fashion designer. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior.
A train hits a tractor in Romania, killing eight people
11 people are killed and 18 are injured in a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are four species, not just one as previously assumed
Roma is a 2018 historical drama film written, produced, and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also served as cinematographer and co-editor.
An estimated 1 million people attend a mass held by Pope Francis near Antananarivo, Madagascar
Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210 km/h (130 mph)
Moria refugee camp, Europe's largest migrant camp, burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter
Australian government passes its first climate change legislation in a decade, including cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030 [1]
6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Morocco, its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains near Marrakesh, killing around 3,000 people and causing catastrophic damage affecting over 6 million people [1]
Fifty-nine people die in a crash between an oil tanker and a lorry carrying passengers in Niger State, Nigeria [1]
Erin Patterson (50) is sentenced to life in prison for the mushroom murder of three of her in-laws by Australian court [1]
Bernie Sanders, American politician and activist, known for american politician and activist, was born on 1942-09-08.
Martin Freeman, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1972-09-08. Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor.
Antonín Dvořák, Czech musician, known for czech composer, was born on 1841-09-08. Antonín Leopold Dvořák (d (ə-)VOR-zha (h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904)…
Patsy Cline, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1932-09-08. Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer.
P!nk, American musician, known for american singer and songwriter, was born on 1980-09-08.
Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian athlete, known for canadian freestyle skier, was born on 1988-09-08.
70 Roman army under General Titus completes the siege of Jerusalem by destroying what remained after four months of occupation and plundering
Battle of Qatwan [Samarkand]: Seljuqs are defeated by a Kara-Khitan army, signaling the beginning of the end of the Great Seljuk Empire
Henry II, Duke of Austria, leaves Bavaria
Statute of Kalisz is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and granting battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters
Pope John XXI (Latin: Ioannes XXI, Italian: Giovanni XXI, Portuguese: João XXI; c. 1215 – 20 May 1277), born Pedro Julião (Latin: Petrus Iulianus), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...
Stefan Dušan declares himself King of Serbia
Battle of Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dmitry defeats the Mongols, beginning the decline of the Tatars
Emperor Yingzong of Ming (29 November 1427 – 23 February 1464), personal name Zhu Qizhen, was the sixth and eighth emperor of the Ming dynasty.
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.
The Battle of Orsha (Polish: Bitwa pod Orszą, Lithuanian: Oršos mūšis), was fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of...
Earl of Hertford leads a retaliatory mission against Scotland
Maximilian II (31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576.
St. Augustine or Saint Augustine is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States.
The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived. By 1100 A.D. two main cultures had become dominant as the Iroquoian and Algonquian developed.
China and Russia sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk, checking Russian expansion but opening trade further between the two countries
Unigenitus (named for its Latin opening words Unigenitus Dei Filius, or "Only-begotten Son of God") is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713.
A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies.
Kittanning Expedition: 30-40 Lenape Indians are killed by Pennsylvania Provincial troops during the French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies.
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761...
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is founded in California, just east of modern downtown Los Aangeles [1]
William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne, until King Charles in 2022
Antonín Dvořák, Czech musician, known for czech composer, was born on 1841-09-08. Antonín Leopold Dvořák (d (ə-)VOR-zha (h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904)…
The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican–American War.
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of...
Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" sinks after being rammed in a storm on Lake Michigan, drowning about 300, the largest loss of life on the Great Lakes
Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas: 47 Texas volunteers repel federal forces
Business magnate John D. Rockefeller (25) weds abolitionist Laura Spelman (24)
The New York Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club in New York state.
Netherlands and Britain sign "Koelietraktaat," an agreement allowing Indian contract workers from Calcutta to work on sugar plantations in Suriname
New York Gothams score 13 runs in an inning in a 16-6 win over Philadelphia Quakers at Recreation Park, Philadelphia; MLB record (18) set two days earlier
The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system.
First appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" in Youth's Companion
Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films the first boxing match in West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
Confederate General James Longstreet (76) weds Helen Dortch (34) at the governor's mansion in Atlanta, Georgia
The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, was a catastrophic tropical...
Pittsburgh Pirates strand National League record 18 men on base in 8-3 defeat to Cincinnati Reds at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh
Pope Pius X (Italian: Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 until his death in August 1914.
HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off Foula, Shetland, Scotland, in good weather and eventually sinks
Association of Negro Life and History is founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in history.
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.
League of Nations Assembly votes unanimously to admit Germany
American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape
Patsy Cline, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1932-09-08. Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer.
Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle, bound for New Jersey, catches fire; 133 die
Willy de Supervise swims a world record in the 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
Edward L. Doheny, American oil tycoon, known for american oil tycoon, died on 1935-09-08.
A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, known as the Great Revolt, and later the Great Palestinian Revolt or the Palestinian Revolution,...
Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins during World War II; battle lasts over 28 months as Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost
Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated
Bernie Sanders, American politician and activist, known for american politician and activist, was born on 1942-09-08.
First V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp, Belgium
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan as a colony under the name Chōsen (朝鮮), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late...
Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minor league record 456
The British de Havilland DH 108 fighter flies faster than the speed of sound
The Treaty of San Francisco, also called the Treaty of Peace with Japan, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allies on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of...
Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his...
The South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) forms to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.
Gwadar is a port city on the southwestern coast of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is on the shores of the Arabian Sea, opposite Oman, and had a population of over 90,000 in 2017 census.
The Asian Institute of Technology, formerly known as the SEATO Graduate School of Engineering, was founded in 1959.
Nationwide release of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
Chinese troops exceed the McMahon Line (Tibet-India boundary)
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees." Three are chosen, with British actor-singer Davy Jones already cast
Dagoberto Campaneris Blanco, nicknamed "Bert" or "Campy", is a Cuban American former professional baseball shortstop, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for four American League (AL) teams,...
Hurricane Betsy was an intense, deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that brought widespread damage to areas of Florida, the Bahamas, and the central United States Gulf Coast in September 1965.
Surveyor 5 launches and makes a soft landing on the Moon on September 10
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
Suleiman Maghrabi is appointed premier of Libya
Black September hijackings begin as three airliners are hijacked and destroyed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, is the national cultural center of the United States, serving as a "living memorial" to John F. Kennedy.
East German Annelie Ehrhardt sets a world record of 12.59 seconds to win the 100 m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics, beating Romanian Valeria Bufanu by 0.25 seconds
Martin Freeman, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1972-09-08. Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
Boston begins court-ordered busing of public schools
Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam
Interpol passes a resolution regarding video piracy
The Red Sox–Yankees rivalry is a Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
P!nk, American musician, known for american singer and songwriter, was born on 1980-09-08.
British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses," created by John Sullivan and starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Lennard Pearce, premieres on BBC One
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
NASA launches RCA-6
Challenger moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-41G mission
Alayson Gibbons sets a 24-hour women's swim record of 42.05 miles in a 25-meter pool
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American daytime talk show that was hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.
Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian athlete, known for canadian freestyle skier, was born on 1988-09-08.
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S.
An independence referendum was held in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia on 8 September 1991, which afterwards proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia.
Danny Tartabull has nine RBIs as the Yankees beat the Orioles 16-4
Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format is approved in the AL
Last US, British, and French troops leave West Berlin
Cleveland Indians clinch first AL Central Division title
The 48th Primetime Emmy Awards were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her eighth studio album, Fever (2001).
Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the second expansion team, after the 1961 Minnesota Vikings, to win their inaugural game
The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open
Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; it is the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America
Latvia joins its northern neighbor Estonia in recession as GDP falls 0.2% in the second quarter from the first quarter, when it fell 0.3%; property markets and construction have suffered in both Baltic states
90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (36) divorces glamour model Katie Price (31) due to unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage
Egypt's Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession, as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs duties
John Charles Galliano is a British fashion designer. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior.
A train hits a tractor in Romania, killing eight people
11 people are killed and 18 are injured in a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are four species, not just one as previously assumed
Roma is a 2018 historical drama film written, produced, and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also served as cinematographer and co-editor.
An estimated 1 million people attend a mass held by Pope Francis near Antananarivo, Madagascar
Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210 km/h (130 mph)
Moria refugee camp, Europe's largest migrant camp, burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter
Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch; her eldest son inherits the throne as King Charles III [1]
Australian government passes its first climate change legislation in a decade, including cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030 [1]
6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Morocco, its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains near Marrakesh, killing around 3,000 people and causing catastrophic damage affecting over 6 million people [1]
Fifty-nine people die in a crash between an oil tanker and a lorry carrying passengers in Niger State, Nigeria [1]
Erin Patterson (50) is sentenced to life in prison for the mushroom murder of three of her in-laws by Australian court [1]