September 8

From Academic Kids

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining.

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Events

1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia
1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century Belarusians and Poles defeat Russian army.
1522 - Captain Sebastian del Cano sails into port in Spain, completing the round-the-world voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan. With him is tourist Antonio Pigafetta, whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage.
1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College as the first college founded in the Americas.
1771 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera founds Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman is found.
1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.
1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS_Morro_Castle kills 135 people.
1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik is executed by the Nazis.
1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1966 - The Man Trap, the first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs, with James T. Kirk (William Shatner) at the helm.
1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1986 - General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 - A Boeing 737 operating USAir Flight 427 carrying 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.
1995 - Timon and Pumbaa launches on all major television networks
1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season.
1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
1999 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
2000 - The Republic of Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Albania.
2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

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Births

551 BC � Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d.479 BC)
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal
1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
1588 - Marin Mersenne, mathematician (d. 1648)
1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond�, French general (d. 1686)
1778 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1804 - Eduard M�rike, German poet (d. 1875)
1841 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1873 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete
1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet (d. 1967)
1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)
1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, American country music singer and composer (d. 1933)
1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director (d. 1994)
1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun, architect (d. 2001)
1922 - Sid Caesar, comedian
1922 - Lyndon LaRouche, political leader
1924 - Mimi Parent, surrealist painter (d. 2005)
1925 - Peter Sellers, actor (d. 1980)
1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam
1932 - Patsy Cline, country music singer (d. 1963)
1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
1938 - Sam Nunn, U.S. Senator from Georgia
1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, musician (the Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1947 - Ann Beattie, writer
1960 - Aimee Mann, musician
1964 - Michael Johns, business executive and White House speechwriter
1970 - Neko Case, musician
1970 - Latrell Sprewell, basketball player
1970 - Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker
1971 - Brooke Burke, model
1972 - Lisa Kennedy, television personality
1979 - Pink, singer
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor

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Deaths

701 - Pope Sergius I
780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
1780 - Enoch Poor, General in the American Continental Army (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader
1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq
1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech communist and journalist (executed)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress
1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer
1977 - Zero Mostel, actor
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress
1981 - Bill Shankly, football manager
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist
1981 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, film maker
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)

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Holidays

Mare de Deu de Meritxell - National day of Andorra
Bah�'� Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
Catholicism - Feast of the Birth of Mary

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