August 8

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 8. From 1900 until now. August 8 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Roger Federer (1981), Martine Aubry (1950) and Dustin Hoffman (1937). Several movies were released around August 8 over the years, such as Elite Squad in 2007 directed by José Padilha and That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977 directed by Luis Buñuel.
But much more happened on August 8 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least ? saints: St. Dominic de Guzman, priest, (1170-1221).
Sweden - Namesday of Queen Silvia, an Official Flag Day.
Taiwan: Father's Day. (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).
St. Hormisdas
St. Smaragdus (and companions)
St. Largus
St. Cyriacus
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Events

2018 Academy Awards: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces new changes to the Oscars, including possibly a shorter ceremony, and a new category called "Most Popular Film". (Huffington Post)
2017 Battle of Marawi: The Pentagon is considering conducting airstrikes in Marawi, which if approved would later put U.S. troops on the ground to battle the ISIS-affiliated Maute group as well as related Islamist terror groups. A spokesperson later denied the claims as well as clarified that the Philippines has yet to make a request. (NBC News)
2016 2016 Ethiopian protests: More than fifty protesters are killed by Ethiopian security forces over the last few days. The government restricted internet and journalist access to the country. (Al Jazeera)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): An overnight attack on Camp Integrity in Kabul leaves one NATO service member killed, along with eight support staff and two Taliban insurgents. (Reuters via Yahoo News), (AFP)
2014 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict:: Hamas rejects the continuation of a 72-hour ceasefire and has shot over 60 rockets since 8:00 into southern Israel. Israel launches air strikes in response. (AP) (CNN)
2013 Balochistan conflict:: A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 28 people. (BBC)
2012 Armed men open fire at a checkpoint in the Egyptian city of Arish on the Sinai Peninsula. (Reuters)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising
2010 North Korea detains a South Korean fishing boat with four South Koreans and three Chinese on board. (BBC) (Straits Times) (Aljazeera)
2009 Typhoon Morakot makes landfall in Taiwan, and almost the entire southern region of Taiwan is flooded by record-breaking rainfall.
2008 US home mortgage funder Fannie Mae posts a second-quarter loss of US$2.3 billion, its fourth straight quarter loss, totaling US$9.44 billion over the past year.
2007 The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118.
2006 CBS News's Mike Wallace holds an interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. In the interview, Ahmadinejad said that the letter he sent to George W. Bush was meant to ampquotopen a window towards the lightampquot for Bush to ampquotsee that one can look on the world through a different perspective.ampquot He responded to his nation's nuclear program and possible weapons program saying that Iran was ampquotstudyingampquot the offer presented by the United States and the European
2005 Banco Central robbery at Fortaleza: In Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, an estimated 156 million reais was discovered to be stolen over the weekend in one of the world's largest bank robberies. (Agencia Brasil), (BBC)
2004 U.S. intelligence officials and non-government experts conclude that diplomatic efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Iran and North Korea have failed to slow their weapons development programs.
2003 Hezbollah, a militant Lebanese group backed by Syria and Iran, fires artillery toward Israeli border posts, drawing return fire. It was the first such exchange in eight months. AP story
2002 Accountancy scandals: WorldCom announced it had discovered in false accounting in addition to the discovered earlier.
2000 An unknown ship dumps oil off the South Florida coast, creating an oil slick covering 24km of beaches.
1999 ABC's Who Wants To Be a Millionaire premieres, hosted by Regis Philbin, and gives the contestants a chance at $1,000,000.
1997 Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox
1995 Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
1993 California State senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
1992 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
1991 Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
1989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
1988 9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1987 Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
1986 Record 3 grandslams in a game- (Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
1984 Rink closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1982 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1980 LBV Conference Center and Club Lake Villas open
1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with five atmospheric probes launched toward Venus.
1977 Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
1976 Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
1974 President Richard M Nixon announces he will resign his office 12PM August 9.
1973 VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are damned lies from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
1972 New York Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
1971 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1970 New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
1968 Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
1967 Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1964 110 in the Shade closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 performances
1963 Kingsmen release Louie, Louie, radio stations label it obscene
1961 Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat the Buffalo Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
1960 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini hits #1
1959 A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000.
1957 USSR offers Syria economic / military aid
1956 WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
1955 Fidel Castro forms July 26th Movement
1953 US and South Korea initial a mutual security pact.
1952 Syngman Ree re-elected President of South-Korea
1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1949 Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
1948 Hold It! opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances
1946 Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million
1945 England and Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
1944 Canada / Polish troops occupy Cramesnil / Secqueville / Cintheaux / St-Aignan
1943 Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
1942 Monty appointed Commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th / 12th Army surrender at Oeman
1940 31 German aircrafts shot down over England
1938 The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (USA) begins producing power.
1934 The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
1933 In Sioux County, Nebraska, USA a meteorite falls harmlessly to the ground.
1932 Congress creates Silver Star medal for gallantry.
1931 Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam.
1930 St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
1924 British-Russian trade agreement signed
1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
1918 Canada / Australian / British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
1914 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton Endurance
1913 Richard Corfields Camel Corps opens Mad Mullah in Burao Somalia
1911 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.
1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1903 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
1902 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
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