September 8

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 8. From 1900 until now. September 8 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Pink (singer) (1979), Bernie Sanders (1941) and Wiz Khalifa (1987). Several movies were released around September 8 over the years, such as Goodfellas in 1990 directed by Martin Scorsese and The Bad Sleep Well in 1960 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
But much more happened on September 8 over the years: find out below

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2018 Taliban insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the western province of Afghanistan of Herat killing 9 and injuring 6 the militants suffered 10 losses as well. (VOA)
2017 Pope Francis pastoral visits: Pope Francis, responding to FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londoño's open letter asking for forgiveness for the suffering the group had inflicted on the country during his talk in Villavicencio, urges Colombians skeptical of the peace deal to be open to reconciliation. (Reuters) (Salem Radio Network)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Taliban militants storm the city of Tarinkot, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's Urozgan Province, with fighting reported on multiple fronts throughout the city. Local officials flee to the nearby Tarinkot Airport for shelter. (The Los Angeles Times)
2015 Turkey–PKK conflict: Turkey bombs PKK sites in northern Iraq after a bombing yesterday in Hakkâri Province that killed at least 16 soldiers. (BBC)A PKK bombing attack on a minibus in the eastern Iğdır Province near the Armenian border kills 14 Turkish police officers. (Reuters)
2014 Taliban insurgency: A suicide bomb attack kills the police chief of a district in southern Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. (Tolo News)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The Islamist al-Nusra Front captures the historic Christian town of Ma'loula from the Syrian Army; Russia calls for protection of the town. (CNN) (Interfax)
2012 Bahraini uprising (2011–present):
2011 North Caucasus insurgency/Ingushetia civil war:
2010 Mexican marines arrest seven gunmen suspected in participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. (AP via Fox News)
2009 A shipwreck in Sierra Leone leaves ampquotscoresampquot dead. (''The Sydney Morning Herald'')
2008 The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins the 2008 legislative election. (Reuters via ''The New York Times'')
2007 Ang Lee's spy thriller ''Lust, Caution'' wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (Reuters)
2006 Ralph ampquotBuckyampquot Phillips, the most recent addition to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, surrenders to Pennsylvania State Police. He is wanted for shooting three New York State troopers, one of whom died, after he escaped from jail. (''The Buffalo News'')
2005 Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2004 In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970s appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
2003 ''Occupation of Iraq'': Declaring Iraq to be the ampquotcentral frontampquot in the war against terrorism, President Bush asks Congress for to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq as well as Afghanistan.
2002 2002 US Open: Pete Sampras defeats Andre Agassi in four sets to win his record 14th major.
1999 First of a series of Russian apartment bombings. Subsequent bombings occurred on September 1 and September 16, while a bombing on September 22 failed.
1996 7 Guitars closes at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
1995 Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
1994 Philadelphia, Here I Come opens at Criterion NYC for 52 performances
1993 Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78)
1992 Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
1991 111th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60)
1990 104th US Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76)
1989 George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
1988 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1987 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1986 Westinghouse sells Muzak
1985 105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64)
1984 98th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64)
1983 NASA launches RCA-6.
1982 Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
1980 Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
1979 Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
1978 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1977 Jimmy McCullough quits Wings
1975 Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
1974 88th US Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75)
1973 87th US Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62)
1972 Chicago Cubs' Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year.
1971 In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1970 Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
1969 89th US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62)
1968 Funny Girl with Barbra Striesand premieres
1967 Surveyor 5 is launched; makes soft landing on Moon September 10.
1966 That Girl starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
1963 77th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64)
1962 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1960 German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
1959 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1957 77th US Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64)
1955 Disneyland welcomes its one millionth visitor.
1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1953 Carnival in Flanders opens at New Century Theater New York for 6 performances
1952 CBC Toronto debuts.
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex
1950 The Defense Production Act is enacted into law in the U.S., shaping American military contracting for the next 60 years.
1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
1947 British government sails Exodus with fugitives from Nazis
1946 60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63)
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1943 Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WWII
1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1939 FDR declares limited national emergency due to war in Europe
1937 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
1936 Princess Juliana and German Prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
1935 Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
1934 54th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86)
1931 In Hagerstown, Maryland, USA a meteorite crashes through a roof.
1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1926 League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
1923 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
1921 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1920 US Air Mail service begins (New York City to San Francisco).
1915 WWI: A Zeppelin raid destroys No.61 Farringdon Road, London. It Is rebuilt in 1917 and called The Zeppelin Building.
1914 British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
1907 Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1905 Pittsburgh Pirates strand National League record 18 men on base and lose to Cincinnati Reds 8-3.
1900 Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
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