1500s / 16th century history on the 8th of August
1503 : King James IV of Scotland married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1600s / 17th century history on the 8th of August
1605 : The city of OULU, in Finland, was founded by Charles IX of Sweden. City of Oulu official website Ouka.fi | VisitOulu.fi
1700s / 18th century history on the 8th of August
1709 : Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrated the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
1786 : Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border was climbed for the first time, by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1794 : Joseph Whidbey led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1800s / 19th century history on the 8th of August
1876 : Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
1885 : The funeral of Ulysses S. Grant was attended by over 1.5 million people, in New York City. He was a military officer, and the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
1900s / 20th century history on the 8th of August
1908 : Wilbur Wright made his 1st flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It was the Wright Brothers’ 1st public flight.
1909 : Mary MacKillop (RSJ) the Australian nun and saint died aged 67 (born in Melbourne in 1842). She founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, in South Australia.
1927 : The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opened.
1929 : Graf Zeppelin, the German airship, began a round-the-world flight.
1937 : Dustin Hoffman the American actor and filmmaker was born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1946 : First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s 1st mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the 1st bomber with intercontinental range.
1959 : Albert Namatjira the Australian painter died aged 57 (born in. 1902).
1961 : The Edge, the British-Irish musician, was born David Evans, in Barking, Essex, England. He is best known as the lead guitarist of U2. Official website : U2.com
1963 : Great Train Robbery in England. A gang of 15 train robbers stole £2.6 million in bank notes.
1965 : Kate Langbroek, the Australian talk show host, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
1967 : The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1969 : Photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo at a zebra crossing in London, that became the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
1973 : Kim Dae-jung, the South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, was kidnapped.
1974 : President Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the office of the President of the United States in a nationwide television address, to be effective at noon the following day.
1981 : Vanessa Amorosi, the Australian singer-songwriter was born in Melbourne, Australia. Official website : VanessaAmorosi.com
1981 : Roger Federer the Swiss tennis player, was born in Basel, Switzerland.
1989 : Space Shuttle Columbia took off on a secret 5 day military mission, the STS-28 Mission.
1991 : The Warsaw radio mast, once the tallest construction ever built, collapsed.
1998 : Shawn Mendes, the Canadian singer-songwriter, was born in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Official website : ShawnMendesOfficial.com
2000s / 21st century history on the 8th of August
2000 : Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor, and 30 years after it was discovered by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2007 : An EF2 tornado touched down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, known as the most powerful tornado in New York, and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2010 : A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, killed over 1,400 people, during the 2010 China floods.
2017 : Glen Campbell, the American singer-songwriter died aged 81 (born in 1936). Official website : GlenCampbell.com
2022 : FBi search of Mar-a-Lago, the the residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. The FBi agents recovered missing classified government documents, including some confidential and top secret documents.
2022 : Dame OLiViA NEWTON-JOHN (AC, DBE) the British- Australian singer-songwriter and actress, died from breast cancer, aged 73 (born 26 September 1948). Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre
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