Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 8
August 8: Father's Day in Taiwan
- 1585 - John Davis entered Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.
- 1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph machine.
- 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin embarked on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
- 1938 - Holocaust: The Mauthausen concentration camp was opened.
- 1967 - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).