Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 8
This is a list of selected August 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Abbey Road in 2007
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Father's Day in Taiwan | refimprove |
| 1509 – Krishnadevaraya was crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor. | date not verified in article |
| 1786 – Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, an act considered to be the birth of modern mountaineering. | refimprove section |
| 1870 – Liberal radicals in Ploiești, Romania, revolted against Romanian Domnitor Carol I, only to be arrested the next day. | no footnotes |
| 1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph machine, a printing device that was one of the forerunners to the photocopier. | refimprove |
| 1942 – Following a speech by Mohandas K. Gandhi, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India Resolution, calling for the immediate independence of India from the United Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – The prototype of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the first purpose-designed nuclear weapon delivery vehicle to be mass-produced, made its maiden flight. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – In one of the largest robberies in British history, a gang of 15 train robbers stole £2.6 million in bank notes at Bridego Railway Bridge, Buckinghamshire, England. | refimprove section, outdated |
| 1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union was formed when Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe, and others decided to split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. | lots of inline tags |
| 1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. | multiple issues |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |b|1896 | unreferenced section (works) |
Eligible
- 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Amid a succession dispute, the forces of Duke Zhuang of Lu, who was attempting to install a claimant to the Qi throne, were defeated at the Battle of Qianshi.
- 1576 – The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven.
- 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.
- 1914 – The Endurance departed Plymouth, England, on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- 1969 – At a zebra crossing (pictured) on Abbey Road in London, Iain Macmillan took the photograph that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
- 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest structure ever built at 646.38 m (2,120.7 ft), collapsed due to an error in exchanging the guys on the highest stock of the mast.
- 1956 – A mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals, at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium.
- 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London (pictured), photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
- 1988 – A series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots, which became known as the 8888 Uprising, began against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.
- 1988 – Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.
- 1991 – Hudson Volcano in Chile began to erupt, depositing volcanic ash over 150,000 square kilometres (58,000 sq mi).
- 1998 – The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, was raided by Taliban leading to the death of 10 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist.
- 2008 – A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derailed, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
- 2010 – A massive mudslide in Zhouqu County in the Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 1,471 people.
- Born/died: | Seo Hui |d|998|Emperor Horikawa |b|1079| Matteo Tafuri |b|1492| Jean Leon Gerome Ferris |b|1863| Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield |b|1874| Sophia Duleep Singh |b|1876| Earle Page |b|1880| Ernest Lawrence |b|1901| James Tissot |d|1902|Esther Williams |b|1921 | Margaret Urban Walker |b|1948| Robert Kaske |d|1989
Notes
- Ringo Starr appears on August 16, so Abbey Road should not appear in the same year
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
- 1264 – Reconquista: In the early stages of the Mudéjar revolt, Muslim rebels captured the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera in present-day Spain, holding it for about two months.
- 1919 – The Third Anglo-Afghan War ended with the United Kingdom signing a treaty to recognise the independence of the Emirate of Afghanistan.
- 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin (pictured) departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
- 2009 – Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- 2014 – The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.
- Christoph Ludwig Agricola (d. 1724)
- Esther Hobart Morris (b. 1814)
- Ernest Lawrence (b. 1901)
- Elisabeth Abegg (d. 1974)