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70CEAug 8Tower of Antonia was destroyed by the Romans.
117Aug 8Marcus Ulpius Trajanus (Trajan), emperor of Rome (98-117), died.
869Aug 8Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), died.
1306Aug 8King Wenceslas of Poland was murdered.
1567Aug 8Duke of Alba’s army entered Brussels, Belgium.
1571Aug 8John Ward, English composer, was born in Canterbury.
1636Aug 8The invading armies of Spain, Austria and Bavaria were stopped at the village of St.-Jean-de-Losne, only 50 miles from France.
1648Aug 8Ibrahim, the sultan of Istanbul, was thrown into prison, then assassinated.
1763Aug 8Charles Bulfinch, 1st US professional architect (Mass State House), was born in Boston, Mass.
1786Aug 8The US Congress adopted the silver dollar and decimal system of money.
1788Aug 8Louis FAD Duke de Richelieu (92), French marshal, died.
1815Aug 8Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, to spend the remainder of his days in exile.
1854Aug 8Smith and Wesson patented metal bullet cartridges.
1860Aug 8Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrived in NYC.
1862Aug 8Minnesota’s 5th Infantry fought the Sioux Indians in Redwood, Minn., and 24 soldiers were killed.
1863Aug 8Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused General Robert E. Lee’s resignation.
1864Aug 8Union troops and fleet occupied Fort Gaines, Alabama.
1876Aug 8Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
1879Aug 8Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary who occupied Mexico City three times, was born in Anenecuilco, Morelos state, Mexico.
1881Aug 8Paul L.E. von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front), was born.
1890Aug 8Daughters of American Revolution (DAR) organized. [see Oct 11]
1896Aug 8Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (d.1953), author of “The Yearling,” was born.
1897Aug 8Anarchist Miguel Angiolillo assassinated Spanish PM Antonio Canovas del Castillo at Santa Agueda, Spain. Práxides Mateo Sagasta became prime minister of Spain.
1899Aug 8The first household refrigerating machine was patented.
1901Aug 8Ernest Orlando Lawrence (d.1958), winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for physics, was born.
1902Aug 8Jean Y.Y. Tissot, French painter, illustrator, died.
1907Aug 8Benny Carter, jazz musician, composer and bandleader, was born in New York.
1919Aug 8Dino De Laurentiis, producer (King Kong), was born in Torre Annunziata, Italy.
1922Aug 8An Italian general strike was broken by fascist terror.
1925Aug 8The first national congress of the Ku Klux Klan opened. 200,000 members marched in Washington, DC.
1929Aug 8Josef Suk, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977), was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1937Aug 8Dustin Hoffman, American actor, was born.
1940Aug 8The German Luftwaffe attacked Great Britain for the first time, beginning the Battle of Britain.
1942Aug 8U.S. Marines captured the Japanese airstrip on Guadalcanal.
1944Aug 8U.S. forces completed the capture of the Marianas Islands.
1945Aug 8President Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
1950Aug 8U.S. troops repelled the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days.
1953Aug 8The United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact.
1955Aug 8Fidel Castro formed his “July 26th Movement.”
1960Aug 8The pop song “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini”, sung by Brian Hyland (16), hit #1. The song was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss.
1965Aug 8In San Francisco race car driver Bart Martin (26) was killed at the Candlestick Park Sports Car Races. A two-mile track had been laid out around Candlestick Park’s huge parking area.
1966Aug 8South African Broadcasting banned the Beatles for Lennon’s anti-Jesus remark.
1972Aug 8A special meeting of the Democratic National Committee chose R. Sargent Shriver, the former director of the Peace Corps, as McGovern”˜s running mate. The Democrat ticket was swamped in the general election by incumbent President Richard Nixon in the November 7 election.
1974Aug 8Baldur von Schirach (b.1907), Nazi youth leader, died.
1975Aug 8Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (b.1928), sax player, died of a stroke.
1988Aug 8A renovated NYC Central Park Zoo reopened after 4 years.
1989Aug 8The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a secret, five-day military mission to deploy a new Pentagon spy satellite.
1990Aug 8Pete Rose began a 5-month prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp.
1991Aug 8James B. Irwin (b.1930), Col USAF, astronaut (Apollo 15), died. He was the 8th person to walk on the moon.
1992Aug 8The U.S. basketball “Dream Team” clinched the gold at the Barcelona Summer Olympics, defeating Croatia 117-85.
1994Aug 8Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once warring countries.
1995Aug 8President Clinton, during a visit to Baltimore, ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to report the pollution they cause.
1996Aug 8President Clinton belittled Bob Dole’s tax plan, vowing to oppose tax cuts that he said the country couldn’t afford. Republican sources, meanwhile, said Dole was seriously considering Jack Kemp to be his running mate.
1997Aug 8US Sec. of State Madeleine Albright announced that the bulk of US aid to Cambodia would be suspended.
1998Aug 8Pres. Clinton in weekly radio address vowed the bombers of 2 US embassies in Africa would be brought to justice, “no matter how long it takes or where it takes us.”
1999Aug 8In Sierra Leone rebels freed at least 19 of 35 captives taken on Aug 5.
2000Aug 8Vice President Al Gore formally introduced and celebrated his Jewish running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman, during an appearance in Gore’s home state of Tennessee.
2001Aug 8US Federal authorities announced the arrests of 100 people nationwide in an Internet child pornography operation, Landslide Productions Inc., based in Fort Worth, Tx.
2002Aug 8Bankrupt telecommunications firm WorldCom said it had uncovered another $3.3 billion in bogus accounting, adding to the $3.85 billion fraud it revealed in June.
2003Aug 8George Soros pledged $10 million to a political action committee called America Coming Together to defeat George Bush in 2004.
2004Aug 8The US military said 2 American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter died when a bomb hit their Humvee.
2005Aug 8Crude-oil prices rallied to a new high above $63 a barrel.
2006Aug 8Five Yemeni army officers were killed when their military helicopter crashed during a heavy rainstorm.
2007Aug 8Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinian militants near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip in two separate incidents.
2008Aug 8Researchers said at least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela since June 2007. Medical experts suspected an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
2009Aug 8In South Africa US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South African President Jacob Zuma pledged to cement closer ties between their new administrations.
2010Aug 8Matthew Simmons (67), who rattled the energy industry by arguing the world was rapidly approaching peak oil production capacity, died at his home in North Haven, Maine. In his 2005 book “Twilight in the Desert,” Simmons argued Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves were nearing the highest levels of production they were capable of achieving, after which point the world’s yearly oil supply would begin to decline.
2011Aug 8US House leaders announced that they are terminating the long-running congressional page program for high school students, both out of cost considerations, and in recognition of the diminished demand for page services in the digital age.
2012Aug 8In eastern Afghanistan two suicide attackers hit a NATO patrol, killing 3 American coalition service members and USAID foreign service officer Ragaei Abdelfattah. Afghan officials added that a civilian was also killed in the bombing in Kunar province.
2013Aug 8In San Francisco an inaugural gun buyback by SF Bay Area-based Gunbuyback.org collected 157 firearms in exchange for $15,500.
2014Aug 8A US federal court ruled that the NCAA has violated antitrust law in a 2009 case involving Ed O’Bannon, a former college basketball star. EA Sports, a video game company, had paid a flat fee to the NCAA but nothing to Mr. O’Bannon.

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