History Events on September 08

The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.

#Steamship

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.

#Battle_of_Bassano

Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.

#Charles_X_Gustav_of_Sweden

World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.

#World_War_I

The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil.

#Vitória,_Espírito_Santo

World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.

#World_War_II

Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.

#Trans_International_Airlines_Flight_863

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.

#Pines_Express

Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.

#Yellowstone_fires_of_1988

Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.

#Ghazi_of_Iraq

Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

#Watergate_scandal

Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.

#Stefan_Dušan

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.

#John_F._Kennedy_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts

Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.

#Battle_of_Huoyi

In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).

#Marshall_Space_Flight_Center

Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700-3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.

#Black_Friday_(1978)

St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

#St._Augustine,_Florida

Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

#Weimar_Republic

The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

#Division_of_Korea

Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.

#Rif_War

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.

#French_Revolutionary_Wars

The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.

#Rising_of_the_Priests

NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit 101955 Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.

#OSIRIS-REx

American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

#American_Civil_War

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

#Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization

Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.

#Millennium_of_Russia

Brigid Kosgei breaks the women's half marathon world record in a time of 1:04.28 at the 2019 Great North Run.

#Brigid_Kosgei

Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.

#Partnair_Flight_394

Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

#1900_Galveston_hurricane

World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the armistice with Italy.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.

#Battle_of_Kulikovo

In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.

#Van_Buren_sisters

French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

#French_and_Indian_War

Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

#Margaret_Gorman

The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

#Northern_Pacific_Railway

US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

#Huey_Long

Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.

#Battle_of_Orsha

A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

#Burwell,_Cambridgeshire

Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM 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.

#Ilyushin_Il-76

World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.

#V-2_rocket

NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

#Genesis_(spacecraft)

3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

#3M

The foundation day in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil.

#São_Luís,_Maranhão

Pope John XXI is chosen.

#Pope_John_XXI

In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

#Annie_Chapman

Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by king Boles?aw II.

#Pope_Innocent_IV

The 7.2 Mw? Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.

#1905_Calabria_earthquake

Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

#Honda_Point_disaster

Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.

#David_(Michelangelo)

USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.

The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.

The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.

The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.

World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.

Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.

The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

In England, the first six Football League matches are played.

Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.

November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.

William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.

The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.

Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.

The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boles?aw the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.

Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of Germany (King of the Romans)

Election of Antipope Theodoric.