August 08

Monday 08, 2005:

The Generation Sound Machine Experience a Hard/Psychedelic Rock band, broke up, after playing together for almost 5 years.

Tuesday 08, 2000:

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

Thursday 08, 1991:

Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

Tuesday 08, 1989:

STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

Monday 08, 1988:

General Ne Win, ruler of Burma since 1962, suddenly resigns.

Tuesday 08, 1978:

Odie makes his first appearance in the cartoon strip Garfield

Thursday 08, 1974:

Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).

Wednesday 08, 1973:

Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.

Thursday 08, 1968:

Jur? Wada, a doctor at the Sapporo Medical School, successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.

Tuesday 08, 1967:

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.

Thursday 08, 1963:

Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.

Wednesday 08, 1962:

Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977. She and the two men she hired to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958 die in San Quentin's gas chamber.

Monday 08, 1949:

Bhutan becomes independent

Wednesday 08, 1945:

The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, and that nation becomes the third to join the new international organization.

Saturday 08, 1942:

1942- Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, which leads to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India

Monday 08, 1938:

The Mauthausen concentration camp opens.

Friday 08, 1930:

Betty Boop premieres in the animated film "Dizzy Dishes".

Thursday 08, 1929:

The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29).

Thursday 08, 1918:

Canadian troops, backed by Australians, begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call this the "black day of the German army."

Tuesday 08, 1911:

Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law will take effect in 1913.

Tuesday 08, 1876:

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

Saturday 08, 1863:

American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (Davis will refuse the request upon receipt).

Thursday 08, 1844:

During a meeting held in Nauvoo, the Quorum of Twelve, headed by Brigham Young, is created as the leading body of the Mormon Church.

Tuesday 08, 1786:

Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.

Thursday 08, 1647:

Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.

Monday 08, 1605:

The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

Monday 08, 1588:

Defeated by the English during an invasion attempt, the surviving parts of the Spanish Armada begin to sail home. Only 67 of the original 130 ships will later reach Spain and most of these will be in poor condition.

Thursday 08, 1585:

John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the North West Passage.

Sunday 08, 1509:

The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife.

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