September 8

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining. \n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

Events

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upto 19th century

\n*1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia\n*1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance. \n*1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor. \n*1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18). \n*1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas. \n*1771 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California. \n*1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano. \n*1810 - 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 will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria. \n*1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. \n*1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman is found.\n*1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played. \n

20th century and later

\n*1900 - Great Galveston Hurricane: A large hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 6,000 people. \n*1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.\n*1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.\n*1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people. \n*1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building. \n*1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. \n*1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.\n* 1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik was executed by the Nazis. \n*1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time. \n*1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.\n*1945 - Cold War: 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. \n*1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. \n*1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established. \n*1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). \n*1966 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs. \n*1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. \n*1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. \n*1994 - A Boeing 737 carrying USAir Flight 427 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors. \n*1995 - Timon and Pumbaa Launches On All Major Television networks\n*1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season. \n*1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

Births

\n*828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)\n*1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)\n*1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal\n*1841 - Antonin Dvorak, composer (d. 1904)\n*1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete\n*1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet (d. 1967)\n*1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft, Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)\n*1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, country music singer, composer (d. 1933)\n*1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director (d. 1994)\n*1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun, architect (d. 2001)\n*1922 - Sid Caesar, comedian\n*1925 - Peter Sellers, actor (d. 1980)\n*1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam\n*1932 - Patsy Cline, country music singer\n*1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer\n*1937 - Virna Lisi, actress (d. 1963)\n*1938 - Sam Nunn, Senator from Georgia\n*1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, musician (the Grateful Dead)\n*1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer\n*1947 - Ann Beattie, writer\n*1960 - Aimee Mann, musician\n*1964 - Michael Johns, business executive and former White House speechwriter to President of the United States George H.W. Bush\n*1970 - Neko Case, musician\n*1971 - Brooke Burke, model\n*1979 - Pink (Alecia Moore), singer\n*1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor

Deaths

\n*780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor \n*1637 - Robert Fludd\n*1780 - Enoch Poor, Brigadier General in the Continental Army (b. 1736)\n*1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)\n*1933 - Faysal I, king of Iraq\n*1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech communist and journalist, executed by Nazis.\n*1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)\n*1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress\n*1969 - Bud Collyer, television game show host\n*1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, buddhist and writer\n*1977 - Zero Mostel, actor\n*1979 - Jean Seberg, actress\n*1981 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist\n*2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, movie maker

Holidays

\n* Mare de Deu de Meritxell - National day of Andorra\n*Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í Calendar\n* Catholicism - Feast of the Birth of Mary

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