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Events of the day

1220 โ€“ Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 โ€“ King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1576 โ€“ The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
1585 โ€“ John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 โ€“ Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines โ€“ The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 โ€“ The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 โ€“ The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill โ€“ English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 โ€“ Bartolomeu de Gusmรฃo demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon
1786 โ€“ Mont Blanc on the French โ€“ Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 โ€“ The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 โ€“ Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1844 โ€“ The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1863 โ€“ 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 (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 โ€“ The Republic of PloieลŸti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 โ€“ Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908 โ€“ Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1918 โ€“ World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1929 โ€“ The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1940 โ€“ The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 โ€“ Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
1945 โ€“ World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
1946 โ€“ First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
1960 โ€“ South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1963 โ€“ Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1967 โ€“ The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1973 โ€“ Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 President Richard M. Nixon formally resigns from the office of the President of the United States, in a televised address
1980 โ€“ The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
1988 โ€“ The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1989 โ€“ Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission โ€“ Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 โ€“ Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 โ€“ The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
2000 โ€“ Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
2007 โ€“ An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 โ€“ 2008 South Ossetia war broke out. Between Georgia on one side, Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other.
2010 โ€“ 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day:
Cyriacus
Dominic de Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order.
Hormisdas
Largus
Mary MacKillop
Smaragdus (and companions)
August 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Melon Day can fall, while August 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in August. (Turkmenistan)
Farmerโ€™s Day or Nane Nane, Swahili for "8-8". (Tanzania)
Father's Day or Bฤ bฤ Day (็ˆธ็ˆธ็ฏ€), Bฤ Bฤ is Mandarin for "father" and "8-8", or August 8. (Taiwan)
Flag Day, namesday of Queen Silvia. (Sweden)

 

 

 

 

 



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