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September 8 Historical Events

The following events took place on September 8. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 75 events. Showing 31 - 60.

  • 1888
    In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral’s submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
  • 1888
    In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
  • 1888
    In England the first six Football League matches are played.
  • 1892
    The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
  • 1900
    Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
  • 1914
    World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • 1921
    Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • 1923
    Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
  • 1925
    Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima (Northern Morocco).
  • 1926
    Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
  • 1930
    3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
  • 1933
    Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
  • 1934
    Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
  • 1935
    US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
  • 1941
    World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
  • 1943
    World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
  • 1943
    World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
  • 1944
    World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
  • 1944
    World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
  • 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.
  • 1946
    A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
  • 1951
    Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
  • 1952
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
  • 1954
    The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
  • 1955
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 108 is adopted.
  • 1959
    The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
  • 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).
  • 1962
    Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
  • 1962
    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, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
  • 1965
    Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.

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