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.
- 1888In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral’s submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
- 1888In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- 1888In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- 1892The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1900Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- 1914World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1921Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 1923Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 1925Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima (Northern Morocco).
- 1926Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 19303M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- 1933Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
- 1934Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- 1935US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
- 1941World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
- 1943World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- 1943World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
- 1944World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
- 1944World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
- 1945Cold 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.
- 1946A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
- 1951Treaty 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.
- 1952The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
- 1954The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- 1955United Nations Security Council Resolution 108 is adopted.
- 1959The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- 1960In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
- 1962Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1962Last 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.
- 1965Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
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