September 8

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September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 114 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 – Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
• 1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
• 1331 – Stephen Uroš IV Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
• 1380 – Battle of Kulikovo – Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1449 – Battle of Tumu Fortress – Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
• 1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
• 1514 – Battle of Orsha – in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
• 1551 – The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
• 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles St. Augustine, Florida.
• 1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.
• 1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
• 1756 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
• 1761 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano – French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
• 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 arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
• 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 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.
• 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 – 16-year-old Margaret Gorman 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.
• 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• 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 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 V2 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.
• 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.
• 1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• 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.
• 1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
• 1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
• 1968 – The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit "Hey Jude".
• 1970 – Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
• 1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is later given a general discharge.
• 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• 1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
• 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
• 2007 – Sabrina Deep claimed to have broken the world record for the largest and longest gangbang broadcast live on webcam.

Births

• 801 – Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
• 828 – Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
• 1157 – King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
• 1207 – King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
• 1271 – Charles Martel of Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
• 1380 – Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
• 1474 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
• 1515 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
• 1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
• 1611 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
• 1621 – Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
• 1633 – Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
• 1672 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
• 1742 – Ozias Humphrey, English artist (d. 1810)
• 1749 – Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
• 1749 – Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, Italian-born French aristocrat (d. 1792)
• 1750 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler, the 4^th Yokozuna (d. 1795)
• 1767 – August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845)
• 1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
• 1783 – Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1804 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
• 1814 – Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
• 1824 – Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (d. 1908)
• 1828 – Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American Civil War soldier (d. 1914)
• 1828 – Clarence Cook, American writer and art critic (d. 1900)
• 1830 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
• 1841 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
• 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
• 1846 – Catchick Paul Chater, Hong Kong businessman(d. May 27, 1926)
• 1852 – Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
• 1857 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Alfred Jarry, French playwright (d. 1907)
• 1873 – David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
• 1881 – Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
• 1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (d. 1967)
• 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
• 1894 – John Samuel Bourque, Quebec politician (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
• 1896 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
• 1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933)
• 1901 – Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Frank Cady, American actor
• 1915 – Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Sid Caesar, American comedian
• 1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician
• 1924 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
• 1924 – Grace Metalious, American novelist (d. 1964)
• 1924 – Jean-Paul Cloutier, Quebec politician
• 1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor (d. 1980)
• 1927 – Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
• 1929 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1930 – Mario Adorf, Swiss-born German actor
• 1930 – Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese politician
• 1930 – Robert W. Firestone, American clinical psychologist, author of a number of books about psychological defenses, and visual artist.
• 1931 – John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
• 1933 – Asha Bhosle, Indian singer
• 1933 – Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
• 1933 – Michael Frayn, British playwright
• 1933 – Eric Salzman, American composer
• 1934 – Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician
• 1934 – Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer
• 1937 – Barbara Frum, Canadian news anchor (d. 1992)
• 1937 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress
• 1937 – Sam Nunn, American politician
• 1938 – Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
• 1939 – Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
• 1939 – Guitar Shorty, American musician
• 1940 – Quentin L. Cook, LDS apostle
• 1941 – Bernie Sanders, American politician
• 1942 – Brian Cole, American musician (The Association) (d. 1972)
• 1943 – Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
• 1944 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer
• 1945 – Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
• 1945 – Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player
• 1947 – Ann Beattie, American writer
• 1947 – Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
• 1947 – Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Halldor Asgrimsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1948 – Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
• 1948 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1950 – Zachary Richard, American singer and songwriter
• 1950 – Mike Simpson, American politician
• 1951 – Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
• 1953 – Pascal Greggory, French actor
• 1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman, English film and television actor
• 1954 – Anne Diamond, English television presenter
• 1954 – Mark Foley, American politician
• 1954 – Michael Shermer, American science writer
• 1954 – Giorgos Toussas, Greek politician
• 1955 – Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
• 1955 – Julian Richings, English-born Canadian actor
• 1956 – Mick Brown, American drummer (Dokken)
• 1956 – Maurice Cheeks, American basketball player and coach
• 1956 – Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
• 1957 – Heather Thomas, American actress
• 1958 – Michael Lardie, American musician
• 1958 – Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
• 1959 – Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
• 1959 – Carmen Campagne, Canadian singer and children's entertainer
• 1960 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman; husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (d. 1990)
• 1960 – Aimee Mann, American musician
• 1960 – David Steele, English musician
• 1960 – Aguri Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
• 1961 – Paul Zanetti, Australian political cartoonist
• 1962 – Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player
• 1962 – Christopher Klim, American novelist
• 1962 – Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• 1962 – Jay Ziskrout, American punk bassist ex-Bad Religion
• 1963 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
• 1963 – Brad Silberling, American television and film director
• 1963 – Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian
• 1964 – Michael Johns, American business executive
• 1964 – Scott Levy, American professional wrestler
• 1964 – Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
• 1965 – Darlene Zschech, Australian Christian Singer
• 1966 – Carola, Swedish singer
• 1966 – Peter Furler, Australian musician (Newsboys)
• 1967 – Kimberly Peirce, American film director
• 1969 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
• 1969 – Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1969 – Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer
• 1969 – Chris Powell, English footballer
• 1970 – Neko Case, American musician
• 1970 – Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
• 1970 – Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker
• 1970 – Paul DiPietro, Canadian-born Swiss ice hockey player
• 1970 – Andy Ward, Irish rugby player
• 1971 – Brooke Burke, American model
• 1971 – Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer
• 1971 – David Arquette, American actor
• 1971 – Martin Freeman, English actor
• 1971 – Pierre Sévigny, French-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer
• 1972 – Markus Babbel, German footballer
• 1972 – Os du Randt, South African rugby player
• 1972 – Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor
• 1972 – Lisa Kennedy, American television personality
• 1972 – Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
• 1972 – Phil Laak, Irish-born American professional poker player
• 1973 – Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1973 – Troy Sanders, American bassist and frontman of Mastodon
• 1974 – Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer
• 1974 – Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-born American documentarian
• 1975 – Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
• 1975 – Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
• 1975 – Larenz Tate, American actor
• 1975 – Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer
• 1975 – Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
• 1976 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
• 1976 – Gerald Drummond and Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballers
• 1976 – Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms)
• 1976 – Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter
• 1977 – Jay McKee, Canadian hockey player
• 1978 – Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Emanuele Ferraro, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Gil Meche, American baseball player
• 1978 – Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and performer
• 1979 – Pink, American singer
• 1980 – Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer
• 1980 – Slim Thug, American rapper
• 1981 – Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
• 1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor
• 1983 – Wali Lundy, American football player
• 1983 – Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
• 1983 – Will Blalock, American basketball player
• 1983 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer
• 1983 – Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
• 1984 – Peter Whittingham, English footballer
• 1984 – Bobby Parnell, American baseball player
• 1985 – Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant
• 1986 – João Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 – Matt Grothe, American football player
• 1987 – Wiz Khalifa, American hip-hop artist
• 1987 – Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
• 1988 – Arrelious Benn, American football player
• 1988 – Caitlin Hill, Australian internet personality
• 1988 – Chantal Jones, American fashion model
• 1988 – Gustav Schäfer, German drummer (Tokio Hotel)
• 1989 – Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1990 – Matt Barkley, American football player
• 1996 – Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress
• 1997 – Kimberlea Berg, English actress

Deaths

• 701 – Pope Sergius I
• 780 – Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
• 1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (b. 1355)
• 1425 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1539 – John Stokesley, English churchman
• 1560 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1532)
• 1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1530)
• 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
• 1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
• 1637 – Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
• 1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
• 1644 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
• 1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
• 1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
• 1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
• 1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1739 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
• 1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
• 1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
• 1780 – Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
• 1784 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
• 1831 – John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
• 1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836)
• 1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
• 1933 – King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1943 – Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
• 1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b.1881)
• 1948 – Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
• 1970 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
• 1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
• 1991 – Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Bill Ricker, Canadian founder of fisheries science (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
• 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Evan Tanner, UFC Champion (b. 1971)
• 2008 – Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
• 2009 – Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Nativity of Mary (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Our Lady of Charity
  • Pope Sergius I
  • September 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Auditor's Day can fall, while September 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in September. (Church of Scientology)
• Feast of 'Izzat (Might) – First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
• Independence day, celebrates the independence of Macedonia from Yugoslavia in 1991.
• International Literacy Day (International)
• National day, also the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell. (Andorra)
• Navy Day (Pakistan)
• The first day of Fiestas de Santa Fe, marked by the burning of the Zozobra (New Mexico)
• Victory Day, also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja (Malta)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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