WillDekkard
05-08-2010, 04:00 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 8th
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* 589 Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
* 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
* 1541 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Rํo de Espํritu Santo.
* 1788 The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
* 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme G้n้rale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
* 1821 Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
* 1846 Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
* 1861 American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
* 1877 At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
* 1886 Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
* 1898 The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
* 1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
* 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pel้e erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
* 1914 Paramount Pictures is founded.
* 1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
* 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French warheroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
* 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
* 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
* 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the S้tif massacre.
* 1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
* 1945 End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
* 1946 Estonian school girls Aili J๕gi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
* 1963 Soldiers of Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
* 1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
* 1970 The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
* 1972 Vietnam War U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
* 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
* 1976 The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
* 1978 First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
* 1980 The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
* 1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
* 1984 Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Ren้ Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
* 1984 Thames Barrier officially opened.
* 1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
* 1988 A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
* 1997 A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Shenzhen's Huangtian Airport, killing 35 people.
* 1999 Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
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- May 8th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 589 Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
* 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
* 1541 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Rํo de Espํritu Santo.
* 1788 The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
* 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme G้n้rale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
* 1821 Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
* 1846 Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
* 1861 American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
* 1877 At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
* 1886 Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
* 1898 The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
* 1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
* 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pel้e erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
* 1914 Paramount Pictures is founded.
* 1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
* 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French warheroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
* 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
* 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
* 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the S้tif massacre.
* 1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
* 1945 End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
* 1946 Estonian school girls Aili J๕gi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
* 1963 Soldiers of Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
* 1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
* 1970 The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
* 1972 Vietnam War U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
* 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
* 1976 The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
* 1978 First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
* 1980 The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
* 1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
* 1984 Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Ren้ Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
* 1984 Thames Barrier officially opened.
* 1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
* 1988 A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
* 1997 A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Shenzhen's Huangtian Airport, killing 35 people.
* 1999 Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
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