About August 8
August 8, 2025 is the 220th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 193 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 8
- 1220 –Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
- 1503 –King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1585 –John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
- 1605 –The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
- 1647 –The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
- 1709 –Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon
- 1786 –Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
- 1793 –The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
- 1870 –The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
- 1876 –Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- 1918 –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).
- 1942 –Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence.
- 1945 –World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
- 1946 –First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
- 1960 –South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
- 1990 –Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
- 1991 –The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
- 2007 –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.
- 2010 –2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
- 2011 –London Riot 2011. This took place between 6th August 2011 and 10th August 2011. between the 6th and 7th a peaceful march in Tottenham, London was followed by rioting and looting, first in Tottenham.
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