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
- 1503 –King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1588 –Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada’s attempt to invade England.
- 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.
- 1844 –The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
- 1863 –American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
- 1876 –Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- 1929 –The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
- 1946 –First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
- 1963 –Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
- 1967 –The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
- 1973 –Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
- 1980 –The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
- 1988 –The “8888 Uprising” occurs in Burma.
- 1989 –Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
- 1991 –The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
- 2000 –Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
- 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.
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