About May 8
May 8, 2021 is the 128th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 269 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 8
- 413 –Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.
- 1541 –Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu 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 Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
- 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.
- 1898 –The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
- 1912 –Paramount Pictures is founded.
- 1927 –Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes 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.
- 1941 –The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
- 1946 –Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
- 1963 –South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
- 1970 –The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
- 1972 –Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
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