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
- 589 –Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo.
- 1450 –Jack Cade’s Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
- 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.
- 1821 –Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1886 –Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
- 1899 –The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
- 1912 –Paramount Pictures is founded.
- 1945 –Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
- 1946 –Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
- 1967 –The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- 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.
- 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 –Thames Barrier officially opened.
- 1984 –The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
- 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 Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
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