About May 8
May 8, 2025 is the 128th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 285 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.
- 1450 –Jack Cade’s Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
- 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.
- 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 first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
- 1898 –The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
- 1899 –The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
- 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. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
- 1924 –the Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
- 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
- 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.
- 1945 –End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
- 1945 –Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
- 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.
- 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 demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
- 1980 –The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
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