The August 8th is the 220e Jour of the Année (221e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. We celebrate the Dominique.

Events

1 to 1900

•    117: Hadrian becomes emperor in Rome.

•     449: Opening of the " Armed robbery of Éphèse ".
• 1322 : With the Japan, the emperor Go-Daigo indicates the monastery Sojiji like principal monastery of the sect Soto.
• 1549 : The France declares the war with the England.
• 1567 : The army of the pile cluster penetrates in Brussels.
• 1570 : Peace of Saint-Germain in Bush hammer
• 1588: The English fleet, ordered by Sir Francis Drake, destroyed the Spanish armada off the French coasts.
• 1609 : The Senate of Venice examines the telescope of Galileo.
• 1786 : 1st rise of the Mont Blanc by Jacques Balmat and the doctor Michel Paccard
• 1788: In France, the king Louis XVI convenes the General states for the May 5th 1789.
• 1793 : Lyon revolts against the mountain Convention.
• 1815 : Napoleon share in exile for the island of Grey waxbill
• 1817: Anne Louis Henri of Fare, old bishop of Nancy and old appointed with the General states of 1789 is named archbishop of Direction.
• 1854 : Adoption of the Four points of Vienna : The Russia gives up its influence in the Rumanian principalities; give up its project of religious protectorate; accept the freedom of navigation on the the Danube; as well as the modification of the Convention of the Straits of 1841 (more warships).
• 1870 : With Marseilles, vis-a-vis the disastrous situation of the country, an insurrectionary movement, with at its head the radical Gaston Crémieux, in vain tries to proclaim the République and to found a Common revolutionist. But the movement is quickly subdued and Crémieux is stopped the following day and is submitted in front of a council of war.
• 1873 : Paul Verlaine between with the prison of Mons in Belgium for two years to have drawn two blows from revolver on Arthur Rimbaud.
• 1876 : Thomas Edison invents the mimographe, also called Fax.
• 1880 : Opening to Boma, by missionary S Catholic S, first school of the Democratic republic of Congo, counting upon the departure a score of children.

XXe century

• 1916 : ( First World War ): In Italy, taken Gorizia by the 3rd Italian Army under the orders of the Duke of Aoste.

• 1918 : ( First World War ) According to Ludendorff, “the day of mourning of the German army”, several German divisions are swept by the allied forces.
• 1925 : The Ku Klux Klan holds its first public national congress in Washington.
• 1940 :
• First commercial flight of a plane with pressurized cabin, the Boeing 307 B.
• Beginning of the Battle of England.
• 1945 : Beginning of the Massacre of Sétif in Algeria, then French territory.
• 1949 : Independence of the Bhutan.
• 1955 : Opening to Geneva of a conference on the peaceful use of atomic energy.
• 1956 : Accident in the mine of the Wood of Cazier close to Marcinelle: 263 dead.
• 1963 : Attack of the mail train Glasgow-London: spoils of 30 franc million in tickets.
• 1965 :
• Singapore withdraws Malayan Federation and becomes an independent state.
• With Benidorm (Spain, Province of Alicante), alternate of Jose Subdued, Spanish Matador.
• 1966 : First Clerc's Office of a cardiac prosthesis with Houston (the United States).
• 1967 : Foundation of ASEAN
• 1969: Earthquake in Iran: : 22000 dead.
• 1974 : Richard Nixon resigns of her position of president of the United States following the Scandale of Watergate.
• 1983 : Coup d'etat to the Guatemala; Oscar Mejia Victores shift Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 1986 : Opening of the first Stock Exchange in China, with Shenyang.
• 1990 :
• the Iraq appendix the Kuwait.
• Raymond Goethals, trainer Belgian of the football club of the Of Gironde of Bordeaux, leaves the club.
• 1991 : Creation of the 8th area of the Mali, following the agreements of Tamanrasset (January 6th 1991), putting fine at the rebellion Tuareg of 1990 - 1991.
• 2000 :
• the former minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim is condemned to nine years of prison for Sodomie.
• Attack with Moscow close to the Pouchkine place: 7 died and 93 wounded.

XXIe century

• 2001 : Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk becomes Prime Minister for the Bhutan.

• 2002 :
• the North Korea and the South Korea decide the creation of a permanent place of meeting for the families separated by division from the peninsula.
• Deadline fixed by the capacity of the Zimbabwe at the white farmers to give up their grounds.
• 2003 : Gathering altermondialist of: 300000 people on the plate of the Larzac, from August 8th to 10th 2003.

Births

• 1518 : Conrad Lycosthenes, humanistic Alsatian († 1561)
• 1748: Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German Naturalist († 1804).
• 1816 : Filippo Parlatore, Italian botanist († 1877)
• 1857: Cecile Chaminade, pianist and French compositrice († 1944)
• 1890: Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, écrivaine, essay writer and resistant Polish († April 9th 1968)
• 1901: Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Nobel Prize of Physics in 1939.
• 1902: Paul Dirac, physicist, Nobel Prize of Physics in 1933 († October 20th 1984)
• 1907: Benny Casing, musician of American Jazz
• 1911: Philippe de Scitivaux, Aviator French of the Second world war, Companion of the Release. († August 10th 1986).
• 1931 : Roger Penrose, physicist and British mathematician
• 1937: Dustin Hoffman, American actor
• 1944: Bernard Menez, French actor
• 1948: Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, spationaut
• 1950: Martine Aubry, French political woman
• 1951: Mamoru Oshii, realizer Japan board
• 1958: Francis Lalanne, French singer
• 1961: The Edge (David Howell Evans), guitarist of the group U2
• 1978: Louis Saha, French footballer
• 1979: Jonas Tomalty, Canadian singer
• 1981: Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 1986: Charlotte Stokely, American actress of charm
• 1987: Katie Leung, actress interpreting Cho Chang in the shutters Harry Potter

Death

•    117: Trajan, Roman Emperor (° September 18th 53?)
• 1296 : Hugues de Brienne, count de Brienne and of Lecce. (° v. 1240).
• 1458 : Calixte III, pope.
• 1853 : Josef Hoëné-Wronski, philosopher and scientific free - Polish (° August 23rd 1776)
• 1926: Elizabeth Holmes, ( Elizabeth Swank ) known as Lizzie , Journalist and militant anarchistic American. (° 1850).
• 1928 : Antonín Sova, Czech poet (° February 26th 1864)
• 1936: Robert Bárány, Nobel Prize of medicine in 1914
• 1979: Feodor Lynen, biochemist, Nobel Prize of medicine in 1964
• 1988: Felix Leclerc, composer-songwriter, Québécois singer (° August 2nd 1914)
• 1991: James Irwin, American astronaut
• 2000: Gilles Thibaut, composer-songwriter, joint author of " As usual "
• 2001 :
• Jean Dorst, French naturalist (° August 7th 1924)
• Jean-Louis Fleming, French historian.
• 2003 : Falaba Iso Traoré writer, actor, realizer and playwright Malian (° towards 1930)
• 2004: Fay Wray, American actress (° September 15th 1907)
• 2005: Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (° October 31st 1922)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

• Émilien de Cyzique (+ towards 820), bishop confessor.
• Liébaut de Fleury (7th century), abbot founder of the Monastery of Saint-Beno4it cheese on the Loire.

Catholic saints

• Dominique de Guzmán, the founder of the Dominican Order.

See too

• August 8th in sport
• August 8th in the railroads

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