May 8th

The May 8th is the 128e Jour of the Année (129e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

590 : The holy pope Gregoire Large the announces the end of the Peste which devastates Rome: the mausoleum of Hadrian becomes Château Saint-Angel.
795 : The emperor Constantin VI victorious of Islamic troops with Anousan.
1360 : Signature of the Treated of Brétigny between the France and the England.
1370 : The cardinal Jean de Dormans, old bishop of Beauvais, founds the Collège known as of Beauvais , in the university of Paris.
1429 : The seat of Orleans is raised by the English. They yield vis-a-vis the French army ordered by Jeanne d' Arc
1492: Publication with Naples (Italy), by Josué Solomon Soncino and Joseph Ibn Piso of the first edition of the Mishna supplements, including/understanding the comment of Moïse Maïmonide and its introduction on the development of the oral law.
1541 : The explorer Hernando de Soto discovers the the Mississippi.
1738 : Sale of the Viscount of Turenne (19), tax shelter, in Louis XV.
1769 : Battle of Big shot Novu, the Corsicans are beaten by the troops of Louis XV
1788: Attempt at reform of Lamoignon. The rights of the Parliament are reduced by the institution of a plenary court entitled to record the ordinances and to present to the king the remonstrances.
1794 : Execution of the 28 farmer general with Paris, of which Antoine Lavoisier.
1886 : The pharmacist and American chemist John Styth Pemberton of Atlanta, in Georgia, invents the most famous fizzy drink of all times, the Coca-Cola.
1898 : Creation of the League of the Human rights.

1902 : the eruption of the Peeled Mountain, in Martinique, made 30 000 dead.
1913 : Reception of the king d' Espagne, Alphonse XIII, by Raymond Poincaré with the Castle of Fontainebleau.
1945 :

the marshal Keitel sign the unconditional surrender of the Germany, the Second world war ends in Europe.
Demonstrations in Sétif (Algeria) to celebrate the capitulation. These demonstrations led to hard repressed riots. It 110 had died there European and between 10.000 and 45.000 dead Algerian.

1949 : Proclamation of the the Federal Republic of Germany.
1953 : May 8th becomes Bank holiday in France.
1954 : Creation of the Asian Confederation of football.
1978 : Jacques Mesrine escapes in company of another prisoner from the Prison from Health to Paris.
1981 : May 8th becomes again bank holiday and been unemployed in France.
1984 : The the USSR announces that it will not take part in the Olympic Games of Los Angeles.
1986 : Four feastdays mark, with Atlanta, the centenary of the development of the formula of the Coca-Cola
1988: In France, François Mitterrand gains the presidential election, with 54% of the voices compared with 46% for Jacques Chirac.
1996 :

the South Africa obtains a new Constitution which guarantees the equal rights and completes the passage of the old mode of apartheid to a liberal democracy.
the Paris-Saint-Germain gains the cut of Europe.

2002 : An car bomb attack made in front of a hotel of Karachi (Pakistan) costs the life 14 people, 11 French and 3 Pakistani (more twelve wounded).

1698 : Henry Baker, British Naturalist († May 8th 1774)
1753: Miguel Hidalgo there Costilla, father of the independence of the Mexico to Guanajuato.
1828 : Henry Dunant, humanistic Switzerland, founder of the the Red Cross († 1910)
1848: Jose Sánchez del Campo says “Cara Ancha”, Spanish Matador († 1925)
1814: Michel Bakounine, anarchistic philosopher Russian († July 1st 1876).
1871 : Louis Madelin, French historian and academician († August 18th 1956)
1884: Harry Truman, 33e president of the the United States († with Independence, Missouri on December 26th 1972)
1895: Jose Gómez Ortega known as “Joselito” or “Gallito”, Spanish Matador († May 16th 1920)
1898: Henri Adeline, Brigadier general and resistant French. († April 30th 1971).
1899 : Friedrich August von Hayek, economist of the Austrian School († March 23rd 1992)
1903: Fernandel, French actor († February 26th 1971)
1906: Roberto Rossellini, Italian realizer († 1977)
1911: Robert Johnson, American musician († August 16th 1938)
1914:

1964: Melissa Gilbert, American actress
1969: Fabrice Tiozzo, French boxer
1975: Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer, born in Madrid
2003: Moulay Hassan, wire of the princess Lalla Salma and king Mohammed VI (Morocco)

535 : The Pope Jean II
1672: Mr. de Tréville, Lieutenant Capitaine of the company of the Musketeer S
1774: Henry Baker, British Naturalist .
1788 : Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, entomologist Italy N of Austrian origin (° 1723).
1794 : Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, carried out.
1828 : Dixon Denham, British officer (° January 1st 1786)
1842: Jules Dumont d' Urville, exploring French
1873: John Stuart Mill, philosopher and British economist
1880: Gustave Flaubert, writer French
1919: Véra Zassoulitch, revolutionary Russian
1952: William Fox, producing American of cinema, founder of the Fox Corp Film. (° January 1st 1879)
1975: Avery Brundage, philanthropist and American collector, president of the International Olympic committee of 1952 with 1972
1982:

1988: Robert A. Heinlein, American author of science fiction
1990: Luigi Nono, Italian type-setter
1993: Avram Davidson, American author of science fiction
1994: George Peppard, American actor (° 1928)
1996: Shine Miguel González Lucas known as “Luis Miguel Dominguín”, Matador (° November 9th 1926)
1997: Paul Préboist, French actor (° 1927)
1999:

Commemoration of the capitulation of the German army on May 8th 1945, bank holiday in France. The tradition wants that the President of the French Republic deposits a sheaf under the Triumphal arch of the Star, on the Tombe of the Unknown soldier at the time of these celebrations.

Desired of Bourges (+ 550), bishop.
Hellade of Auxerre (+ 387), bishop.
Ida de Nivelles
Jean the Theologist (+ 117), apostle and evangelist (date in the East).
Michel (archangel) Miracle of the victory of Sipontains (Gargan mount) and appearance in 590 on the Mausoleum of Hadrian (Castle Saint-Angel) in Rome.
Wiron of Flandres (7th century), Irish bishop recluse close to Roermund.

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