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

Events

1 to 1900

• 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.

20th century

• 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.

21e century

• 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).

Births

• 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:
• Maurice Aubert, geologist French († December 8th 2005)
• Romain Gary, novelist French († 1980)
• 1930: Fruit-bearing Edgar, music lover, actor Québécois
• 1938: Moebius (Jean Giraud), French draftsman
• 1945: Keith Jarrett, pianist and American type-setter
• 1947: Katia Tchenko, French actress.
• 1948 : Maurizio Nichetti, Actor, Realizer and Scenario writer Italy N.
• 1952 : Charles Camarda, American astronaut
• 1953: Isabelle Alonso, chroniqueuse and militant Frenchwoman of Spanish origin
• 1957: Marie Myriam, French singer
• 1963:
• Michel Gondry, French realizer
• Laurence Boccolini, humorist and stimulating French
• 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)

Death

• 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:
• Gilles Villeneuve, racing driver
• Alfred Adam, French actor
• 1985:
• Edmond O' Brien, American actor
• Theodore Sturgeon, American author of science fiction
• 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:
• Dirk Bogarde, British actor
• Dana Plato, American actress
• 2000
• Hubert Maga, president of the Benign (° August 10th 1916)
• Andre Fortin, Composer-songwriter Interpreter Québécois (° November 17th 1962)
• 2004: William Joseph Knight, astronaut of USAF (° November 18th 1929)

Celebrations

• 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.

• johannic Festivals with Orleans.

First names

• Desired, Desired
• Jeanne
• Tunvez, Dunvel, Dunvelig, Tunvel

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• 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.

See too

• May 8th in sport
• May 8th in the railroads

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