MamaAugust 8, 1901 - October 18, 1986
1502 - Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor (so.. that was the beginning of all that flowery embroidery, Jacobean tapestries and other stuff)
1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage (also see this date in 1794)
1588 - Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
1673 - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC (didn't get it though, did they?)
1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1786 - Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
1794 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1844 - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1854 - Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1863 - American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday.
1864 - Red Cross forms in Geneva
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1876 - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 - Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution organizes
1901 - Pat- Arkansas's mother is born in Temple, TX (I didn't find this on the Internet, I already knew it)
1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1960 - "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 (I'll bet you know the tune, don't you?)
1963 - Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1968 - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres (see next entry)
1974 - Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
1974 - Pat-Arkansas plants a crepe myrtle tree in her mother's front yard in celebration of her birthday (this one didn't come from the Internet, either.)
1988 - Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
2007 - An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY HAPPEN TODAY?
In addition to my mother being born on this date, I discovered, through Internet research, that a great many historical events occurred on August 8, some of which may be of interest to you, and others not at all:
870 - Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans (I wonder where King Charles was bare?)
870 - Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans (I wonder where King Charles was bare?)
Post-publication note: I knew somewhere in the back of my brain that the above mentioned kings did not divide the Lutherans, which if I am correct, did not exist at the time. Further research on my own (rather than just picking up a list of historical dates from the internet) reveals that it was King Charles the Bald, and he and his (turns out) half-brother, Louis, divided Lotharingia, not the Lutherans! -- So, I guess, Charles the (not) Bare, was bare on the top of his head.
1502 - Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor (so.. that was the beginning of all that flowery embroidery, Jacobean tapestries and other stuff)
1588 - Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
1673 - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC (didn't get it though, did they?)
1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1786 - Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
1794 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1844 - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1854 - Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1863 - American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a holiday.
1864 - Red Cross forms in Geneva
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1876 - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 - Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution organizes
1901 - Pat- Arkansas's mother is born in Temple, TX (I didn't find this on the Internet, I already knew it)
1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1960 - "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 (I'll bet you know the tune, don't you?)
1963 - Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1968 - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres (see next entry)
1974 - Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
1974 - Pat-Arkansas plants a crepe myrtle tree in her mother's front yard in celebration of her birthday (this one didn't come from the Internet, either.)
1988 - Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
2007 - An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY HAPPEN TODAY?
