On This Day August 8th

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August 8th is the two-hundredth-twentieth day of the year, and there are 145 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England, at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.

1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.

1863 – Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson freed his personal slaves in Greeneville, Tennessee, despite being exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, now commemorated as Emancipation Day.

1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

1903 – Black Saturday occurs, killing 12 in a stadium collapse in Philadelphia.[6]

1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.

1945 – The London Charter was signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.

1969—At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took the iconic photo that became the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

1974—President Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the office of the President of the United States in a nationwide television address, effective noon the next day.

2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

 

Birthdays

1492 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (d. 1582)

1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)

1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic (d. 1746)

1754 – Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist (d. 1816)

1856 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English journalist-author (d. 1934)

1879 – Bob Smith, American physician surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)

1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952)

1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (d. 1953)

1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor, producer (d. 2010)

1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer (d. 1997)

1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2017)

1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor

1953 – Don Most, American actor and singer.

1961 – The Edge, British-Irish musician, singer, and songwriter.

 

 

Holiday Spotlight

National Tarantula Appreciation Day

Tarantulas, the ancestors of modern spider species, have been on Earth for about 120 million years. Originally found in the Americas, their forefathers, spiders, emerged in Africa roughly 108 million years ago. They later established themselves in India, spreading to Asia when the tectonic shift separated India from Madagascar 95 million years ago. Today, Asia is home to thousands of spider species. In literature and mythology, tarantulas have been both revered and demonized, with works like “Metamorphoses” and “Charlotte’s Web” portraying them in different lights.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Bonza Bottler Day

Bullet Journal Day

Dalek Day

Happiness Happens Day

International Cat Day

National CBD Day

National Dollar Day

National Frozen Custard Day

National Zucchini Day

Odie Day - (Garfield's Friend)

Scottish Wildcat Day

Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night

The Date to Create

Universal & International Infinity Day

Wear Your Mother Jewelry Day