8 May

A list of events which occurred on the 8th of May.
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:Paramount Pictures is founded.
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:David Hurst is born.
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:Jay Devlin is born.
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:Marvin March is born.
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:Salome Jens is born.
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:Richard E. Butler is born.
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:Garth Pillsbury is born.
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:James L. McCoy is born.
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:Philip LeStrange is born.
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:Barnetta Fowler is born.
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:Abdul Salaam El Razzac is born.
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:Susan Duchow is born.
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:Della Van Hise is born.
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:Fifth day of filming on .
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:Story outline for is submitted.
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:John Kalisz is born.
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:Troy Brenna is born.
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: The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #85 with the fourth of nine installments.
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:Jinny Jacinto is born.
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:Brian Tyler is born.
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:Theodore Sturgeon dies.
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:Fifty-fifth day of filming on .
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: airs.
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:Seventeenth day of filming on .
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:Richard Derr dies.
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: airs.
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: airs.
: airs.
:CIC Video releases The Next Generation TV Movies volume 9 on VHS in the UK.
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: Twenty-third day of filming on .
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: Twenty-ninth day of filming on .
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: premieres in Japan.
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: and both air.
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:Philip Barberio dies.
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: has its first full day of release in the US, following advance screenings the night before.
: premieres in Austria, the Bahamas, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Noway, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, and Venezuela.
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:Eighty-third and final day of filming on . Principal photography is complete.
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:IDW Publishing releases "Red Level Down", issue #20 of the ongoing Star Trek series.
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:Nancy Malone dies.
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:William Schallert dies.
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: is released.
:Marta Dubois dies.
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