8 September

The 8t o September is the 251t day o the year (252t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 114 days bidin.

 Events 
 1504 - Michelangelo's statue Dauvit is unveiled in Florence.
 1727 - A barn fire durin a puppet show in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, Ingland, kills 78 fowk, maist o them bairns.
 1831 - Coronation o King William IV o the Unitit Kinrick.
 1900 - A hurricane devastates Galveston on the Texas coast, killin 8,000 fowk.
 1926 - Germany is admittit tae the League o Naitions.
 1934 - A fire on baird the passenger liner SS Morro Castle aff New Jersey kills 135 fowk.
 1941 - Warld War II: The Siege o Leningrad begins.
 1943 - Warld War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower propales the alleed airmistice wi Italy.
 1962 - Algerie adopts its constitution.
 1966 - Star Trek is braidcast for the first time.
 1974 - US Preses Gerald Ford pardons his predecessor, Richard Nixon.
 1989 - Partnair Flicht 394 crashes intae the German Ocean aff Denmark, killin 55 fowk.
 1991 - The Republic o Macedonie (later North Macedonie) declares unthirldom frae Yugoslavie.
 1994 - USAir Flicht 427 crashes on approach tae Pittsburgh Internaitional Airport in Pennsylvanie, killin aw 132 fowk on baird.
 2004 - The Genesis space probe crash-launds in Utah fower year efter its launch.
 2013 - A train crash in Iasi County, Romanie, kills 11 fowk.
 2018 - Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player tae win a Grand Slam singles' teetle, at the US Open, in a match kent for Serena Williams' disputes wi the umpire.
 2019 - Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets tae win the US Open, an tae secure his 19nt Grand Slam singles teetle, puttin him ane ahint Roger Federer; this an aa means that nae male player born efter 1988 haes managed tae win a Grand Slam singles teetle in the 2010s decade.

 Births 
 1157 - King Richard I o Ingland (d. 1199)
 1588 - Marin Mersenne, French mathemateecian an philosopher (d. 1648)
 1633 - Ferdinand IV, Keeng o the Romans (d. 1654)
 1779 - Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
 1830 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet (d. 1914)
 1841 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech componer (d. 1904)
 1922 - Sid Caesar, American actor an comedian (d. 2014)
 1924 - Wendell H. Ford, American politeecian (d. 2015)
 1925 - Peter Sellers, Inglis actor (d. 1980)
 1930 - Mario Adorf, German actor
 1932 - Patsy Cline, American sangster (d. 1963)
 1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, Breetish componer (d. 2016)
 1941 - Bernie Sanders, American politeecian
 1944 - Margaret Hodge, Inglis politeecian
 1946 - Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biochemist an molecular biologist
 1951 - John McDonnell, Inglis politeecian
 1957 - Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-Venezuelan sangster-sangwriter
 1961 - Kenneth Gibson, Scots politeecian
 1969 - Gary Speed, Welsh fitbawer (d. 2011)
 1970 - Michael Matheson, Scots politeecian
 1971 - Martin Freeman, Inglis actor
 1979 - Pink, American sangster
 1983 - Diego Benaglio, Swiss fitbawer
 1987 - Wiz Khalifa, American rapper an sangster
 1989 - Avicii, Swadish DJ an record producer (d. 2018)
 1989 - Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spaingie nobleman, politeecian an writer (b. 1580)
 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist an botanist (b. 1741)
 1949 - Richard Strauss, German componer (b. 1864)
 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress an sangster (b. 1922)
 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German filmmaker (b. 1902)
 2009 - Aage Bohr, Dens pheesicist (b. 1922)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day (Andorrae, North Macedonie)
 Victory Day (Pakistan)
 Internaitional Literacy Day

Category:Days o the year