8 Mey

The **8t o Mey** is the 128t day o the year (129t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 237 days ti come.

## Events

*1541 &ndash; Hernando de Soto becomes the first-kent European tae reach the Mississippi River.
*1788 &ndash; The French Pairlament is suspendit tae be replaced bi the creation o fowerty-seiven new coorts.
*1794 &ndash; French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executit on the guillotine.
*1819 &ndash; Kamehameha I, the first king o the unified Kinrick o Hawaii, dees.
*1842 &ndash; The Versailles rail accident in Fraunce kills 50-200 fowk, incluidin splorer Jules Dumont d'Urville an his faimily.
*1886 &ndash; Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonatit beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
*1901 &ndash; The Australie Labor Pairty is foondit.
*1902 &ndash; In Martinique, Munt Pelée erupts, destroyin the toun o Saunt-Pierre an killin ower 30,000 fowk. Anly a haundfu o residents survive the blast.
*1941 &ndash; Warld War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombin raid on Nottingham an Derby.
*1945 &ndash; Warld War II: Victory in Europe Day - combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, Fraunce, to an uncondeetional surrender.
*1978 &ndash; Reinhold Messner an Peter Habeler reach the top o Munt Everest withoot oxygen supply.
*1980 &ndash; The eradication o smaapox is endorsed bi the Warld Heal Organization.
*1984 &ndash; The Soviet Union withdraws frae the 1984 Simmer Olympics in Los Angeles.
*1984 &ndash; The River Thames Barrier opens.
*1988 &ndash; François Mitterrand is re-electit Preses o Fraunce.
*1995 &ndash; The Unitit Kinrick haulds a special Bank Halyday tae mairk the 50t anniversary o Victory in Europe Day.
*2003 &ndash; A train is sliced in twa in Siofok, Hungary, in a colleession wi a bus; 30 passengers on the bus, an its driver, are kilt.
*2007 &ndash; A pouer-sharin agreement enters intae force in Northren Ireland, wi Ian Paisley as First Meenister an Martin McGuinness as his deputy.
*2013 &ndash; Alex Ferguson propales his retirement as manager o Manchester United F.C..
*2015 &ndash; In response tae the results o the previous day's Unitit Kinrick general election, Labour Pairty leader Ed Miliband an Leeberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg propale thair demissions.
*2018 &ndash; US Preses Donald Trump pulls the Unitit States oot o the Iran nuclear agreement.
*2019 &ndash; Elections are held in Sooth Africae; the African Naitional Congress unner Cyril Ramaphosa wins the maist votes, but wi a reduced percentage.

## Births

*1587 &ndash; Victor Amadeus I, Duke o Savoy (d. 1637)
*1720 &ndash; William Cavendish, 4t Duke o Devonshire, Prime meenister o Great Breetain (d. 1764)
*1737 &ndash; Edward Gibbon, Inglis historian (d. 1794)
*1753 &ndash; Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest (d. 1811)
*1821 &ndash; William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1885)
*1828 &ndash; Henry Dunant, Swiss humanitarian (d. 1910)
*1884 &ndash; Harry S. Truman, 33rd Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1972)
*1899 &ndash; Friedrich Hayek, Austrick-born economist (d. 1992)
*1906 &ndash; Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (d. 1977)
*1916 &ndash; Joao Havelange, 7t Preses o FIFA (d. 2016)
*1926 &ndash; David Attenborough, Inglis naituralist an documentary filmmaker
*1926 &ndash; Don Rickles, American actor an comedian (d. 2017)
*1937 &ndash; Thomas Pynchon, American writer
*1944 &ndash; Gary Glitter, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
*1954 &ndash; John Michael Talbot,  American sangster-sangwriter an guitarist (Mason Proffit) 
*1955 &ndash; Meles Zenawi, Prime meenister o Ethiopie (d. 2012)
*1956 &ndash; David Provan, Scots fitbawer
*1957 &ndash; Marie Myriam, French sangster
*1958 &ndash; Roddy Doyle, Erse writer
*1960 &ndash; Franco Baresi, Italian fitbawer
*1960 &ndash; Maria Padilha, Brazilian actress
*1961 &ndash; Bill de Blasio, Mayor o New York Ceety
*1970 &ndash; Luis Enrique, Spaingie fitbawer
*1975 &ndash; Enrique Iglesias, Spaingie sangster-sangwriter, producer, an actor
*1980 &ndash; Michelle McManus, Scots sangster
*1981 &ndash; Andrea Barzagli, Italian fitbawer
*1984 &ndash; Martin Compston, Scots actor an umwhile fitbawer
*1988 &ndash; Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian fitbawer (d. 2014)

## Daiths

* 535 &ndash; Pape John II (b. 470)
* 685 &ndash; Pape Benedict II (b. 635)
* 1319 &ndash; Haakon V o Norawa (b. 1270)
* 1794 &ndash; Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (b. 1743)
* 1819 &ndash; Kamehameha I, King o Hawaii (b. 1758)
* 1842 &ndash; Jules Dumont d'Urville, French splorer (b. 1790)
* 1848 &ndash; George Young, Scots divine, scholart an geologist (b. 1777)
* 1867 &ndash; John Crawford Brown, Scots penter (b. 1805)
* 1873 &ndash; John Stuart Mill, Inglis philosopher (b. 1806)
* 1880 &ndash; Gustave Flaubert, French writer (b. 1821)
* 1887 &ndash; Thomas Stevenson, Scots lichthoose ingineer an meteorologist (b. 1818)
* 1903 &ndash; Paul Gauguin, French penter (b. 1848)
* 1904 &ndash; Eadweard Muybridge, Inglis fotografer (b. 1830)
* 1973 &ndash; Andy Cunningham, Scots fitbawer (b. 1890)
* 1988 &ndash; Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (b. 1907)
* 2012 &ndash; Maurice Sendak, American writer (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
* 2023 &ndash; Rita Lee, Brazilian sangster an multi-instrumentalist (b. 1947)

## Halidays
* Victory in Europe Day
* Internaitional Reid Cross an Reid Crescent Day