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