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: Mississippi River, foto taken in Iowa in 2016

1945: Victory in Europe Day

• 1541 – Hernando de Soto becomes the first-kent European tae reach the Mississippi River.
• 1788 – The French Pairlament is suspendit tae be replaced bi the creation o fowerty-seiven new coorts.
• 1794 – French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executit on the guillotine.
• 1819 – Kamehameha I, the first king o the unified Kinrick o Hawaii, dees.
• 1842 – The Versailles rail accident in Fraunce kills 50-200 fowk, incluidin splorer Jules Dumont d'Urville an his faimily.
• 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonatit beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• 1901 – The Australie Labor Pairty is foondit.
• 1902 – 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 – Warld War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombin raid on Nottingham an Derby.
• 1945 – Warld War II: Victory in Europe Day - combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, Fraunce, to an uncondeetional surrender.
• 1978 – Reinhold Messner an Peter Habeler reach the top o Munt Everest withoot oxygen supply.
• 1980 – The eradication o smaapox is endorsed bi the Warld Heal Organization.
• 1984 – The Soviet Union withdraws frae the 1984 Simmer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• 1984 – The River Thames Barrier opens.
• 1988 – François Mitterrand is re-electit Preses o Fraunce.
• 1995 – The Unitit Kinrick haulds a special Bank Halyday tae mairk the 50t anniversary o Victory in Europe Day.
• 2003 – 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 – A pouer-sharin agreement enters intae force in Northren Ireland, wi Ian Paisley as First Meenister an Martin McGuinness as his deputy.
• 2013 – Alex Ferguson propales his retirement as manager o Manchester United F.C..
• 2015 – 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 – US Preses Donald Trump pulls the Unitit States oot o the Iran nuclear agreement.
• 2019 – Elections are held in Sooth Africae; the African Naitional Congress unner Cyril Ramaphosa wins the maist votes, but wi a reduced percentage.

Births

Henry Dunant

David Attenborough

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

Daiths

Kamehameha I o Hawaii

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

Halidays

• Victory in Europe Day
• Internaitional Reid Cross an Reid Crescent Day