The 8t o September is the 251t day o the year (252t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 114 days bidin.
Events
1991 : Banner o North Macedonie
2004 : Genesis efter impact
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
Mario Adorf
Bernie Sanders
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
Halidays