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==Events== *1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. *1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland. *1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven. *1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. *1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England. *1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. *1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. *1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal *1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. *1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution. *1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. *1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). *1863 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt). *1870 – The ''Republic of Ploiești'', a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. *1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. *1885 – More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. *1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. *1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). *1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens. *1929 – The German airship ''Graf Zeppelin'' begins a round-the-world flight. *1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. *1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence. *1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials. *1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. *1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo. *1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. * 1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. *1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. *1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album ''Abbey Road''. *1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. *1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. *1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland. *1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. *1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. *1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. *1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. *2000 – Confederate submarine ''H.L. Hunley'' is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. *2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. *2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others. * 2008 – Official ceremony of 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bird's Nest. *2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. *2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. *2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「August 8」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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