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The 8t o August is the 220t day o the year (221st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 145 days tae come.

Events

117 - Roman Emperor Trajan dees and is succeeded by Hadrian.
1503 - James IV o Scotland mairies Margaret Tudor.
1605 - The ceety o Oulu, Finland, is foondit.
1786 - Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, is successfully climbed for the first time.
1827 - George Canning dees, endin the shortest premiership in Breetish histerie (less nor fower month). Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscoont Goderich succeeds him.
1900 - The first Davis Cup tennis toornament stairts in Brookline, Massachusetts.
1942 - The "Quit Indie" muivement stairts in response tae Mahatma Gandhi's call for unthirldom.
1945 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1967 - ASEAN is foondit bi Thailand, Indonesie, Malaysie, Singapore an the Philippines.
1974 - US Preses Richard Nixon propales his intention tae demit the next day after the Watergate scandal.
1975 - 62 dams break in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, killin an estimatit 231,000 fowk.
1988 - The 8888 Uprisin stairts in Burma.
1990 - Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein annexes Kuwait.
1991 - Ane o the tallest-ever structures, the Konstantynow Radio Mast in Poland, collapses.
1994 - Prime meenister o Israel Yitzhak Rabin visits Jordan.
1997 - The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar is inauguratit.
2008 - The 2008 Simmer Olympics in Beijing begin at 8:08pm local time.
2010 - A landslide in Zhungqu Coonty, Gansu province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 1,400 fowk.
2013 - A suicide bombin in Quetta, Pakistan, kills 31 fowk.
2016 - Japanese Emperor Akihito indicates his possible intention tae abdicate.
2016 - A terrorist attack in Quetta, Pakistan, kills at least 70 fowk.
2017 - US Preses Donald Trump threatens North Korea wi "Fire an Fury" ower its nuclear testin, durin a staund-aff atween the twa kintras.