September 8 is the 251st day of the year(252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
NATIONAL AMPERSAND DAY
NATIONAL AMPERSAND DAY
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (traditional). Tradition celebrates the event as a liturgical feast in the General Roman Calendar and in most Anglican liturgical calendars on 8 September, nine months after the solemnity of her Immaculate Conception, celebrated on 8 December. The Qur'an states that the only children born without the "touch of Satan", were Mary and Jesus. ― Painting by Giotto.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in the United States, was founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass ― On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A powerful hurricane (Category 4) hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1935 – U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1941 – World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. The siege was finally lifted on January 27, 1944 after 872 days.
1943 – World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
1951 – The Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1974 – The Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open.
2012 – Jimmy Carter passes Herbert Hoover for longest retirement after leaving office. Hoover was retired for 11,553 days, and had held the record for over 54 years.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1918 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1998)
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove...) (d. 1980)
1938 – Adrian Cronauer, American sergeant and radio host (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
1946 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player (d. 2013)
1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Dr. Strangelove...) (d. 1980)
1938 – Adrian Cronauer, American sergeant and radio host (Good Morning, Vietnam!)
1946 – L. C. Greenwood, American football player (d. 2013)
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