May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of the year.
NATIONAL HAVE A COKE DAY
NATIONAL HAVE A COKE DAY
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (change from qualitative to quantitative chemistry), who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (change from qualitative to quantitative chemistry), who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1846 – Mexican–American War ― The Battle of Palo Alto: U.S. General Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1942 – World War II ― The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet Armies (44th, 47th, and 51st) defending the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimea. The Red Army lost over 170,000 men killed or taken prisoner, and three armies (44th, 47th, and 51st) with twenty-one divisions. The operation was one of the battles immediately preceding the German summer offensive (Case Blue), and its successful conclusion enabled the Axis to end the siege of Sevastopol in the following months.
1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 – Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Captain Levy managed to send the Israelis a coded message requesting help. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Transport Minister Shimon Peres. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement (AIM) members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. Messner was also was the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) above sea level.
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox. The last naturally occurring case of smallpox (Variola minor) was diagnosed on 26 October 1977.
1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. 1500 U.S. communists had to be institutionalized for hysteria (not really).
1987 – The Loughgall ambush: The SAS (British Army's Special Air Service) kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
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1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (d. 1794)
1926 – David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (d. 1794)
1926 – David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
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