September 8

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining.

Events:

• 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo, Russians stops Mongol advance
• 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress, Mongolians capture Chinese emperor.
• 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida establishes
• 1565 - Knights of Malta lift Turkish siege of Malta
• 1636 - Harvard College founds
• 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to Britain
• 1771 - California's Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is established
• 1796 - Battle of Bassano[?] - French beat Austrians
• 1941 - Siege of Leningrad[?] begins
• 1943 - Italy agrees to an armistice in World War II
• 1945 - United States troops arrive to partition South Korea
• 1951 - Signing of the Treaty of San Francisco.
• 1954 - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established
• 1974 - President Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon
• 1998 - St. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris[?]'s single-season home run record

Births:

• 1157 - King Richard I of England (+ 1199)
• 1841 - Antonin Dvorak, composer (+ 1904)
• 1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet (+ 1967)
• 1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft[?], Senator from Ohio (+ 1953)
• 1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, county music[?] singer, composer (+ 1933)
• 1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault[?], actor, director (+ 1994)

• 1922 - Sid Caesar, comedian
• 1925 - Peter Sellers, actor (+ 1980)
• 1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky[?], Premier of South Vietnam
• 1932 - Patsy Cline, country music singer
• 1937 - Virna Lisi[?], actress (+ 1963)
• 1938 - Sam Nunn[?], Senator from Georgia
• 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, musician (the Grateful Dead)
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
• 1947 - Ann Beattie[?], writer
• 1960 - Aimee Mann[?], musician
• 1979 - Pink[?] (Alecia Moore), singer
• 1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas[?], actor

Deaths:

• 1637 - Robert Fludd
• 1933 - Faysal I, king of Iraq
• 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress
• 1969 - Bud Collyer[?], television game show host
• 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, buddhist and writer
• 1977 - Zero Mostel[?], actor
• 1979 - Jean Seberg, actress
• 1981 - Roy Wilkins[?], civil rights activist

Holidays:

• Mare de Deu de Meritxell - National day of Andorra
  • Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í Calendar

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December