What Happened on Sep 8

Michelangelo's 'David' is Unveiled

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. The 5.17 meter (17 ft) marble statue portrays the... Read more

Gjuro Baglivi Is Born

Gjuro Baglivi, also Giorgio Baglivi, (September 8, 1668 in Ragusa – June 15, 1707 in Rome) was an ethnic Armenian from the Republic of Ragusa whose... Read more

Battle Of Lake George

The Battle of Lake George was fought on 8 September 1755, in the north of the Province of New York. The battle was part of a campaign by the... Read more

Kittanning Expedition

The Kittanning Expedition, also known as the Armstrong Expedition or the Battle of Kittanning was a raid during the French and Indian War that led... Read more

The Articles Of Capitultion Of Montreal Are Signed

The Articles of Capitulation of Montreal were agreed upon between the Governor General of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de... Read more

Battle of Eutaw Springs

The Battle of Eutaw Springs was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, the last engagement of the war in the Carolinas. On May 22, 1781,... Read more

Battle For Mexico City

The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City... Read more

Battle Of Molino Del Ray

The Battle of Molino del Rey was one of the bloodiest engagements of the Mexican-American War. On September 6, 1847, as the armistice and... Read more

SS Lady Elgin Sinks in Lake Michigan

The Lady Elgin was a luxury steamship that sank in Lake Michigan on the stormy night of September 8, 1860. Returning late from Chicago to Milwaukee... Read more

Second Battle of Sabine Pass

The Second Battle of Sabine Pass took place on September 8, 1863, and was the result of a Union expedition into Confederate-controlled Texas during... Read more

Annie Chapman Murdered in Spitalfields

Annie Chapman's Last Hours Shortly after midnight on the morning of her death, Chapman, like Mary Ann Nichols, found herself without money for... Read more

The Pledge of Allegiance is First Published in 'The Youth's Companion' Magazine

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist... Read more

Galveston Hurricane of 1900

The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on the city of Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas, on September 8, 1900. It had estimated winds of 135 miles... Read more

A Hurricane Hits The Gulf Of Mexico

On September 8, 1900, hurricane winds of at least 120 miles per hour ripped across the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, killing over 5000... Read more

The American Federation Of Labor Grants A Charter To Granite Quarry Workers

The American Federation of Labor granted a charter to the granite quarry workers of Barre, Vermont on September 8, 1903. To document the lives of... Read more

Louis Miller murdered at home.

LOUIS MILLER IS KILLED AT HOME Wednesday, September 9th, 1914 Louis M. Miller, a farmer and stock raiser living in the Bristle Ridge section... Read more

Honda Point Disaster

The Navy's greatest navigational tragedy took place in September 1923 at an isolated California coastal headland locally known as Honda Point.... Read more

Burning of the SS Morro Castle

The SS Morro Castle was a luxury cruise ship of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for runs between New York City and Havana, Cuba. The... Read more

Huey Long is Fatally Shot at the Louisiana State Capitol Building

Shortly after leaving the house chamber and paying a short visit to the governor's office, Huey Long was shot in a narrow corridor outside the... Read more

Siege of Warsaw (1939)

The 1939 Battle of Warsaw was fought between the Polish Warsaw Army (Armia Warszawa) garrisoned and entrenched in the capital of Poland (Warsaw)... Read more

Battle of Wola Cyrusowa

The first Polish units to reach the area, that is the Wołyńska Cavalry Bde and the 30th Infantry Division were ordered to secure the area in order... Read more

Battle of Gdynia

The German offensive isolated the Polish coast from the Polish mainland between 4 and 8 September, and Armia Pomorze was forced to retreat... Read more

Siege of Leningrad Begins

By September 8, 1941 German forces had largely surrounded the city, cutting off all supply routes to Leningrad and its suburbs. Unable to press... Read more

Joseph Stalin Reestablishes The Russian Orthodox Church

The catastrophic course of combat in the beginning of World War II forced Stalin to mobilize all the national resources for defense, including the... Read more

Declaration of Armistice Between Italy and Allied Forces

Today, it is announced that an armistice with Italy has been concluded. This was a great victory for the United Nations -- but it was also a... Read more