What are the important events that happened on August 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 8: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 8 is the 220^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 26, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,754,611,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaicosagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 193 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,613 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 8 Historical Events

• 1605 –
  The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1786 –
  Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• 1793 –
  The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
• 1908 –
  Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
• 1918 –
  World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
• 1929 –
  The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1942 –
  Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence.
• 1960 –
  South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• 1988 –
  The “8888 Uprising” occurs in Burma.
• 2011 –
  London Riot 2011. This took place between 6th August 2011 and 10th August 2011. between the 6th and 7th a peaceful march in Tottenham, London was followed by rioting and looting, first in Tottenham.

Who were born on August 8?

• 1824 –
  Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1880)
• 1882 –
  Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
• 1908 –
  Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1990)
• 1911 –
  Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1921 –
  Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
• 1938 –
  Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
• 1949 –
  Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
• 1964 –
  Eddie Trunk, American radio show host and author
• 1970 –
  Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
• 1989 –
  Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian/Kazakhstani tennis player

Who died on August 8?

• 1827 –
  George Canning, British statesman (b. 1770)
• 1887 –
  Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
• 1897 –
  Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
• 1909 –
  Mary MacKillop, Australian Roman Catholic nun (b. 1842)
• 1944 –
  Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
• 1965 –
  Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
• 1969 –
  Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (b. 1896)
• 1984 –
  Ellen Raskin, American author (b. 1928)
• 1987 –
  Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
• 1992 –
  John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)