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Events on the 8th of May in history

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08 May 0413 Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
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08 May 0453 Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
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08 May 0535 John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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08 May 0589 Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.
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08 May 0685 St. Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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08 May 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
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08 May 1516 Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
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08 May 1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
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08 May 1541 Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
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08 May 1541 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
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08 May 1639 William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island
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08 May 1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
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08 May 1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
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08 May 1741 France and Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
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08 May 1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
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08 May 1788 The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
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08 May 1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Washington
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08 May 1792 US establishes military draft
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08 May 1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
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08 May 1821 Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
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08 May 1823 "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
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08 May 1834 Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
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08 May 1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
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08 May 1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
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08 May 1842 A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
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08 May 1846 Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
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08 May 1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
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08 May 1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
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08 May 1861 Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
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08 May 1861 American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
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08 May 1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell, Virginia
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08 May 1864 Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
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08 May 1864 Battle of Antietam, VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
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08 May 1866 Australian Rules Football is created
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08 May 1871 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
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08 May 1877 1st Westminster Dog Show held
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08 May 1877 At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
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08 May 1878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
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08 May 1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
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08 May 1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
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08 May 1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
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08 May 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
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08 May 1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
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08 May 1898 The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
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08 May 1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
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08 May 1900 250 grave robbers shot to death
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08 May 1900 Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
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08 May 1900 John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals
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08 May 1901 In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4
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08 May 1901 The Australian Labour Party is established.
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08 May 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.
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08 May 1906 Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield and hits 2 HRs
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08 May 1909 Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
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08 May 1909 Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
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08 May 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded.
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08 May 1915 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
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08 May 1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
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08 May 1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
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08 May 1919 Appingedam soccer team forms
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08 May 1919 Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
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08 May 1920 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
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08 May 1921 Sweden abolished capital punishment
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08 May 1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
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08 May 1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
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08 May 1924 The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
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08 May 1925 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59
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08 May 1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
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08 May 1926 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
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08 May 1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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08 May 1926 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
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08 May 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.
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08 May 1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
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08 May 1931 Operette "Land of Smiles, " premieres in London
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08 May 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
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08 May 1935 Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th beat Phils 15-4
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08 May 1936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track
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08 May 1937 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
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08 May 1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
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08 May 1941 The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
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08 May 1942 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund
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08 May 1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
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08 May 1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
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08 May 1942 World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
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08 May 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
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08 May 1943 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
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08 May 1943 Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
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08 May 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
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08 May 1944 U-575 sinks Asphodel
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08 May 1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
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08 May 1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
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08 May 1945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
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08 May 1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe
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08 May 1945 The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
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08 May 1945 End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
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08 May 1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
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08 May 1945 Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
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08 May 1946 Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
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08 May 1946 Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
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08 May 1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
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08 May 1948 Bradman scores 146 Aust vs. Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours
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08 May 1949 West German constitution approved
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08 May 1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
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08 May 1952 "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
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08 May 1952 "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
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08 May 1952 Mad Magazine debuts
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08 May 1953 WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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08 May 1956 John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger, " premieres in London
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08 May 1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
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08 May 1958 VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
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08 May 1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
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08 May 1960 USSR and Cuba resume diplomatic relations
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08 May 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
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08 May 1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport, Texas
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08 May 1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
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08 May 1962 "Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 performances
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08 May 1962 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
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08 May 1962 London trolley buses go out of service
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08 May 1962 The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
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08 May 1963 "Dr No" premieres in US
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08 May 1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
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08 May 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.
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08 May 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
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08 May 1966 Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Cardinals lose 10-5 to San Francisco
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08 May 1966 A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
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08 May 1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
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08 May 1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
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08 May 1968 Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs. Twins (4-0)
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08 May 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
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08 May 1969 Cambodia recognizes German DR
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08 May 1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
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08 May 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" album
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08 May 1970 NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
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08 May 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.
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08 May 1971 "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances
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08 May 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden
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08 May 1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
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08 May 1972 Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
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08 May 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.
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08 May 1973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
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08 May 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
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08 May 1974 50 mph speed limit in Britain lifted
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08 May 1974 Canada government of Trudeau falls
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08 May 1974 FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
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08 May 1976 "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 7 performances
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08 May 1976 The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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08 May 1977 David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
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08 May 1977 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
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08 May 1978 ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
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08 May 1978 The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
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08 May 1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
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08 May 1980 Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
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08 May 1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
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08 May 1980 The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
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08 May 1981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
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08 May 1982 Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT) - Stanley Cup - Isles hold 1-0 lead
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08 May 1983 Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
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08 May 1984 Minn Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles
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08 May 1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
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08 May 1984 USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
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08 May 1984 The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
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08 May 1984 Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
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08 May 1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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08 May 1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win
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08 May 1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
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08 May 1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
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08 May 1988 "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances
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08 May 1988 Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils
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08 May 1988 Francois Mitterrand elected President of France
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08 May 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
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08 May 1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City
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08 May 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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08 May 1989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" and"Ferry Cross the Mersey"
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08 May 1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
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08 May 1990 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
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08 May 1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns
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08 May 1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes NYC subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
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08 May 1993 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
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08 May 1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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08 May 1994 "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 performances
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08 May 1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
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08 May 1994 Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game
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08 May 1994 Jose Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica
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08 May 1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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08 May 1994 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
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08 May 1996 New York Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st AL game beating Tigers 10-3
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08 May 1997 Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
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08 May 1997 A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
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