Year 1755
French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
SEPTEMBER 8
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8 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 8 September.
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Year 1756
French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
Year 1831
William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Year 1886
Thousands flock to Witwatersrand in South Africa as public gold-digging was permitted.
Year 1888
The first English Football league matches were played.
Year 1943
Italy surrendered to Allies.
Year 1944
A new German terror weapon V-2 Rocket struck at London.
Year 1962
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
Year 1962
The Chinese army infiltrated the north-east border of India, crossing the McMahon line (Tibet-India boundary).
Year 1966
The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, “The Man Trap”.
Year 1990
Northern and Southern Korean delegates met on the border for the first talk in 45 years.
Year 2000
Cable Television Network (Regulation) Amendment Bill was passed in the parliament of India, banning advertisements of alcoholic beverages and tobacco.
Born 1157
Richard I, King of England known as “the Lion Heart” who began to crusade in 1190 which ended in the signing of three years peace treaty with Muslim leader Saladin.
Born 1846
Sir Catchick Paul Chater, a prominent British-Indian businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong.
Born 1901
Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister. He instituted the country’s policy of apartheid and was stabbed to death two days before his 65th birthday.
Born 1925
Peter Seller, an English actor. Best known for his comic roles, particularly as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series of films.
Born 1926
Bhupen Hajarika, Indian singer, and musician.
Born 1927
Robert L. Rock, American soldier and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (d. 2013)
Born 1933
Asha Bhosle, Indian film playback singer who has recorded songs for more than a thousand movies.
Born 1979
Pink, an American singer and songwrite
Died 1933
Faisal I, King of Iraq.
Died 1960
Feroze Gandhi, an Indian freedom fighter, politician, and journalist. He published the newspapers The National Herald and The Navjivan. He was a husband of Indira Gandhi.
Died 1965
Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers.
Died 1970
Percy Spencer, American inventor, engineer, and scientist best remembered as the co-inventor of the microwave oven.
Died 1980
Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. An American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process that revolutionized archaeology and paleontology.
Died 1981
Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He was the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson.
Died 1981
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
Died 1982
Sheikh Abdullah, Indian politician, and former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir.
Died 1985
John Franklin Enders, American virologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Called “The Father of Modern Vaccines”.