August 8
People born on this day are Leo.
- 2000
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
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A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps approximately 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat full of passengers.
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An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
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Space Shuttle program: STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on a mission to the International Space Station.
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The 29th modern summer Olympic Games take place in Beijing, China until August 24.
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A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil and Piper PA-32R collide over the Hudson River, killing nine people.
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China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
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Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
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An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
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Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
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2005Alysa Liu, American figure skater
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2000Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
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1999Xiaojun, Chinese singer
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1998Ryan Garcia, American boxer
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1998Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1997Panipak Wongpattanakit, Thai taekwondo athlete
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1996A'ja Wilson, American basketball player
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1995S.Coups, South Korean rapper and singer
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1994Cameron Payne, American basketball player
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1993Emilie Mehl, Norwegian politician
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1992Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
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1992Casey Cott, American actor
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