8th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1988
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Princess Beatrice, first child of the Duke and Duchess of York ."
• event
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "American aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright made his first public flight at a racecourse in Le Mans, France."
  • 1929
  • Germany
  • The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a 12-day round-the-world flight
  • 1949
  • Bhutan
  • Bhutan became independent from India
  • 1963
  • Great Britain
  • The Great Train Robbery when £2.6 million was stolen from the Glasgow-London mail train
  • 1983
  • Ireland
  • "Twenty-two members of the IRA were jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years in one of Northern Ireland’s biggest ‘supergrass’ mass trials."
• Death
  • 1637
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Ben Jonson, poet and playwright"
  • 1759
  • Germany
  • "Death of Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer of operas & sacred music"
  • 1827
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of George Canning, British Prime Minister"
  • 1996
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine" more