Right now is Thursday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2024. There are 145 days left within the 12 months.
Right now in historical past:
On Aug. 8, 2023, a sequence of wind-driven wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the city of Lahaina and killing greater than 100 folks.
Additionally on this date:
In 1814, throughout the Struggle of 1812, peace talks between the USA and Britain started in Ghent, Belgium.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the rest of his days in exile.
In 1876, Thomas Edison obtained a patent for his electrical pen—the forerunner of the mimeograph machine.
In 1908, Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers’ first public flying demonstration, at Le Mans racecourse in France.
In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure elevating the variety of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, efficient with the subsequent Congress, with a proviso so as to add two extra when New Mexico and Arizona grew to become states.
In 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” happened as thieves made off with 2.6 million kilos in banknotes.
In 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan took the enduring picture of The Beatles that would seem on the quilt of their album “Abbey Road.”
In 1974, President Richard Nixon, dealing with damaging new revelations within the Watergate scandal, introduced he would resign the next day.
In 1988, Chicago’s Wrigley Discipline hosted its first-ever night time baseball recreation; the competition between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies can be rained out within the fourth inning.
In 2000, the wreckage of the Accomplice submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking the Union ship Housatonic, was recovered off the South Carolina coast and returned to port.
In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s first Hispanic and third feminine justice.
In 2022, FBI brokers executed a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar al Lago in Palm Seashore, Florida; over 13,000 authorities paperwork, together with 103 categorized paperwork, had been seized.
Right now’s Birthdays:
- Actor Nita Talbot is 94.
- Actor Dustin Hoffman is 87.
- Actor Connie Stevens is 86.
- Nation singer Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) is 86.
- Actor Larry Wilcox is 77.
- Actor Keith Carradine is 75.
- Film director Martin Brest is 73.
- Radio-TV persona Robin Quivers is 72.
- U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin is 71.
- Percussionist Anton Fig is 71.
- Actor Donny Most is 71.
- Rock musician Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) is 67.
- TV persona Deborah Norville is 66.
- Rock musician The Edge (U2) is 63.
- Rock musician Rikki Rockett (Poison) is 63.
- Rapper Kool Moe Dee is 62.
- Center distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton is 56.
- Rock singer Scott Stapp is 51.
- Nation singer Mark Wills is 51.
- Actor Kohl Sudduth is 50.
- Rock musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) is 49.
- Singer JC Chasez (‘N Sync) is 48.
- Actor Tawny Cypress is 48.
- R&B singer Drew Lachey (lah-SHAY’) (98 Levels) is 48.
- R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius is 47.
- Actor Lindsay Sloane is 47.
- Actor Countess Vaughn is 46.
- Actor Michael Urie is 44.
- Tennis participant Roger Federer is 43.
- Actor Meagan Good is 43.
- Actor Jackie Cruz (TV: “Orange is the New Black”) is 40.
- Britain’s Princess Beatrice of York is 36.
- Actor Ken Baumann is 35.
- New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo is 35.
- Pop singer Shawn Mendes is 26.
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