Births on May 8

Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (d. 1811)

Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet (8 May 1735 – 15 October 1811) was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.

8 Jan

Ariodante
Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
11 Jul

Pluto
Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
5 Aug

John Peter Zenger
Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.