September 8 in History

Historical Events on September 8

1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.

1781 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass: On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

1934 Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.

1943 World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.

1945 Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

1960 In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).

1991 The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

2004 NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

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Famous Birthdays on September 8

1922 Lyndon LaRouche

1925 Peter Sellers

1941 Bernie Sanders

1990 Jos Buttler

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Famous Deaths on September 8

1949 Richard Strauss

2003 Leni Riefenstahl

2006 Peter Brock

2012 Thomas Szasz

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