Historical Events In May - 08
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1876 On May - 08 truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
1877 The first Westminster Dog Show held on this day in history.
1877 1st Westminster Dog Show held on May - 08.
1878 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines on May - 08.
1879 George Selden files for first patent for a gasoline-driven automobile on this day in history.
1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile on this day in history.
1881 On this day in history henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1882 On May - 08 david Belasco's "La Belle Russe," premieres in NYC
1882 On this day in history philips C Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat
1884 On this day in history harry S Truman, later to become the 33rd president of the United States, is born near Lamar, MO
1884 On this day in history the birth of Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1884 Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953) on May - 08.
1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-meter jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, England on this day in history.
1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl on May - 08.
1885 On May - 08 pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
1886 On May - 08 atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)
1886 On this day in history atlanta pharmacist John Stith Pemberton invents the flavored syrup for Coca-Cola®
1886 On this day in history jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1886 Jef van Hoof, composer on May - 08.
1887 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar on May - 08.
1891 Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+ on May - 08.
1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies on this day in history.
1892 On this day in history ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1893 On May - 08 francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
1894 On May - 08 klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
1895 On May - 08 china cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1895 On May - 08 edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1896 On May - 08 yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
1897 22nd Preakness: T Thorpe aboard Paul Kauvar wins in 1:51¼ on this day in history.
1898 The first games of the Italian Football League are played on this day in history.
1899 On this day in history the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1899 On this day in history jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
1900 250 grave robbers shot to death on May - 08.
1900 On this day in history galveston TX, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
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