Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 8
This is a list of selected September 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Michelangelo's David
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra; | refimprove |
| Victory Day in Malta; | unreferenced stub |
| 1331 – Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of Serbia. | needs more footnotes |
| 1514 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus. | refimprove section |
| 1888 – The inaugural season of The Football League in England, the oldest professional league competition in world football (soccer), began with twelve member clubs. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1923 – Twenty-three sailors died when nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground off the coast of California in the Honda Point Disaster. | unreferenced sections |
| 1951 – The Treaty of San Francisco | Featured on April 28, date when it came into force |
Eligible
- 1755 – French and Indian War: British and French forces and their respective Indian allies fought to a draw in the Battle of Lake George.
- 1900 – The Great Galveston Hurricane, one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, struck Galveston, Texas, US, killing at least 6,000 people.
- 1935 – Populist U.S. Senator Huey Long was fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1944 – World War II: Germany began launching V-2 rocket attacks against Paris and London.
- 1966 – The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on the NBC television network, launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave recently resigned President Richard Nixon a full and unconditional, but controversial, pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
September 8: International Literacy Day; Independence Day in the Republic of Macedonia (1991)
- 1504 – David (detail pictured), a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
- 1860 – The paddle steamer PS Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
- 1941 – World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning the Siege of Leningrad. Over 1 million of the city's civilians died from starvation before the siege ended on January 27, 1944, becoming one of the most lethal battles in world history.
- 1978 – Iranian Revolution: After the government of the Shah of Iran declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday.