All Events

Historical Events on September 8

  • Warsaw

    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.

  • American Revolutionary War

    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.

  • American Civil War

    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.

  • New Jersey

    1934

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

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    1943

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

  • Cold War

    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.

  • Huntsville, Alabama

    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).

  • Republic of Macedonia

    1991

    The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

  • NASA

    2004

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

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