Top Historical Events That Happened on September 08

1936  Princess Juliana and German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged.   

1937  Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens   

1939  FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe   

1941  Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated.   

1941  Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins   

1943  Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II.   

1943  Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II   

1944  German V2 rockets strike London for the inaugural time.   

1944  The inaugural V-2 rocket lands in Britain.   

1944  1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp.   

1944  Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63.   

1945  US invades Japanese-held Korea   

1946  60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63).   

1947  British govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis   

1948  British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound.   

1949  Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85   

1951  Forty-nine countries sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco   

1951  Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)   

1951  Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed.   

1952  Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" published   

1952  72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)   

1953  "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs.   

1954  SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia.   

1955  John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69   

1956  Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks   

1956  Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84   

1957  Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV   

1962  Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84   

1963  Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys   

1965  Hurricane Betsy results in the deaths of 75 in Louisiana and Florida   

1965  Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood.   

1966  "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premiers on ABC-TV.   

1966  Star Trek makes its debut on NBC-TV   

1967  Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10   

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0801  Ansgar: German catholic archbishop   

0828  Ali al-hadi: Shia imam   

1157  Richard i: [richard the lion hearted], king of england (1189-99)   

1207  Sancho ii: King of portugal   

1271  Charles martel d'anjou: Son of charles ii of naples   

1380  Bernardinus of siena: Italian saint   

1474  Ludovico ariosto: Italy, poet (orlando furioso)   

1515  Alfonso salmeron: Spanish jesuit biblical scholar   

0394  Arbogast: French general, commits suicide   

0701  Death of Sergius i: Syrian/italian pope (687-701),   

0780  Leo iv de chazaar: Byzantine emperor (775-80),   

0876  Lodewijk de duitser: King of east french republic (833-76),   

1100  Clement iii: [wibert van ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100),   

1397  Thomas of woodstock: 1st duke of gloucester.   

1425  King charles iii of navarre: King charles iii of navarre (b. 1361)   

1539  Death of John stokesley: English churchman