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Events

• 589 (1437 years ago) Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
• 1933 (93 years ago) Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
• 1970 (56 years ago) The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.
• 1978 (48 years ago) The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• 1980 (46 years ago) The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
• 1984 (42 years ago) The Soviet Union announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles, later joined by 14 other countries.
• 2021 (5 years ago) A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.

Births

• 1737 (289 years ago) Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (died 1794)
• 1828 (198 years ago) Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
• 1884 (142 years ago) Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (died 1972)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Fernandel, French actor and singer (died 1971)
• 1926 (100 years ago) David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
• 1937 (89 years ago) Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
• 1975 (51 years ago) Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

Deaths

• 535 (1491 years ago) Pope John II,
• 685 (1341 years ago) Pope Benedict II,
• 1794 (232 years ago) Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (born 1743)
• 1880 (146 years ago) Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (born 1821)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (born 1848)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (born 1880)
• 1988 (38 years ago) Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (born 1907)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (born 1953)

All 350 events, births and deaths of May 8