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Events

• 1588 (438 years ago) Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
• 1870 (156 years ago) The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
• 1967 (59 years ago) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
• 1988 (38 years ago) The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
• 2013 (13 years ago) A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
• 2022 (4 years ago) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.

Births

• 1879 (147 years ago) Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician (died 1919)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Dustin Hoffman, American actor and director
• 1951 (75 years ago) Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian engineer, academic, and politician, 5th President of Egypt (died 2019)
• 1964 (62 years ago) Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1966 (60 years ago) Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
• 1981 (45 years ago) Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

Deaths

• 117 (1909 years ago) Trajan, Roman emperor (born 53)
• 1827 (199 years ago) George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
• 1897 (129 years ago) Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (born 1818)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Eugène Boudin, French painter (born 1824)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
• 2010 (16 years ago) Patricia Neal, American actress (born 1926)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Karen Black, American actress (born 1939)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1948)

All 432 events, births and deaths of August 8