What happend on 8th August

07.08
09.08
2005

The Generation Sound Machine Experience a Hard/Psychedelic Rock band, broke up, after playing together for almost 5 years.

2000

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

1991

Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

1989

STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

1988

General Ne Win, ruler of Burma since 1962, suddenly resigns.

1978

Odie makes his first appearance in the cartoon strip Garfield

1977

The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed

1976

Boston, the self-titled debut album for the rock band Boston is released. It sells over 17 million copies and becomes the #1 best-selling debut album in history.

1974

Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).

1973

Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.