What happend on 8th August

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09.08
1968

Jurō Wada, a doctor at the Sapporo Medical School, successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.

1967

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.

1963

Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.

1962

Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977. She and the two men she hired to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law in 1958 die in San Quentin's gas chamber.

1949

Bhutan becomes independent

1945

The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States, and that nation becomes the third to join the new international organization.

1945

World War II

1942

World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others cooperate and receive life imprisonment instead).

1938

The Mauthausen concentration camp opens.

1930

Betty Boop premieres in the animated film "Dizzy Dishes".