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Day Of The Week: May 8
May 8, 2025 is the 128th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 237 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 8
- 413 –Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.
- 1821 –Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
- 1886 –Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
- 1912 –Paramount Pictures is founded.
- 1945 –Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
- 1963 –South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
- 1972 –Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
- 1978 –First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
- 1997 –A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
Who were born on May 8?
- 1842 –Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (d. 1909)
- 1899 –Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
- 1919 –Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1928 –Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (d. 2010)
- 1940 –Emilio Delgado, American actor
- 1944 –Gary Glitter, English singer
- 1961 –Janet McTeer, British actress
- 1964 –Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
- 1968 –Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician
- 1982 –Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Thai Muaythai kickboxer
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