8 septembar
Sve neki ratovi, nesrece, kraljevi, fudbaleri, kompozitori, glumci ... Gde mi je pamet bila kad sam birao zanimanje.. Mogao sam recimo biti emperor od malih nogu... Tztztz
Events:
* 1331 - Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
* 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
* 1755 - French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
* 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
* 1831 - William IV was crowned King of Great Britain.
* 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
* 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
* 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
* 1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish," is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
* 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
* 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
* 1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
* 1970 - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
* 1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
* 1994 - A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
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Births
* 1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
* 1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
* 1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
* 1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
* 1824 - Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (d. 1908)
* 1841 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
* 1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
* 1857 - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
* 1873 - David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
* 1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
* 1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)
* 1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933)
* 1901 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)
* 1951 - Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
* 1954 - Mark Foley, American politician
* 1956 - Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
* 1957 - Heather Thomas, American actress
* 1959 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
* 1969 - Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
* 1969 - Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1969 - Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer
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Deaths
* 701 - Pope Sergius I
* 780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
* 1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
* 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
* 1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
* 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
* 1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
* 1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
* 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
* 1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
* 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
* 1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
* 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
* 1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
* 1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
* 1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
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