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8 august

2000,Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
1991, John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released.
1991, Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built
1990, Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1989, Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission
1988, The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games
1988, The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Myanmar.
1986, Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar ParkKarachi, announcement of establishing political movement MQM.
1976, Boston, by the rock band Boston is released. It will become the #1 best-selling debut album in history.
1974, Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
1966, The Beatles landmark album Revolver is released in the United States.
1962, Elizabeth Ann Duncan becomes the last woman to be executed in the United States prior to the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1977.
1947,Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
1945, World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
1929,The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1786,Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.