Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 8

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This is a list of selected September 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.

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Map of the transition from the Sui to the Tang Dynasty
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
Michelangelo's David
The face of Michelangelo's David
A house tipped over by the 1900 Galveston hurricane
Severn Bridge
Flag of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Huey Long

Huey Long
Margaret Gorman
Queen Elizabeth II in 1959

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Blurb	Reason
International Literacy Day;	primary sources
Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra;	refimprove
Independence Day in North Macedonia (1991);	refimprove; NM: refimprove section
1331 – Stefan Dušan of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of Serbia.	unreferenced section
1504 – David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy.	refimprove section
1514 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus.	refimprove
1664 – Two days after having been ceded to England, New Amsterdam was renamed "New York" in honor of the Duke of York, in whose name it had been captured.	date not cited, refimprove section
1888 – The inaugural season of the Football League in England, the oldest professional league competition in world football (soccer), began with twelve member clubs.	unreferenced section
1923 – Twenty-three sailors died when nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground off the coast of California in the Honda Point disaster.	unreferenced section
1941 – World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning a 28-month siege that resulted in the deaths of over 1 million of the city's civilians from starvation, making it one of the most lethal battles in world history.	refimprove section
1944 – World War II: Germany began launching V-2 rocket attacks against Paris and London.	Featured on October 3, refimprove section
1951 – The Treaty of San Francisco	Featured on April 28, date when it came into force
1978 – Iranian Revolution: After Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday.	Unreferenced section on the actual massacre itself, which is also too short given that it's the main part of this article.
2004 – The NASA spacecraft Genesis crash-landed in Utah after having successfully collected a sample of solar wind.	refimprove section
Derek Taylor \|d\|1997\|	Too much uncited
Leni Riefenstahl \|d\|2003	unreferenced sections (Films)

Eligible

617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui army at the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the Chinese imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
1100 – Theodoric was elected by opponents of Pope Paschal II, following the death of Antipope Clement III.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States, was founded by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary, they were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy.
1831 – The Russian Empire suppressed the November Uprising in Poland with the capture of Warsaw after a two-day assault.
1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
1907 – Gertrude Stein meets her life partner and muse, Alice B. Toklas in Paris.
1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman (pictured) was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.
1936 – Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the Portuguese Navy ships NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and NRP Dão mutinied while anchored in the harbour of Lisbon.
1954 – Eight nations signed a collective-defense treaty in Manila to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (flag pictured), modelled on NATO.
1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. president Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
1991 – At the Tailhook Association symposium in Las Vegas, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviators were alleged to have sexually assaulted 90 persons.
1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board.
2022 – Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.
Born/died this day: | Seraphina Sforza |d|1478| Amy Robsart |d|1560| Ozias Humphry |b|1742| Anne Catherine Emmerich |b|1774| John Aitken |d|1831| Charles Hastings Judd |b|1835| Sabrina Sidney |d|1843| Inez Knight Allen |b|1876| Andrei Kirilenko |b|1906| Peter Sellers |b|1925| Patsy Cline |b|1932| Margaret Hodge |b|1944| Pink|b|1979| Leah LaBelle |b|1986| Jos Buttler |b|1990| Đỗ Hùng Dũng|b|1993|

September 8: Victory Day in Malta

PS Lady Elgin

1755 – French and Indian War: Despite being ambushed at the start of the Battle of Lake George, British colonial troops and their Mohawk allies were able to defeat French and Canadien troops and their Indian allies.
1775 – Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led an uprising that was quickly suppressed by the Order.
1860 – The paddle steamer Lady Elgin (pictured) was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
1935 – Huey Long, a U.S. senator, was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dying two days later.
1995 – Construction began on the Dhammakaya Cetiya, a giant stupa at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani, Thailand.

Leo IV the Khazar (d. 780)
Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (b. 1945)
Emi Shinohara (d. 2024)

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