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September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining.

Events

1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia

1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.

1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.

1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century Belarusians and Poles defeat Russian army.

1522 - Captain Sebastian del Cano sails into port in Spain, completing the round-the-world voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan. With him is tourist Antonio Pigafetta, whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage.

1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).

1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.

1771 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.

1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.

1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.

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.

1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman is found.

1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.

1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.

1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.

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.

1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.

1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik was executed by the Nazis.

1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.

1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.

1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).

1966 - The first episode of the science fiction television series airs.

1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

1986 - General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, escapes attempted assasination.

1994 - A Boeing 737 carrying USAir Flight 427 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.

1995 - Timon and Pumbaa launches on all major television networks

1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season.

1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands as its parachute fails to open.