{"id":23010,"date":"2023-08-08T02:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23010"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:52:28","slug":"history-of-8-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-8-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 8 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; John McCarthy, a British TV producer, was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years. A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to kill him if any more hostages were released.<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; The U.N. Security Council approved North and South Korea for membership.<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 &#8211; The &#8220;Dream Team&#8221; clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; The first road link between Israel and Jordan opened.<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 &#8211; Representatives from China and Taiwan signed a cooperation agreement.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; Saddam Hussein&#8217;s two eldest daughters, their husbands, and several senior army officers defected.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; Wade Boggs (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) got his 3,000th hit of his major league baseball career.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; The submarine\u00a0<em>H.L. Hunley<\/em>\u00a0was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the\u00a0<em>U.S.S. Housatonic<\/em>\u00a0in 1864. The\u00a0<em>Hunley<\/em>\u00a0was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.<\/li>\r\n<li>2007\u00a0\u2013 An EF2\u00a0tornado\u00a0touches down in\u00a0Kings County\u00a0and\u00a0Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.<\/li>\r\n<li>2008\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0EuroCity\u00a0express train en route from\u00a0Krak\u00f3w, Poland to\u00a0Prague, Czech Republic\u00a0strikes a part of a motorway bridge\u00a0that had fallen onto the railroad track near\u00a0Stud\u00e9nka\u00a0railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.<\/li>\r\n<li>2010\u00a0\u2013\u00a0China Floods:\u00a0A mudslide\u00a0in\u00a0Zhugqu County,\u00a0Gansu,\u00a0China, kills more than 1,400 people.<\/li>\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0suicide bombing\u00a0at a funeral in the\u00a0Pakistani\u00a0city of\u00a0Quetta\u00a0kills at least 31 people.<\/li>\r\n<li>2015\u00a0\u2013 Eight people are killed in a\u00a0shooting in Harris County, Texas.<\/li>\r\n<li>2016\u00a0\u2013 Terrorists\u00a0attack\u00a0a government hospital in\u00a0Quetta, Pakistan\u00a0with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Meagan Good, American actress and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David Florence, English canoe racer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Ross Ohlendorf, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Guy Burnet, English actor and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Willie Tonga, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Norbert Michelisz, Hungarian racing driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Martrez Milner, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Toby Flood, English rugby player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Ryan Koolwijk, Dutch footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0James Morgan, Welsh actor and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Brett Ratliff, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Anita W\u0142odarczyk, Polish track and field athlete<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Pierre Gar\u00e7on, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Chris Pressley, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pierre Boulanger, French actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Tatjana Malek, German tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Princess Beatrice of York<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Rinku Singh, Indian baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ken Baumann, American actor and author<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer<\/li>\r\n<li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Prajakta Mali, Indian actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Vladim\u00edr Darida, Czech footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Parker Kligerman, American race car driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990 \u2013\u00a0Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0N\u00e9lson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 \u2013\u00a0Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Josip Drmi\u0107, Swiss footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1998\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 \u2013\u00a0Ronan Parke, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>2000\u00a0\u2013\u00a0F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia. 1991 &#8211; John McCarthy, a British TV producer, was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years. A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to kill him if any more hostages were released. 1991 &#8211; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5Z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24339,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions\/24339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}