Historical Events on August 8

1588 naval battle between the English Fleet and Spanish Armada

1780 conflict with Shawnee Indians

1782 expedition, part of the American Revolutionary War

1829 in which the Russians seized the city from the Ottoman Empire

Dutch victory over the Belgian independentists (1831)

1843 treaty between Belgium and Nederlands

1861 battle in Mexico

Peace treaty of the 1919 Anglo-Afghan War

1944 battle in mainland China

Great Train Robbery — robbery of a Royal Mail train heading between Glasgow and London

Signing of ASEAN in 1967 in Bangkok to accelerate economic growth as its prime objective

Catastrophic series of floods due to failure of multiple dams in Henan, China

Significant earthquake in 1993 in Guam

2008 military engagement in Afghanistan

2008 battle in Algeria

2008 Russian invasion of Georgia

Letter bomb which blast in the Monterrey Tech

7.0 Mw earthquake which took place near Zhangzha Town on 8 August 2017

2017 UEFA Super Cup — football match

Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's tournament — 27th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament