On This Day in History — August 8

• 2016 — Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
• 2015 — Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
• 2013 — A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
• 2010 — China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
• 2009 — A tour helicopter and a private Piper aircraft collide over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S; all three people on the helicopter and all six aboard the Piper are killed, 40 blocks...
• 2008 — A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and...

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Notable Births on August 8

• 2000 — Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
• 1998 — Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1998 — Ronan Parke, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1991 — Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 — Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player

Notable Deaths on August 8

• 2017 — Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1936)
• 2015 — Christopher Marshall, English physician and biologist (b. 1948)
• 2015 — Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Sam S. Walker, American general (b. 1925)
• 2014 — Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2014 — Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941)

Public Holidays on August 9

• 🌍 National Day (Singapore)
• 🌍 National Women's Day (South Africa)

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On This Day in History — August 9

• 2014 — Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking...
• 2013 — Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
• 2006 — At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
• 1999 — Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• 1993 — The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
• 1991 — The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government’s case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.

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Notable Births on August 9

• 1999 — Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater
• 1991 — Alice Barlow, English actress
• 1991 — Alexa Bliss, American bodybuilder and wrestler
• 1990 — İshak Doğan, Turkish footballer
• 1990 — Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player
• 1990 — Brice Roger, French skier

Notable Deaths on August 9

• 2015 — Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1930)
• 2015 — John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Walter Nahún López, Honduran footballer (b. 1977)
• 2015 — David Nobbs, English author and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2015 — Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1915)
• 2015 — Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (b. 1926)