User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/September 8

September 8

 * 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
 * 1449 - Tumu Crisis - Oirats capture the Chinese emperor.
 * 1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
 * 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.
 * 1923 - Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
 * 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia.
 * 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
 * 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, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.