Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 8

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 * 1264 – Reconquista: In the early stages of the Mudéjar revolt, Muslim rebels captured the alcázar of the city of Jerez in present-day Spain, holding it for about two months.
 * 1918 – The Battle of Amiens began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.
 * 1919 – The Third Anglo-Afghan War ended with the United Kingdom signing a treaty to recognise the independence of the Emirate of Afghanistan.
 * 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin (pictured) departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
 * 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest structure ever built at 646.38 m, collapsed due to an error in exchanging the guys on the highest stock of the mast.
 * 1956 – A mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals, at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium.
 * 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London (pictured), photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
 * 1988 – A series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots, which became known as the 8888 Uprising, began against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.
 * 1988 – Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.
 * 1991 – Hudson Volcano in Chile began to erupt, depositing volcanic ash over 150000 km2.
 * 2008 – A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derailed, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
 * 2009 – Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey.
 * 2010 – A massive mudslide in Zhouqu County in the Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 1,471 people.
 * 2014 – The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.


 * Born/died: | Seo Hui |d|998|Matteo Tafuri |b|1492| Christoph Ludwig Agricola |d|1724| Esther Hobart Morris |b|1814| Jean Leon Gerome Ferris |b|1863| Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield |b|1874| Sophia Duleep Singh |b|1876| Earle Page |b|1880| Ernest Lawrence |b|1901| James Tissot |d|1902|Esther Williams |b|1921 Elisabeth Abegg |d|1974