Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 8

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 * 1821 – Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers.
 * 1924 – Lithuania signed the Klaipėda Convention, making the Klaipėda Region (taken from East Prussia) into an autonomous region under Lithuanian rule.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.
 * 1945 – A parade in Sétif, French Algeria, celebrating the end of World War II in Europe became a riot and was followed by reprisals, carried out by colonial authorities over the following weeks, that killed thousands.
 * 1950 – The Tollund Man (pictured), a naturally mummified corpse, was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.
 * 1957 – South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.
 * 1970 – Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City.
 * 1987 – A British Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit in Loughgall, Northern Ireland, killing eight IRA members and one civilian.
 * Born/died: | Edward Foxe |d|1538| Ali Bey al-Kabir |d|1773| Betsy Bakker-Nort |b|1874| Fern Hobbs |b|1883| Harry S. Truman |b|1884| Jacques Heim |b|1899| Friedrich Hayek |b|1899| Gordon McClymont |b|1920| Ethel D. Allen |b|1929| Jack Charlton |b|1935| Keith Lincoln |b|1939| Anthony Field |b|1963| Teresa Teng |d|1995| Soeman Hs |d|1999