Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 8

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 * 617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui army at the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the Chinese imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty (map pictured).
 * 1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary, they were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna.
 * 1755 – French and Indian War: Despite being ambushed at the start of the Battle of Lake George, British colonial troops and their Mohawk allies were able to defeat French and Canadien troops and their Indian allies.
 * 1775 – Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led an uprising, which was suppressed by the Order within a few hours.
 * 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy.
 * 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
 * 1860 – The paddle steamer PS Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
 * 1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
 * 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman (pictured) was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.
 * 1935 – U.S. senator Huey Long was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dying two days later.
 * 1936 – Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the Portuguese Navy ships NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and NRP Dão mutinied while anchored in the harbour of Lisbon.
 * 1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
 * 1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
 * 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
 * 1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board.
 * 1995 – Construction began on the Dhammakaya Cetiya, a giant stupa at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, began.
 * 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II died at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland and was succeeded by her son Charles III.
 * Born/died this day: | Amy Robsart |d|1560| Ozias Humphry |b|1742| Anne Catherine Emmerich |b|1774| John Aitken |d|1831| Sabrina Sidney |d|1843| Inez Knight Allen |b|1876| Andrei Kirilenko |b|1906| Maria Lassnig |b|1919| Peter Sellers |b|1925| Patsy Cline |b|1932| Margaret Hodge |b|1944| Ron "Pigpen" McKernan |b|1945| Jos Buttler |b|1990| Derek Taylor |d|1997| Elizabeth II |d|2022