📜 This Day in History
August 8
- 685 BCSpring and Autumn period: Amid a succession dispute, the forces of Duke Zhuang of Lu, who was attempting to install a claimant to the Qi throne, were defeated at the Battle of Qianshi.
- 1914The Endurance departed Plymouth, England, on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
1956A mining disaster killed 262 workers, mainly Italian nationals, at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Belgium.- 1988Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.
- 1998The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, was raided by Taliban leading to the death of 10 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist.
- 2014The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.
