Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 8

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  Map of the transition from the Sui to the Tang Dynasty
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  Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
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  Michelangelo's David
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  The face of Michelangelo's David
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  A house tipped over by the 1900 Galveston hurricane

• 617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui dynasty army in the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
• 1504 – David (detail pictured), a marble sculpturebyMichelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: British and French forces and their respective Indian allies fought to a draw in the Battle of Lake George.
• 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 schooneronLake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
• 1900 – The Great Galveston Hurricane, one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, struck Galveston, Texas, US, killing at least 6,000 people.
• 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.
• 1954 – Eight nations signed an agreement to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a Southeast Asian version of NATO.
• 1966 – The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered on the NBC television network, launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford gave recently resigned President Richard Nixon a full and unconditional, but controversial, pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
• 1978 – Iranian Revolution: After the government of the Shah of Iran declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in TehranonBlack Friday.
• 1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and one of the longest accident investigations in aviation history.
• 2004 – The NASA spacecraft Genesis crash-landed in Utah after having successfully collected a sample of solar wind.

• Lynette Fromme appears on September 5, so Gerald Ford should not appear in the same year

September 8

• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
• 1831 – The Russian Empire brought the Polish November Uprising to an end when its troops captured Warsaw after a two-day assault.
• 1935 – US Senator Huey Long (pictured) was fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1941 – World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning a 28-month siege that would result in the deaths of over 1 million of the city's civilians from starvation, making it one of the most lethal battles in world history.
• 1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, hailing it as the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.