What is May 8?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[413]] &ndash; Emperor [[Honorius]] signs an edict providing [[tax]] relief for the [[province]]s [[Tuscany|Tuscia]], [[Campania]], Picenum, Samnium, [[Apulia]], Lucania and [[Calabria]], which were plundered by the [[Visigoths]]. * [[1541]] &ndash; [[Hernando de Soto]] reaches the [[Mississippi River]]. * [[1654]] &ndash; The [[Peace]] of [[Westminster]] ends the [[First Anglo-Dutch War]]. * [[1781]] &ndash; [[Battle of Pensacola]] in [[Florida]]: Spanish troops reconquer Pensacola. * [[1788]] &ndash; The [[France|French]] [[parliament]] is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty–seven new [[court]]s. * [[1794]] &ndash; French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]] is executed on the [[guillotine]]. * [[1821]] &ndash; [[Greek War of Independence]]: The [[Greece|Greeks]] defeat the [[Turkey|Turks]] at the [[Battle of Gravia Inn]]. * [[1842]] &ndash; French explorer [[Jules Dumont D'Urville]] and his family, are among those killed in a major train crash. * [[1842]] &ndash; The Great [[Fire]] of [[Hamburg]] is brought under control. It had killed 51 people and made 20,000 homeless. * [[1846]] &ndash; [[Mexican-American War]]: [[Battle of Palo Alto]] – [[Zachary Taylor]] defeats a [[Mexico|Mexican]] force north of the [[Rio Grande]] in the first major [[battle]] of the [[war]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Richmond, Virginia]] is declared capital city of the [[Confederate States of America]]. * [[1886]] &ndash; [[John Pemberton]] creates the drink that is now known as [[Coca-Cola]]. * [[1898]] &ndash; The Italian football league is held for the first time; all in one day. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1901]] &ndash; The [[Australian Labor Party]] is founded. * [[1902]] &ndash; The [[Volcano]] Mt. Pelée erupts on the [[Caribbean]] Island of [[Martinique]], killing 30,000 people. * [[1912]] &ndash; [[Paramount Pictures]] is founded. * [[1919]] &ndash; [[Edward George Honey]] proposes the idea of a Moment of [[Silence]] to commemorate the [[Worl