Right now is Friday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2025. There are 145 days left within the yr.
Right now in historical past:
On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon, dealing with damaging new revelations within the Watergate scandal, introduced he would resign the next day.
Additionally on this date:
In 1814, through the Battle of 1812, peace talks between the USA and Britain started in Ghent, Belgium.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the rest of his days in exile.
In 1876, Thomas Edison acquired a patent for his electrical pen—the forerunner of the mimeograph machine.
In 1908, Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers’ first public flying demonstration, at Le Mans racecourse in France.
In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure elevating the variety of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, efficient with the following Congress, with a proviso so as to add two extra when New Mexico and Arizona grew to become states.
In 1963, Britain’s “Nice Practice Theft” occurred as thieves made off with 2.6 million kilos in banknotes.
In 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan took the long-lasting picture of The Beatles that would seem on the duvet of their album “Abbey Street.”
In 1988, Chicago’s Wrigley Discipline hosted its first-ever evening baseball recreation; the competition between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies could be rained out within the fourth inning.
In 2000, the wreckage of the Accomplice submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking the Union ship Housatonic, was recovered off the South Carolina coast and returned to port.
In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s first Hispanic and third feminine justice.
In 2022, FBI brokers executed a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seashore, Florida; over 13,000 authorities paperwork, together with 103 labeled paperwork, had been seized.
In 2023, a sequence of wind-driven wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the city of Lahaina and killing greater than 100 folks.
Right now’s Birthdays:
- Actor Nita Talbot is 95.
- Actor Dustin Hoffman is 88.
- Actor Connie Stevens is 87.
- Actor Larry Wilcox is 78.
- Actor Keith Carradine is 76.
- Film director Martin Brest is 74.
- Radio-TV character Robin Quivers is 73.
- Percussionist Anton Fig is 72.
- Actor Donny Most is 72.
- Rock musician Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) is 68.
- TV character Deborah Norville is 67.
- Rock musician The Edge (U2) is 64.
- Rock musician Rikki Rockett (Poison) is 64.
- Rapper Kool Moe Dee is 63.
- Rock singer Scott Stapp is 52.
- Nation singer Mark Wills is 52.
- Actor Kohl Sudduth is 51.
- Rock musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) is 50.
- Singer JC Chasez (‘N Sync) is 49.
- Actor Tawny Cypress is 49.
- R&B singer Drew Lachey (lah-SHAY’) (98 Levels) is 49.
- R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius is 48.
- Actor Lindsay Sloane is 48.
- Actor Countess Vaughn is 47.
- Actor Michael Urie is 45.
- Tennis participant Roger Federer is 44.
- Actor Meagan Good is 44.
- Britain’s Princess Beatrice of York is 37.
- Actor Ken Baumann is 36.
- Pop singer Shawn Mendes is 27.