On this day: August 8

August 8: Father's Day in Taiwan

8th August, 1918 by Will Longstaff

• 1576 – The cornerstone of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's observatory Uraniborg was laid on the island of Hven.
• 1918 – The Battle of Amiens (pictured) began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.
• 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.
• 1988 – A series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots, which became known as the 8888 Uprising, began against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.
• 2010 – A massive mudslide of 1.8 million cubic metres (2,400,000 cu yd) of mud and rocks in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China, killed 1,471 people.

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