1996

Birth of A'ja Wilson

A'ja Wilson, American basketball player

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A'ja Wilson

1997

Birth of Karim Walid

Karim Walid, Egyptian footballer

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Karim Walid

1997

Birth of Panipak Wongpattanakit

Panipak Wongpattanakit, Thai taekwondo athlete

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Panipak Wongpattanakit

1998

Birth of Ryan Garcia

Ryan Garcia is an American professional boxer. He is the current World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion. He previously held the WBC interim lightweight title in 2021.

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Ryan Garcia

1998

Birth of Shawn Mendes

Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

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Shawn Mendes

1999

Birth of Xiaojun

Xiao Dejun, known mononymously as Xiaojun, is a Chinese singer and actor based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group NCT and its sub-unit WayV.

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Xiaojun

2000

Birth of Félix Auger-Aliassime

Félix Auger-Aliassime is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 4 in singles achieved on 8 June 2026 and No. 60 in doubles achieved in November 2021 by the ATP. He is the current No. 1 singles player from Canada. He completed a set of all Grand Slam quarterfinals at the 2026 French Open, becoming the first Canadian player to do so.

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Félix Auger-Aliassime

2005

Birth of Alysa Liu

Alysa Liu is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and team events, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Challenger Series champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion.

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Alysa Liu

2007

2007 Brooklyn tornado

The 2007 Brooklyn tornado, an EF2 tornado, was the strongest tornado on record to strike New York City since documentation began in 1950. It formed in the early morning hours of August 8, 2007, skipping along an approximately 9 miles (14 km)-long path, from Staten Island across The Narrows to Brooklyn. The worst damage was in and around Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, in Brooklyn. The U.S. National Weather Service estimated its strength there as an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

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2007 Brooklyn tornado

2008

EuroCity

EuroCity (EC) is an international train category and brand for European inter-city trains that cross international borders and meet criteria covering comfort, speed, food service, and cleanliness. Each EC train is operated by more than one European Union or Swiss rail company, under a multilateral co-operative arrangement, and all EC trains link important European cities with each other.

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EuroCity

2008

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multi-sport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union. The games were the first and only Olympics held in Beijing with spectators, as the 2022 Winter Games were held without spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing became the first ever city to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

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2008 Summer Olympics

2009

Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil

The Airbus Helicopters H125 Écureuil, or Squirrel, is a single-engine light utility helicopter designed and originally manufactured by the French corporation Aérospatiale, later by Eurocopter, which became Airbus Helicopters. In North America, the H125 is marketed as the AStar. The AS355 Ecureuil 2 is a twin-engine variant, marketed in North America as the TwinStar.

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Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil

2010

2010 China floods

The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010. Three hundred and ninety-two people died, and a further 232 people were reported missing as of June 30, 2010, including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. Fifty-three of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3, and 266 deaths occurred between June 13 and June 29. Four hundred and twenty four people were killed by the end of June, including 42 from the Guizhou landslide; 277 more were killed and 147 were missing in the first two weeks of July, bringing the death toll as of August 5 to 1,072. A landslide in early August in Gansu killed at least 1,471 people and left 294 missing. In total, the flooding and landslides killed at least 3,185 people in China by August 31. More than 230 million people in 28 provinces, municipalities, and regions, especially the southern and central provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing Municipality, Gansu, Sichuan, and Guizhou, and the northeastern province of Jilin were affected, while at least 4.66 million people were evacuated because of the risk of flooding and landslides in the latter half of June. By early August, over 12 million people were evacuated, and that number rose to 15.2 million by August 31.

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2010 China floods

2013

August 2013 Quetta bombing

On 8 August 2013, a suicide attacker exploded a bomb at a funeral being held for a police officer in Quetta, Pakistan, and killed as many as thirty-seven people and injured over fifty people. No group has taken responsibility for the bombing, but it is believed that the Taliban were behind the bombing. A senior police officer, Fayaz Sumbal, noticed the suicide bomber before he blew himself up. As Fayaz began searching the suicide bomber's body, the bomber blew himself up. The bomber was wearing a jacket that had ball bearings and shrapnel inside.

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August 2013 Quetta bombing

2015

2015 Harris County shooting

On August 8, 2015, a mass shooting occurred inside a home in northern Harris County, Texas, near Houston. David Ray Conley III, 48, broke into his former home and held hostage Valerie and Dwayne Jackson, Sr., along with six children, including his own 13-year-old son. Over the course of nine hours, he shot and killed the entire family. He then engaged in a shootout with responding police before surrendering.

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2015 Harris County shooting