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Events on August 8

• 1786 Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard become the first climbers to stand on the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps.
• 1869 At the instigation of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) is founded in Eisenach.
• 1918 On the “Black Day of the German Army,” the Allies succeed in breaking through the German front line in the Tank Battle of Amiens.
• 1924 The first electric Berlin S-Bahn begins operating.
• 1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins its circumnavigation of the world.
• 1962 The Germans Gebhard Weigele and Johann Sulzberger file the first patent for a washing system for motor vehicles. In this system, two brushes move around the car standing in a wash hall.
• 1963 In the “Great Train Robbery,” Bruce Reynolds, Ronald Biggs and at least 13 other men attack a mail train from Glasgow to London and rob 2.63 million GBP (equivalent to approximately 50 million euros today).
• 1969 The German Mineral Water Cooperative decides to introduce a new returnable bottle for mineral water, the so-called standard mineral water bottle designed by industrial designer Günter Kupetz.
• 1975 A fire breaks out in the Lüneburg Heath. Over the following days, it destroys more than 8,000 hectares of forest and several buildings and costs 7 people their lives.
• 1996 The American action film Mission: Impossible opens in German cinemas. It marks the beginning of an 8-part film series.
• 2006 The verdict in the case of Gustl Mollath, a victim of a miscarriage of justice, is handed down and commits him to a closed psychiatric ward.
• 2008 With Russia's intervention following the invasion of South Ossetia by Georgian troops, the Caucasus War begins.

Born on August 8

• 1881 Ewald von Kleist, German army officer
• 1900 Robert Siodmak, German film director
• 1901 Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear physicist, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel laureate
• 1940 Dennis Tito, American entrepreneur and first space tourist
• 1951 Louis van Gaal, Dutch football player and manager
• 1960 Ralf König, German comic artist
• 1961 The Edge, British-Irish guitarist (U2)
• 1972 Yvonne de Bark, German actress
• 1981 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 1991 Joel Matip, German-Cameroonian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „8. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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