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Events on September 8

• 1156 At the Imperial Diet in Regensburg, Emperor Frederick I settles the long-running dispute over the Duchy of Bavaria. The Welf Henry the Lion receives Bavaria, and the Babenberg Henry II receives the Duchy of Austria split off from it. Nine days later, the charter Privilegium Minus is drawn up concerning this matter.
• 1504 Michelangelo presents the David statue, over 4 m high, in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
• 1888 Annie Chapman, the second victim of Jack the Ripper, is found in Whitechapel, London.
• 1926 Germany is unanimously admitted to the League of Nations.
• 1941 After the Wehrmacht's capture of Schlüsselburg, the Siege of Leningrad begins during the Second World War and will last until January 1944.
• 1955 Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrives in the Soviet Union on the first state visit by a German head of government after the Second World War
• 1961 Under the title Operation Stardust, issue 1 of the science fiction series Perry Rhodan is published.
• 1967 In Darmstadt, Federal Minister for Research Gerhard Stoltenberg opens the European Spaceflight Control Centre.
• 1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon, who resigned because of the Watergate affair.
• 1982 Wim Wenders' film The State of Things receives the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
• 2009 64 years after the end of the Second World War, the German Bundestag unanimously annuls all convictions for “war treason”.
• 2022 Elizabeth II dies at the age of 96. As a result, her eldest son Charles III becomes the new monarch of the United Kingdom.

Born on September 8

• 1857 Georg Michaelis, German jurist and politician
• 1893 Erik Reger, German writer
• 1901 Josef Eberle, German writer and publisher
• 1910 Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor, mime artist and director
• 1930 Mario Adorf, German-Italian actor
• 1941 Bernie Sanders, American politician, member of the House of Representatives and senator from Vermont
• 1962 Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• 1971 Martin Freeman, British actor
• 1980 Thomas Panke, German YouTuber and retailer
• 1992 Nino Niederreiter, Swiss ice hockey player

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

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