September 8^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Paris attacked by Joan of Arc: 8 September 1429 - This Day in History

On this day in 1429, French heroine Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who believed she was acting under divine guidance, attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take Paris for the newly crowned King Charles VII.

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1945: At the end of World War II, the first U.S. troops entered the Korean peninsula south of the 38th parallel to receive the Japanese surrender; north of the parallel, Japanese troops surrendered to Soviet forces.

1781: American troops commanded by General Nathanael Greene defeated British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart in the Battle of Eutaw Springs during the American Revolution.

1664: As part of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the duke of York (later James II) took the city of New Amsterdam, whose name was changed to New York.

 

King Richard I: Biography of the Day

King Richard I

"No one will tell me the cause of my sorrow Why they have made me a prisoner here. Wherefore with dolour I now make my moan; Friends had I many but help have I none. Shameful it is that they leave me to ransom, To languish here two winters long."

Richard I, verse written during captivity

Richard I (the Lion-Heart), born this day in 1157, was known for his knightly manner and prowess in the Third Crusade; though he was a popular king and was revered as a hero, scholars would later view him less kindly.

 

Richard M. Nixon pardoned by President Gerald Ford: 8 September 1974 - This Day in History

The Watergate Scandal was first brought to public attention by the arrest of five men who, on June 17, 1972, broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate, an office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. It culminated in the resignation on August 8, 1974, of President Richard M. Nixon, whose administration was implicated in the burglary and its subsequent cover-up and who was ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to turn over the transcripts of taped conversations that clearly implicated him in the cover-up. On this day Nixon was granted an unconditional pardon by his successor, Gerald R. Ford.

More Events on this day:

1945: At the end of World War II, the first U.S. troops entered the Korean peninsula south of the 38th parallel to receive Japanese surrender; north of the parallel, Japanese troops surrendered to Soviet forces.

1781: American troops commanded by General Nathanael Greene defeated British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart in the Battle of Eutaw Springs during the American Revolution.

1664: As part of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the duke of York (later James II) took the city of New Amsterdam, whose name was changed to New York.

1429: Joan of Arc attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take Paris for the newly crowned king Charles VII.