Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 8
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This is a list of selected August 8 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1786 – Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat became the first people to climb Mont Blanc in the Alps, one of the highest mountains in Europe.
- 1870 – Liberal radicals in Ploieşti, Romania revolted against Romanian Domnitor Carol I, only to be arrested the next day.
- 1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph machine, a printing machine that was one of the forerunners to the photocopier.
- 1938 – The Holocaust: Construction of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-occupied Europe, began.
- 1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
- 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast (pictured), the tallest structure ever built at 646.38 m (2,121 ft), collapsed due to an error in exchanging the guys on the highest stock of the mast.
