Quick glance of 8 May in the pages of History

May 8: Here are the major events that occurred on  May….

• 8 May, 1660: English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
• 8 May, 1725: John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle.
• 8 May, 1815: Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony.
• 8 May, 1873: John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, philosopher died on this day.
• 8 May, 1821: Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia
• 8 May, 1886: Coca-Cola is made for the 1st time. According to legend, Dr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, produced the syrup in a brass pot in his backyard. It was first intended as a patent medicine. Today, Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most popular soft drinks and one of the most recognized trademarks.

• 8 May, 1899: Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)
• 8 May, 1901: British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
• 8 May, 1910: Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity.
• 8 May, 1916: Chinmayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual leader, was born
• 8 May, 1919: Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day
• 8 May, 1929: Girija Devi, Indian singer, was born

• 8 May, 1933: Mahatma Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
• 8 May, 1945: German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin
• 8 May, 1954: Indian Government decided to integrate Chandan Nagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.
• 8 May, 1959: Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
• 8 May, 1962: Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.

• 8 May, 1963: Centenary of Indian Red Cross was celebrated. Today is birthday of its founder
• 8 May, 1978: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climb Mount Everest without oxygen supply. Prior to the Italian and Austrian mountaineers’ ascent, it was thought to be impossible to conquer the world’s highest mountain without supplemental oxygen.
• 8 May, 1990: A 255 kmph cyclone lashes Andhra Pradesh coast causing heavy losses to life and property.
• 8 May, 1997: Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.

• 8 May, 1998: Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.
• 8 May, 2008: Dmitry Medvedev appoints Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister
• 8 May, 2014: World’s oldest astrolabe (mariner’s navigator tool) c. 1498 from Portuguese shipwreck of explorer Vasco da Gama found near Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman