On August 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

A beauty contest held every year in America since 1973 has a unique feature – every contestant is a crab! It’s the Miss Crustacean Hermit Crab Beauty Pageant.

On August 8, 1988, the Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field.

On August 8, 1988, hip hop group N.

On August 8, 1986, actor, writer and director Spike Lee’s first feature-length movie, She’s Gotta Have It, opens in theaters around the United States.

On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers the following day into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.

President Harry S. Truman signs the United Nations Charter, and the United States becomes the first nation to complete the ratification process and join the new international organization.

During World War II, six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure are executed by the United States for spying.

On August 8, 1918, the Allies launch a series of offensive operations against German positions on the Western Front during World War I with a punishing attack at Amiens, on the Somme River in northwestern France.

Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and Indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, is born in Anenecuilco, Mexico.