EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
August 8
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Day 219 of 2026 | Week 32 | 140 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil and Piper PA-32R collide over the Hudson River, killing nine people.
A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Canadian 800m runner (Olympics 1984
American NFL guard/center (Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans)
American bassist and music label owner
American attorney
Australian surfer (World C'ship runner-up 1978
German politician
Dutch flautist
German race walker (Olympic silver 20k
Argentine actress known for "All About My Mother"
American news anchor (Today Show
American actor (Friday the 13th)
American alternative rock keyboardist and songwriter (10
Dutch actress and host (Sinterklaasjournaal)
American TV broadcaster and CEO (American Journal)
British pop-ska guitarist (Madness - "Our House"; "It Must Be Love")
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