8th May What Happened Today In History?

What Happened Today In History?

Find out what happened on 8th May in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 8th May.

Famous Birthdays in History on this day:

• Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian philanthropist and a cardiac surgeon. Born in a family of Kinnigoli,in the erstwhile South Karnataka district, Karnataka. After completing his graduate degree in Medicine and post-graduate work in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, he trained in cardiac surgery at Guys Hospital in the United Kingdom.
• Shiny Wilson  (born May 8, 1965) is a retired Indian athlete. She has been a National Champion in 800 meters for 14 years. Shiny Abraham Wilson (Shiny Abraham) represented India more than 75 times in international competition. She holds the added distinction of representing Asia in four World Cups, She is also perhaps the only athlete to have taken part in six Asian Track.
• John Morrison Birch (May 8, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American military intelligence officer and a Baptist missionary in World War II who was shot by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China. Some politically conservative groups in the United States consider him to be a martyr and the first victim of the Cold War.

Death anniversaries on 8th May:

• John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. J. H. C. (Henry) Whitehead was the son of the Right Rev. Henry Whitehead, Bishop of Madras, who had studied mathematics at Oxford.
• Zia Fariduddin Dagar (born 1932) is an Indian classical vocalist in the Dhrupad, the oldest existing form of north Indian classical music (Hindustani classical music) and part of the Dagar family of musicians. He taught at the Dhrupad Kendra, Bhopal, along with his elder brother, Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar for 25 years.

Notable Events:

•  1725 John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle.
• 1815 Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony.
•  1901 British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.

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