WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. AUGUST
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The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. (8. August 1940)

Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence. (8. August 1942)

First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle. (8. August 1946)

South Kasai secedes from the Congo. (8. August 1960)

Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. (8. August 1963)

The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. (8. August 1963)

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. (8. August 1967)

At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history. (8. August 1969)

Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. (8. August 1973)

President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. (8. August 1974)

The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland. (8. August 1980)

The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. (8. August 1988)

Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. (8. August 1989)

Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. (8. August 1990)

The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. (8. August 1991)

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. (8. August 2000)

An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. (8. August 2007)

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 8 people and injuring 64 others. (8. August 2008)

2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. (8. August 2010)

A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. (8. August 2013)