History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com
Miguel Hidalgo 1753, Oscar Hammerstein 1847, Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States


Rick Nelson 1940, Peter Benchley 1940, Toni Tennille 1940 - Singer (The Captain and Tennille) 


1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen. 


1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson. 



1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola." 



1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. 












1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto. 


1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time. 


1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat". 


1984 - The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles. 


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. 


1986 - Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.