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Notable anniversaries in history for today: September 8
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Wendell Ford; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Kentucky).
- 90th: 1934 - Ward Line's American luxury liner Morro Castle (11,500 tons) burns off New Jersey, killing 133-137 of 547 total passengers and crew. On September 7, Captain Robert R. Wilmott was found dead in his cabin of an apparent heart attack. The fire, which started in a locker, may have been started by wireless operator George White Rogers. The burned out hulk runs aground near the boardwalk of Asbury Park, New Jersey. 50 years earlier, the Daily Spray newspaper of Asbury Park suggested the city needed a shipwreck as a tourist attraction.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Peter Maxwell Davies in Manchester, England; composer (Prolation).
- 80th: 1944 - (1845 hours British) The first German A-4 (V-2) rocket hits London, England, landing on Staveley Road in Chiswick, killing three and injuring 20. The explosion creates a crater 10-20 feet deep and 40 feet across. The full name of the rocket is Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Revenge Weapon 2), named by Adolf Hitler.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Clayton Norcross; actor (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Colbys, Santa Barbara).
- 70th: 1954 - South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in South East Asia.
- 70th: 1954 - With a 3-2 count, Philadelphia Phillies' Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks.
- 50th: 1974 - US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Frank Lowson, English Test Cricketer 1951-1955 (born 1925).
- 30th: 1994 - USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport; there are no survivors.
- 25th: 1999 - The first of a series of Russian apartment bombings occurs. 22 fails.
- 20th: 2004 - In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970s appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Frank Thomas, American animator (Walt Disney Company) (born 1912).
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