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  英语资源之历史上的8月8日

  August 8:Father's Day in Taiwan

  August 8 is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

  Events:

  870 – Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partitions the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.

  1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.

  1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey inEdinburgh, Scotland.

  1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.

  1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.

  1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.

  1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

  1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three...