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** Eighth seeded Villanova defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66 – 64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
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** Raymond Davis, " The Lives of the Eighth Century Popes " Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1992.
** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.
** Establishment of United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force, in Savannah, Georgia.
** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.
** 1270 – Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.
** 1270 – October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily ( Louis IX's brother ) and the sultan of Tunis.
** Various other minor dialogue changes throughout, mostly relating to the Eighth Doctor reflecting that he has missed Romana and K-9 since they left him and how much he enjoyed their company in the past.
** Fifteenth Day of the Eighth Moon ; this festival ( today simply called the Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival ), took place in mid autumn, and was designated as a three day vacation for government officials.
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** Final Round: The seeded team played against the winner of the First Round on a home-and-away basis.
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** France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships, becoming the first team to consecutively win the World Cup and European Championships.
** United States presidential election, 1964: Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
** The Ultimate Warrior defeats Hulk Hogan to win the WWF Championship in a Title for Title, winner takes all match at WrestleMania VI in front of nearly 68, 000 at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
** Steffi Graf defeats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the longest ever women's final at the French Open, to win her 19th Grand Slam title.
** Germany defeats the Czech Republic 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships.
** U. S. presidential election, 1996: Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".
** U. S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.
** United States presidential election, 1920: Republican Warren G. Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U. S. election in which women have the right to vote.
** U. S. presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles E. Hughes.
** Duke defeats Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball by the score of 72-65 to claim the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.
** Centre College's football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6 – 0 to break Harvard's five-year winning streak.
** Paced by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, the American League defeats the National League 6-4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.
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