** Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, ( who was eight months pregnant ), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at the home of Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski, in Los Angeles, California.

** In the Polish village of Markowa, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jews they were hiding.

** Gulf War: Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel.

** Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago.

** Syzygy: All eight planets align on the same side of the Sun ( see also Jupiter effect ).

** Beer is legalized in the United States, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.

** June 3 – after eight months of siege, the crusaders take Antioch.

** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.

In Devonian | Late Devonian vertebrate speciation, descendants of Pelagic zone | pelagic Sarcopterygii | lobe-finned fish – like Eusthenopteron – exhibited a sequence of adaptations: * Panderichthys, suited to muddy shallows ; * Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it up onto land ; * Tetrapod | Early tetrapods in weed-filled swamps, such as: ** Acanthostega which had feet with eight digits, ** Ichthyostega with limbs.

** Mexican Golden Trout, Oncorhynchus chrysogaster ( Includes as many as eight other species or sub-species, not yet formally named )

** Philopoemen, Greek general and statesman, strategos of the Achaean League on eight occasions and a major figure in the demise of Sparta as a Greek power ( b. 253 BC )

** Disks seven and eight are also 0, so they are stacked on top of it, on the left peg.

** Arethusa class cruiser ( 1912 ), eight light cruisers built in 1912 – 1914 that served in World War I

** Beasley Elementary opened in 1902, with eight students.

** Literally: fall seven times and stand up eight

** Dubii sermonis, in eight books

** 19th Bomb Group ( Heavy ) ( Headquarters, Clark Field, collectively, 4 B-17C, 15 B-17D, 10 B-18 ) The B-17s were distributed eight to a squadron, with three attached to the group headquarters squadron.

** The NIF fires its first bundle of eight beams achieving the highest ever energy laser pulse of 152. 8 kJ ( infrared ).

** During the court festivities in the winter of 1612 – 13, the King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespearean plays, four by Beaumont and Fletcher, and the lost Cardenio.

In Devonian | Late Devonian vertebrate speciation, descendants of Pelagic zone | pelagic lobe-finned fish — like Eusthenopteron — exhibited a sequence of adaptations: * Panderichthys, suited to muddy shallows ; * Tiktaalik with limb-like fins that could take it onto land ; * Early tetrapod s in weed-filled swamps, such as: ** Acanthostega, which had feet with eight digits, ** Ichthyostega with limbs.

** Support for eight independent stereo speaker channels

** The Majorcan system has eight stressed vowels, reduced to four in unstressed position.

** Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 by Michael O ' Brien

** Archimedes of Syracuse, Greek mathematician and scientist, who has calculated formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas and other plane and solid figures.

** Above two volumes republished, minus two letters, as Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1988.

** 2, 642 liquid gallons or 85 beer barrels or 63 oil barrels in U. S. customary units for liquid volumes

** 2, 270 dry gallons or 284 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 26, 417 liquid gallons or 852 beer barrels or 629 oil barrels in U. S. customary units for liquid volumes

** 22, 702 dry gallons or 2, 838 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 264, 172 liquid gallons or 8, 522 beer barrels or 6, 290 oil barrels in U. S. customary units for liquid volumes

** 227, 021 dry gallons or 28, 378 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** 2, 641, 721 liquid gallons or 85, 217 beer barrels or 62, 898 oil barrels in U. S. customary units for liquid volumes

** 2, 270, 207 dry gallons or 283, 776 bushels in U. S. customary units for dry volumes

** Joseph Balsamo ( Mémoires d ' un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846 – 1848 ) ( a. k. a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life )( Joseph Balsamo is about 1000 pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1.

** The History of England from the Accession of James II, volumes 1 – 3 at LibriVox. org

** Vol VII: Universal States ; Universal Churches ( Oxford University Press 1954 ) two volumes in paperback

** Principles of Biology ( 1864, 1867 ; revised and enlarged: 1898 ), in two volumes

** Principles of Psychology ( 1870, 1880 ), in two volumes

** Principles of Sociology, in three volumes

** The Principles of Ethics ( 1897 ), in two volumes

** József Teleki, The Age of the Hunyadis in Hungary ( in Hungarian ), Pest, 1852 – 1857 ; ( supplementary volumes by D. Csinki 1895 ).

** The principal authority for Louvois's life and times is Camille Rousset's Histoire de Louvois ( Paris, 1872 ), a great work founded on the 900 volumes of his despatches at the Depôt de la Guerre.

** The Complete McAuslan ( HarperCollins 2000 ) ( All the stories in the three volumes, with a new introduction.

** partitioning a RAID set to separate volumes / LUNs

** Volume 4: Die Mythologie der Griechen ( Two volumes, 1997 )

** Measure tissue volumes