* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

* 1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa

It remained in Byzantine hands during the period of crisis in the 7th – 8th centuries, when most of the Balkans and the Greek mainland were overrun by Slavic invasions.

By the 8th – 7th century BC Assyrian cuneiform tablets mention the exploitation of the " copper of the mountains " and this may refer to " natural " brass.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

And there are several non-biblical historically and archaeologically attested details that can only be found in Chronicles, including the account of the Egyptian Shistak's campaign in the late 10th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 12: 2 – 4 ), and Hezekiah's preparing and safeguarding Jerusalem's water supply prior to the Assyrian attack in the late 8th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 32: 2-4 ).

During the first American League season in 1901, they finished last ( 8th place ) with a record of 48 – 89.

2 – 12: oracles about Judah and Jerusalem reflecting the late 8th century expansion of Assyria into the Kingdom of Judah

28 – 31: more oracles about the 8th century crisis

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

Centaurs are shown on a number of Pictish carved stones from north-east Scotland, erected in the 8th – 9th centuries AD ( e. g., at Meigle, Perthshire ).

* George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough ( 1844 – 1892 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke

* Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ), only son of the 8th Duke

* 1920 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.

Approximately 6000 graves dating from the Villanovan ( 9th & 8th centuries BC ) distributed in necropoleis, the main one being the Monterozzi hypogea of the 6th – 4th centuries BC.

The Church considers the first seven Ecumenical Councils ( held between the 4th and the 8th century ) to be the most important ; however, there have been more, specifically the Synods of Constantinople, 879 – 880, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1583, 1819, and 1872, the Synod of Iaşi ( Jassy ), 1642, and the Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672, all of which helped to define the Orthodox position.

* Imperial Princess Bokushi ( 穆子内親王 ) (?– 903 ), 8th Saiin in Kamo Shrine 882 – 887

* 1962 – Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, American politician and 8th Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

* 1833 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist and 8th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1910 )

Petroglyph s from Zavkhan Province, Mongolia, depicting Göktürks ( 6th – 8th century ).

Books used by the Hesychast include the Philokalia, a collection of texts on prayer and solitary mental ascesis written from the 4th to the 15th Centuries, this collection existing in a number of independent redactions ; the Ladder of Divine Ascent ; the collected works of St Symeon the New Theologian ( 949 – 1022 ); and the works of St Isaac the Syrian ( 7th C .?– 8th C .?

Old Japanese is the first attested written form of Japanese – the earliest text, the Kojiki, dates to the early 8th century AD ; the end of Old Japanese coincides with the end of the Nara period in 794.

In 2007 the Land Forces consisted of 29, 600 soldiers ( 6th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Grodno ), 11th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Slonim, the former 11th Guards Tank Division ) the 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Minsk ), 38th and 103rd Mobile Brigades ( organized similarly to Soviet airborne regiments, not all of them are equipped with BMD-1 ), 5th Separate Spetznaz Brigade ( Maryina Horka ), five artillery brigades and four regiments, two MRL regiments, 15th, 29th, 115th, 120th and 302nd SAM Brigades, two SSM brigades, two brigades and one regiment of engineers, 8th NBC independent brigade, two signals brigades, 40th independent NBC battalion.

Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century.

It has variously been dated to between the 8th and the early 11th centuries.

It flourished from the 8th to the 11th centuries.

In the Heian period ( 8th to 11th centuries ) sword-making developed through techniques brought over from China through trade in the early 10th century.

The designation " Mongol " briefly appeared in 8th century records of the Chinese Tang dynasty, describing a tribe of Shiwei, and resurfaced again in the late 11th century during the rule of Khitan.

Both the Sanhadja Confederation, at its height from the 8th to the 10th century, and the Almoravid Empire, from the 11th to the 12th century, were weakened by internecine warfare, and both succumbed to further invasions from the Ghana Empire and the Almohad Empire, respectively.

Beginning in the 8th century, as Charlemagne began to consolidate power over a large area of western Europe, scribes developed a minuscule script ( caroline minuscule ) that effectively became the standard script for manuscripts from the 9th to the 11th century.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th century structure on an 8th century site.

Romania has a developing, upper-middle income market economy, the 11th largest in the European Union by total nominal GDP and the 8th largest based on purchasing power parity.

While the letter Q in the 8th edition only listed the letter Q itself, the 11th edition also listed quantum satis, quenell, quilt and quisling.

From the 8th to the 11th century, the Vikings and Varangians traded as they sailed from and to Scandinavia.

The Viking Age was a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, spanning the late 8th to 11th centuries.

In the 300 years from the late 8th century, when contemporary chroniclers first commented on the appearance of Viking raiders, to the end of the 11th century, Scandinavia underwent profound cultural changes.

The evolution of these forms into a distinctive Islamic type was complete by the 11th century, having begun in the 8th or 9th century in works like the Mshatta Facade.

They are: Centro Storico ( 1st ); Pineta Zerbi, Tremulini and Eremo ( 2nd ); Santa Caterina, San Brunello and Vito ( 3rd ); Trabochetto, Condera and Spirito Santo ( 4th ); Rione Ferrovieri, Stadio and Gebbione ( 5th ); Sbarre ( 6th ); San Giorgio, Modena and San Sperato ( 7th ); Catona, Salice, Rosalì and Villa San Giuseppe ( 8th ); Gallico and Sambatello ( 9th ); Archi ( 10th ); Ortì, Podàrgoni and Terreti ( 11th ); Cannavò, Mosorrofa and Cataforio ( 12th ); Ravagnese, San Gregorio, Croce Valanidi and Trunca ( 13th ); Gallina ( 14th ); Pellaro and Bocale ( 15th ).

Other trade routes of the 8th – 11th centuries shown in orange ( note that Atil is the major commercial outpost from which trade extends into the far reaches of " Deep Asia ").

The present-day church was constructed mainly from the 8th century onward ; a monastery was added in the second half of the 11th century.

The arms were Quarterly of twelve, 1st, Or, a semé of hearts Gules, a lion rampant Azure ( Lüneburg ); 2nd, Gules, two lions passant guardant Or ( Brunswick ); 3rd, Azure, a lion rampant Argent crowned Or ( Eberstein ); 4th, Gules a lion rampant Or, within a border componé Argent and Azure ( Homburg ); 5th, Or, a lion rampant Gules crowned Azure ( Diepholz ); 6th, Gules, a lion rampant Or ( Lauterberg ); 7th, Per fess, in chief Or, two bears ' paws erect Sable ( Hoya ), in the base a gyronny, Argent and Azure ( Old Bruckhausen ); 8th, Azure, an eagle displayed Argent, langued, beaked and membered Gules ( Diepholz eagle ); 9th, Chequy Argent and Gules ( Hohnstein ); 10th, Argent, a stag's attire in bend Gules ( Regenstein ); 11th, Argent, a stag trippant Sable ( Klettenburg ); 12th, Argent, a stag's attire in bend sinister Sable ( Blankenburg ).< ref >

Most authors claim that the Cypriot city kingdoms, first described in written sources in the 8th century BC were already founded in the 11th century BC.

The Danish people were amongst those known as the Vikings during the 8th – 11th centuries.

Esagil-kin-apli's medical Diagnostic Handbook in the 11th century BC was based on a logical set of axioms and assumptions, while Babylonian astronomers in the 8th and 7th centuries BC employed an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems, an important contribution to the philosophy of science.

St Peter's in Edensor is also where the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Duke of Devonshire and their wives are buried.

The Old Clock Bells are the old 6th ( Abraham Rudhall II, 1725 ), the old 7th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ), the old 8th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ) and the old 11th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1717 ).