Chapter 8, is entitled `` On Magnetism '' and in it are included such remarks as, `` One has always been tempted to compare the magnetic forces with the electrical forces.

On 8 November 1576, midwife Bessie Dunlop, resident in Dalry, Scotland, was accused of sorcery and witchcraft.

On 8 November 1273, Andronikos II married Anne of Hungary ( 1260 – 1281 ), daughter of the king Stephen V of Hungary.

On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:

On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.

On November 8, they won 41 – 10 over the New England Patriots, ending a streak of 22 losses at cold-weather sites.

On May 8, after going 12 – 17 in 29 games, the Diamondbacks released manager Bob Melvin and hired A. J. Hinch.

On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

On June 8 he arrived in Miami, Florida with fellow hijacker Wail al-Shehri.

On November 8, 2011, voters in more than 100 Georgia cities and counties voted on a bill which would allow stores to sell alcohol on Sundays.

On November 8, 2005, MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment released a three-disc DVD compilation titled Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1.

On 8 September 1944, the Bulgarian army joined the Soviet Union in its war against Germany.

On February 8, 2010, Edward Sazonov, Physical Activity Innovations LLC, was awarded the title of Bluetooth Innovator of the Year for 2009.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

On 8 August the fleet's boats stormed Aboukir Island, which surrendered without a fight.

On January 8, 1982, just before the case was to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan authorized his Treasury and Justice Departments to ask that the BJU case be dropped and that the previous court decisions be vacated.

On 8 October 1908, just two days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, many men, some of them ranking Serbian ministers, officials and generals, held a meeting at City Hall in Belgrade.

On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.

On 8 July 1971 two rioters, Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie, were shot dead in the Bogside by soldiers in disputed circumstances.

On 8 May 2005, Bozizé gained yet a further victory when his coalition, Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, won 42 parliamentary seats in the legislative run-off vote.

On 8 April he became the first to prove the quadratic reciprocity law.

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

On 8 November 2008, at the AOPA Expo, CEO Jack Pelton indicated that Cessna sales of aircraft to individual buyers had fallen but piston and turboprop sales to business had not.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

* Albertus Magnus – De Adhaerendo Deo – On Cleaving to God

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

On January 18, 1999, the Falcons upset the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota in the NFC Championship Game, 30 – 27 in an epic overtime victory.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 – 61, coming close to European Cup victory in 1983 – 84 ( lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout ), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup for 1990 – 91 ( two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale ).

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

On top of the spray chamber is a burner head that produces a flame that is laterally long ( usually 5 – 10 cm ) and only a few mm deep.

* 1988: Best Gospel Performance, Female – Lead Me On

* 1989: Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year – Lead Me On

* 1989: Short Form Music Video of the Year – " Lead Me On "

* 2003: Song of the Year – " The River's Gonna Keep On Rolling "