Today is Tuesday, August 8, the 220th day of 2017. There are 145 days left in the year.

1503 Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor. The Irish Confederate 1647 Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. Mont Blanc on the 1786 French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. 1863 American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt). 1876 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight. 1942 Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call for swaraj or complete independence. 1946 First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. 1963 The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. 1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. 1969 At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles’ album Abbey Road. 1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. 2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. 2008 A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people. 2008 The 2008 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad were opened in Beijing, China.