Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 8
- 1331 - Stefan Dušan declared himself King of Serbia
- 1636 - Harvard College was founded by a vote of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1900 - The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed about 8,000 people.
- 1941 - World War II: German forces began the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1978 - Iranian Revolution: Hundreds of demonstrators in Tehran were killed on Black Friday.
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