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Historical Events for 8th May 2025
1907 - Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after beating Philadelphia Jack O'Brien on points in 20 rounds in Los Angeles, California
1959 - Little Caesars Pizza is founded by Mike Ilitch and his wife Marian Ilitch in Garden City, Michigan
1969 - Cambodia recognizes the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
1970 - Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State University shootings in Ohio
1973 - Wounded Knee Occupation ends after 10 weeks as 200 Oglala Lakota of the American Indian Movement surrender the South Dakota hamlet
1976 - The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
1988 - François Mitterrand elected President of France
2013 - 33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India
2018 - President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
2024 - New York has more millionaires than any other city in the world, one in 24, with 744 centi-millionaires worth more than 100 million and 60 billionaires according to new ranking
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