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This is a list of selected September 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
International Literacy Day; primary sources
Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra; refimprove
Independence Day in North Macedonia (1991); refimprove; NM: refimprove section
1331Stefan Dušan of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of Serbia. unreferenced section
1504David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy. refimprove section
1514Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus. refimprove
1664 – Two days after having been ceded to England, New Amsterdam was renamed "New York" in honor of the Duke of York, in whose name it had been captured. date not cited, refimprove section
1888 – The inaugural season of the Football League in England, the oldest professional league competition in world football (soccer), began with twelve member clubs. unreferenced section
1923 – Twenty-three sailors died when nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground off the coast of California in the Honda Point disaster. unreferenced section
1941World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning a 28-month siege that resulted in the deaths of over 1 million of the city's civilians from starvation, making it one of the most lethal battles in world history. refimprove section
1944World War II: Germany began launching V-2 rocket attacks against Paris and London. Featured on October 3, refimprove section
1951 – The Treaty of San Francisco Featured on April 28, date when it came into force
1978Iranian Revolution: After Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday. Unreferenced section on the actual massacre itself, which is also too short given that it's the main part of this article.
2004 – The NASA spacecraft Genesis crash-landed in Utah after having successfully collected a sample of solar wind. refimprove section
Leni Riefenstahl |d|2003 unreferenced sections (Films)

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September 8: Victory Day in Malta

Queen Elizabeth II in 1959
Queen Elizabeth II in 1959
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