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Friday, 08 May 2026

2010

The last piece of Yankee Stadium falls in the Bronx, New York, marking the end of the two year demolition process.

Barrow AFC won the English FA Trophy at Wembley, this makes them the only team in the world to win it at both the Old & New Wembley stadiums.

1997

A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Shenzhen's Huangtian Airport, killing 35 people.

1988

A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

1987

The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.

1984

Thames Barrier officially opened.

Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.

The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

1980

The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.

1978

First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.

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