| 89551 | August 8 | Event | 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road. |
| 89552 | August 8 | Event | 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. |
| 89553 | August 8 | Event | 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. |
| 89554 | August 8 | Event | 1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland. |
| 89555 | August 8 | Event | 1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. |
| 89556 | August 8 | Event | 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. |
| 89557 | August 8 | Event | 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. |
| 89558 | August 8 | Event | 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. |
| 89559 | August 8 | Event | 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. |
| 89560 | August 8 | Event | 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. |
| 89561 | August 8 | Event | 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 and in |
| 89562 | August 8 | Event | 2008 – Official ceremony of 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bird's Nest. |
| 89563 | August 8 | Event | 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. |
| 89564 | August 8 | Event | 2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. |
| 89565 | August 8 | Event | 2015 – 8 people are killed in a shooting in Houston, Texas. |
| 89566 | August 8 | Birth | 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107) |
| 89567 | August 8 | Birth | 1518 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-German scholar and author (d. 1561) |
| 89568 | August 8 | Birth | 1605 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1675) |
| 89569 | August 8 | Birth | 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697) |
| 89570 | August 8 | Birth | 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (d. 1723) |
| 89571 | August 8 | Birth | 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726) |
| 89572 | August 8 | Birth | 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762) |
| 89573 | August 8 | Birth | 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic (d. 1746) |
| 89574 | August 8 | Birth | 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German-Italian monk and violinist (d. 1779) |
| 89575 | August 8 | Birth | 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (d. 1796) |
| 89576 | August 8 | Birth | 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (d. 1838) |
| 89577 | August 8 | Birth | 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (d. 1892) |
| 89578 | August 8 | Birth | 1814 – Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (d. 1902) |
| 89579 | August 8 | Birth | 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German-Russian wife of Alexander II of Russia (d. 1880) |
| 89580 | August 8 | Birth | 1839 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925) |