| 102211 | September 8 | Event | 1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time. |
| 102212 | September 8 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany. |
| 102213 | September 8 | Event | 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier. |
| 102214 | September 8 | Event | 1946 – A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria. |
| 102215 | September 8 | Event | 1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. |
| 102216 | September 8 | Event | 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang. |
| 102217 | September 8 | Event | 1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established. |
| 102218 | September 8 | Event | 1955 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 108 is adopted. |
| 102219 | September 8 | Event | 1959 – The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. |
| 102220 | September 8 | Event | 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). |
| 102221 | September 8 | Event | 1962 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution. |
| 102222 | September 8 | Event | 1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star. |
| 102223 | September 8 | Event | 1965 – Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually. |
| 102224 | September 8 | Event | 1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 102225 | September 8 | Event | 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC. |
| 102226 | September 8 | Event | 1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. |
| 102227 | September 8 | Event | 1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. |
| 102228 | September 8 | Event | 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. |
| 102229 | September 8 | Event | 1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which |
| 102230 | September 8 | Event | 1978 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, provoked 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran |
| 102231 | September 8 | Event | 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires. |
| 102232 | September 8 | Event | 1989 – Partnair Flight 394 drove into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade. |
| 102233 | September 8 | Event | 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. |
| 102234 | September 8 | Event | 1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry |
| 102235 | September 8 | Event | 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. |
| 102236 | September 8 | Event | 2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America. |
| 102237 | September 8 | Event | 2012 – Jimmy Carter passes Herbert Hoover for longest retirement after leaving office. Hoover was retired for 11,553 days, and had held the record for over 54 years. |
| 102238 | September 8 | Event | 2013 – Eleven people are killed in a train collision in Iași County, Romania. |
| 102239 | September 8 | Birth | 685 – Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (d. 762) |
| 102240 | September 8 | Birth | 801 – Ansgar, German archbishop and saint (d. 865) |