What happened on September 8
All 5 specimens from this file, spanning 1504 to 1974, with the story behind each photograph.
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A siege begins that will last nearly 900 days
German forces severed the last road into Leningrad, beginning a blockade of almost 900 days. Around a million civilians died, most of them from starvation during the first winter.
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A new president pardons the one who resigned a month earlier
Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon a full pardon for any crimes committed in office. It was deeply unpopular and is widely thought to have cost Ford the 1976 election. (Pictured: Nixon leaving the White House a month earlier.)
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Italy switches sides in the middle of the war
The armistice between Italy and the Allies was announced publicly, taking Italy out of the Axis. German forces immediately occupied the country and the fighting continued for another 20 months. (Pictured: Allied landings in Italy that same week.)
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Michelangelo's David is unveiled in the Piazza della Signoria
Michelangelo's David was unveiled in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence. He was 26 when he began it, working a block of marble two earlier sculptors had abandoned as ruined.
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A hurricane wipes out Galveston, the deadliest disaster the country has known
A hurricane came ashore at Galveston, Texas, with a storm surge that swept over an island whose highest point was under nine feet. Estimates of the dead run from 6,000 to 12,000, still the highest toll of any US natural disaster.