Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark were crowned King and Queen of the UK on August 9, 1902. His coronation things didn't go to plan. The Archbishop of Canterbury was aged and infirm. Onlookers feared that the primate might drop the crown for it shook in his hands as he held it over the King's head but he got it on-somehow but back to front. However no one noticed this blunder and the coronation carried on with the king wearing his crown lopsided.
The moment of crowning in the coronation service.
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Roger Federer was born at the Basel Cantonal Hospital in Basel, Switzerland on August 8, 1981 to a Swiss father Robert Federer and South African mother, Lynette Federer (born Durand), whose ancestors were Dutch and French Huguenots. Roger Federer holds both Swiss and South African citizenships.
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Federer became the #1 ranked men's singles player on February 2, 2004, a position he would hold for a record 237 weeks. He has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles—the most in history for a male player.
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International Cat Day a celebration that takes place on August 8 every year was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The day raises awareness for cats and educates us in ways to help and protect them.
The earliest authenticated record of the domestication of the cat in ancient Egypt dates from 1500 BC, although the cat was proclaimed to be sacred in that country about 1,000 years earlier. The actual domestication of cats probably came about when the Egyptians noticed that cats protected their granaries from rodents.
The ancient Egyptians 'created' the modern house cats we know today through selective breeding; choosing the most sociable and friendly ones to reproduce.
Cats can comfortably withstand high external temperatures ranging up to 126° F to 133° F before showing any signs that they are hot. This is thought to be a remnant of the fact that they were once probably desert animals.
The cat that holds the world record for amount of mice killed is Towser (1963-1987) who lived in the still house, Glenturret Distillery in Scotland for almost 24 years. She caught 28,899 mice in her lifetime. Her life and exploits are commemorated by a bronze statue at the 'Famous Grouse Experience' visitor centre on the Glenturret site and her paw prints are marked on every bottle of Fairlie’s Light Highland Liqueur.
A scandal called "Watergate" in which Richard Nixon attempted to protect men ordered to burglarize the Democratic National Headquarters cost him much of his political support in his second term. On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon announced he was resigning — the first USA President to do so — in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
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