Today in History for May 8th
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Allies celebrate the end of World War Two; Indians holding the hamlet of Wounded Knee surrender; Coca-Cola invented. (May 8)
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811
Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
1319
A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
1632
Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677
Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793
Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1813
Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
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