Wrigley Field hosted its first-ever night game – Chicago Tribune
Today is Friday August 8, the 220 day of 2025. There are 145 days in the year.
Today in history:
On August 8, 1988, Wrigley Field organized his very first night baseball match; The competition between the Cubs of Chicago and Philadelphia Phillies would be rainy in the fourth round.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: How Wrigley Field obtained lights and why fans of cubs had to wait for the 8-8-88 to raise the flag `W ‘
Also on this date:
In 1814, during the 1812 war, peace talks between the United States and Great Britain began in Ghent, Belgium.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte put his sails so that St. Helena spent the rest of her days in exile.
In 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric pen – the precursor of the Mimeographer machine.
In 1908, Wilbur Wright made the first demonstration of public flight from the Wright brothers, at the Le Mans racecourse in France.
In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure increasing the number of American representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next congress, with a reserve to add two others when the New Mexico and Arizona became states.
In 1963, the Great Train Robbery of Great Britain took place while the thieves succeeded with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.
In 1969, the photographer Iain Macmillan took the emblematic photo of the Beatles which would appear on the cover of their album “Abbey Road”.
In 1974, President Richard Nixon, confronted with new, damaged revelations in the Watergate scandal, announced that he would resign the next day.
In 2000, the wreck of the Confederate submarine HL Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacked the ship of the Housatonic Union, was found off the South Carolina coast and returned to Port.
In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the first Hispanic judge and third female judge of the United States Supreme Court.
In 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant for the residence of former president Donald Trump in Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida; More than 13,000 government documents, including 103 classified documents, were seized.
In 2023, a series of forest fires led by the wind broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the city of Lahaina and killing more than 100 people.
The birthdays of today: the actor Nita Talbot is 95 years old. The actor Dustin Hoffman is 88 years old. Actor Connie Stevens is 87 years old. The actor Larry Wilcox is 78. Maniacs) is 68 years old. The personality of television Deborah Norville is 67 years old. Rock musician The Edge (U2) is 64. The musician of Rock Rikki Rockett (Poison) is 64 years old. Rapper Kool Moe Dee is 63 years old. The singer Rock Scott Stapp is 52 years. The singer Country Mark is 52. Actor Kohl Sudduth is 51. Rock Musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) is 50. (‘N Sync) is 49. Actor Tawny Cypress is 49 years old. The singer R&B Drew Lechey (98 degrees) is 49. The R&B singer Marsha Ambroius is 48 years old. Actor Lindsay Sloane is 48 years old. Princess Beatrice of York is 37 years old. Actor Ken Baumann is 36 years old. Pop singer Shawn Mendes is 27 years old.
