On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, dies at age 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

On September 8, 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) responds to growing piracy of digital music files by announcing a new and controversial strategy: the filing of lawsuits against individual music fans who use file-sharing sites, some of them children.

A glass ceiling is smashed on September 8, 1993 with the premiere of The Joy Luck Club, the first major modern Hollywood movie featuring an all Asian American and predominantly female cast.

On September 8, 1986, The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast nationally for the first time.

On September 8, 1968, at nearly three in the morning, Saundra Williams walks across a stage with a cream rhinestone cape around her shoulders, a sash across her torso and a scepter in her hand, ready to be crowned as pageant royalty.

We have the formula, the music and the female fans standing by ready to scream. All we need now is four likely lads to form the band. Enter "The Monkees".

September 8, 1965 marks the beginning of one of the most important strikes in American history.

On September 8, 1957, 30-year-old Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win the U.

Having been directed by President Dwight D.

U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their postwar occupation of the southern part of that nation, almost exactly one month after Soviet troops had entered northern Korea to begin their own occupation.