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Revision as of 20:33, 8 August 2024
August 8, 2024 (2024-08-08) (Thursday)Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Debby
- Tropical Storm Debby makes its second landfall near Bulls Bay, South Carolina, United States. (AP)
- Hurricane Debby
- 2024 Hyūga-nada earthquake
- A 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Kyushu, Japan. A tsunami advisory is issued for parts of Kyushu and Shikoku islands. (The Japan Times)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Non-cooperation movement
- Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead the interim government. (Reuters)
- Non-cooperation movement
- 2024 Catalan regional election
- The Parliament of Catalonia, in Spain, elects socialist candidate Salvador Illa as the new Catalan government president, ending the more than a decade separatist ruling. (Al Jazeera)
- 2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis
- Former Catalan government president Carles Puigdemont returns to Barcelona after seven years of "self-exile", defying the arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court. Catalan regional police activates the operation "Gàbia" to arrest him with controls in the main roads. (The New York Times) (Cadena SER)
- A Mossos d'Esquadra agent is arrested for collaborating in the escape of Puigdemont after reappearing in Barcelona. (Antena 3)
Sports
- 2024 Summer Olympics
- Ecuador at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Lucía Yépez wins the silver medal in the Women's freestyle 53 kg wrestling event, earning the first ever medal for Ecuador at the Olympics in the sport. (Olympics)
- Pakistan at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Arshad Nadeem wins the gold medal in Men's javelin throw, breaking the Olympic record and earning both the first ever gold medal in Athletics and first individual gold medal of the 2024 games for Pakistan. (DW)
- Ecuador at the 2024 Summer Olympics