On This Day — August 8

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on August 8.

• 2024: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
• 2023: Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
• 2022: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
• 2019: An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
• 2016: Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.

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