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- 1300
- Waldkirch is given city law in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1823
- The village of St. Marys is laid out in Ohio.
- 1887
- Cork Western Road station opens along the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway in County Cork.
- 1890
- The Liévin–Frévent rail line opens in France.
- 2004
- The University of Cincinnati renames various streets on campus to improve emergency response times.
- 2012
- The Banghuai Expressway opens in Anhui province.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 8, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 8 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.