| General Information for August 8th 2016 |
| There are 5 public holidays today. |
| Day 221 of 2016 |
| 145 days left in 2016 |
| Week 32 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2010 - 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. |
| 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. |
| 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. |
| 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day). |