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May 8th, 2007	Event	A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein as Deputy First Minister.
May 8th, 2005	Event	The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
May 8th, 1999	Event	Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
May 8th, 1997	Event	A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Shenzhen s Huangtian Airport, killing 35 people.
May 8th, 1990	Event	Reindependence Day of Estonia
May 8th, 1988	Event	A fire at Illinois Bell s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS outage once considered the worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history is still the worst to occur on Mother s Day.
May 8th, 1987	Event	The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
May 8th, 1984	Event	The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8th, 1984	Event	Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Rene Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
May 8th, 1973	Event	A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.

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