On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first powered, sustained, controlled, heavier-than-air flights at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Five years after their first successful flight in 1903, the Wright brothers demonstrated their flying machine in its first public flight on August 8, 1908.

Anees Bazmee directed Singh Is Kinng, a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film based on a screenplay by Bazmee and Suresh Nair. Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Ranvir Shorey, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey, Sonu Sood, and Sudhanshu Pandey star in the film. Happy Singh (Kumar) is sent to Australia to reunite Lakhan Singh (Sood), a crime boss, with his ailing father, but instead finds himself dealing with love and trouble.

From 1509 to 1529, Krishnadevaraya was emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings in Indian history and was the third ruler of the Tuluva dynasty. The Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India was revived during the reign of Emperor Krishnadeva Raya in 1509.

In 1876, Thomas Edison received a patent for "Autographic Printing," which covered the electric pen and flatbed press; in 1880, he received a patent for "Autographic Stencils." Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph in 1887, after licencing and refining Edison's patents.

Iain Stewart Macmillan was a Scottish photographer best known for photographing the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. He grew up in Scotland before moving to London to pursue a career as a photographer.

Samir Subash Naik, an ex-professional footballer from India who played as a defender for Dempo SC and India, was born on August 8, 1979. He is currently the Goa Professional League's Dempo SC's head coach. Naik plays regularly for India and is a member of the successful Dempo SC team that won two league championships and advanced to the AFC Cup semifinals. In a 2012 international friendly against Oman, he also served as captain of the Indian team.

STS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to the United States Department of Defense, and Space Shuttle Columbia's eighth flight. The mission launched on August 8, 1989, and travelled 3,400,000 km (2,100,000 mi) around the Earth in 81 orbits before landing on runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on August 13, 1989.

Indian cricketer Dilip Narayan Sardesai (8 August 1940 – 2 July 2007) represented his country internationally. He was the first Goa-born cricketer to play for India and was a Test batsman. He was frequently regarded as one of India's best batsmen against spin, despite the fact that Indian batsmen are generally known to perform better against spin.

Kane Stuart Williamson (born August 8, 1990) is a New Zealand international cricketer and the current captain of the New Zealand national team across all formats. He bats right-handed and bowls off spin on occasion. In December 2007, Williamson made his first-class debut. The same year, he made his U-19 debut against the visiting Indian U-19 team and was named captain of the New Zealand U-19 team for the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup. In 2010, he made his international debut.

Singer Shawn Mendes is from Canada and was born on August 8, 1998. In 2013, he developed a fan base by uploading song covers to the video-sharing website Vine. He attracted the attention of Island Records A&R Ziggy Chareton and artist manager Andrew Gertler the following year, which resulted in him signing a contract with the label. 2014 saw the release of Mendes' self-titled debut EP, and 2015 saw the release of his first studio album, Handwritten. Mendes is one of only five musicians to have their debut album at number one before turning 18 thanks to Handwritten, which debuted atop the US Billboard 200. 

Kapil Sibal is an Indian politician and attorney who was born on August 8, 1948. Sibal is regarded as one of India's most illustrious attorneys and has defended clients in a number of high-profile cases before the Supreme Court of India. He serves in the Rajya Sabha as a member of parliament.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was founded on August 8, 1967, in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by ASEAN's Founding Fathers: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.

On August 8th, 2013, Chennai Express was theatrically released in foreign regions and on 9th August in India. The plot follows as A young man named Rahul travels to Rameshwaram to immerse his deceased grandfather's ashes. He must, however, face the wrath of Meena's criminal family when he assists the fleeing bride in boarding a train.

Roger Federer (born August 8, 1981) is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranked him world No. 1 for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and he has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. He has 103 ATP singles titles, second only to Jimmy Connors, including 20 Grand Slams, a record eight men's singles Wimbledon titles, and a record six year-end championships.

Subhash Ghai directed, produced, and co-wrote the 1997 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film Pardes. Mukta Arts distributes the film, which stars Shah Rukh Khan, newcomers Mahima Chaudhry and Apurva Agnihotri, Alok Nath, Amrish Puri, and Himani Shivpuri, as well as Alok Nath, Amrish Puri, and Himani Shivpuri. On August 8, 1997, the film was released theatrically in India. Critics gave it mixed to positive reviews, praising Khan, Chaudhry, and Agnihotri's performances.

Chennai Express is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Gauri Khan, and Karim Morani, based on a story by K. Subash and written by Yunus Sajawal, with dialogues by Farhad-Sajid. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Mithaiwala, a man who accidentally boards the eponymous train and travels from Mumbai to Rameswaram with Deepika Padukone, the daughter of a local don. Nikitin Dheer and Sathyaraj appear as extras.

Mahatma Gandhi launched the August Movement, also known as the Quit India Movement, at the All India Congress Committee meeting in Bombay on August 8, 1942, during World War II, calling for an end to British rule in India. Gandhi's Quit India speech, delivered in Bombay on August 8, 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, was a call to action following the Cripps Mission's failure to win Indian support for the British war effort.