Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 September 8

Leonard Nimoy as Spock

• ... that during the development of Spock, both DeForest Kelley and Martin Landau were offered the role before Leonard Nimoy (pictured)?
• ... that
  Emmy Awards
  for his work on the Star Trek franchise?
• ... that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family" was the first episode of the franchise not to have any scene set on the bridge?
• ... that Michael Piller felt that the mention of Spock in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sarek" opened the doors to further references to The Original Series?
• ... that Star Trek: Starship Creator allowed players to import photographs of themselves into the game?
• ... that after Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett transported some old Star Trek footage from a film vault, it was sold as film clips by Lincoln Enterprises?
• ... that prior to casting Andrea Martin as the female Ferengi Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David Livingston suggested Wallace Shawn in drag?
• ... that Gene Roddenberry pranked Steven W. Carabatsos on his first day on Star Trek by inflating a weather balloon in his office?

Eastern gorilla

• The
  critically endangered
  .
• Mother Teresa is officially declared a saint by Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church.
• A bombing at a market in Davao City, Southern Philippines, kills 14 people and injures 70 others.
• Islam Karimov, the President of Uzbekistan since 1991, dies in office at the age of 78.
• An explosion during preparations for a
  Amos-6 communications satellite and its launch vehicle, Falcon 9 Full Thrust
  .

September 8

Severn Bridge

• 1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár, Hungary, they were forced to end their campaign to capture Vienna.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: British and French forces and their respective Indian allies fought to a draw in the Battle of Lake George.
• most lethal battles in world history
  .
• 1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge (pictured), hailing it as the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
• 1978 – Iranian Revolution: After the government of the Shah of Iran declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday.