Basketball Coach Jerry Tarkanian

Events in 1930 and 8-8

Events in US in the birth year of Jerry Tarkanian

• Unemployment soars, prompting President Hoover to appoint a Commission for Unemployment Relief.
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by Congress. The act brings retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffers a sharp decline, and the depression intensifies.
• N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater withdraws all his money from the bank, sells his stock, and disappears. His fate is never learned.

Birthday Jerry Tarkanian (8-8) in history

• Day 8-8 year 1588: British naval forces attacked the Armada fleet, permanently crippling the "invincible" Spanish fleet.
• Day 8-8 year 1786: Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat became the first people to climb Mont Blanc.
• Day 8-8 year 1876: Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
• Day 8-8 year 1900: The first Davis Cup tennis tournament began at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
• Day 8-8 year 1963: In "The Great Train Robbery," some 15 thieves robbed the Glasgow-to-London mail train, making off with more than $6 million in cash.
• Day 8-8 year 1969: Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, and four others were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family."
• Day 8-8 year 1974: President Nixon announced he would resign the following day as a result of the Watergate scandal.
• Day 8-8 year 2008: The Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing, China.