Historical Events on September 8 (Part 2)

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• 2019 Cargo ship Golden Ray catches fire and capsizes in St Simons Sound, off coast of Georgia, trapping four crew inside

• 2019 Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210km/h (130mph)
• 2020 Moria refugee camp, Europe's biggest migrant camp burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter
• 2020 Two ex-Myanmar soldiers testify they were ordered to rape and kill Muslim Rohingya villagers, 1st public confession of army-directed crimes against Rohingya [1]

• 2021 Forty-one prisoners die in a fire at Tangerang prison, near Jakarta, Indonesia

• 2021 Wildfire in Spanish Sierra Bermeja mountains in Andalucía erupts forcing evacuation of 2,600 people
• 2022 Australian government passes its first climate change legislation in a decade, including cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030 [1]
• 2022 Australian Stephanie Gilmore wins her eighth world surfing title at Lower Trestles, California - making her the most successful women's champion in history
• 2022 Europe had the warmest summer ever recorded, 0.4 warmer with August 0.8 warmer according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service [1]

• 2022 Ireland begins paying 2,000 artists a weekly wage of €325 in its Basic Income for the Arts scheme, to help the creative arts recover from the pandemic [1]

• 2023 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Morocco, its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains near Marrakesh, killing around 3,000 people and causing catastrophic damage affecting over 6 million people [1]

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