On May 8, 2010, 88-year-old actress Betty White, known for her former roles on “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” becomes the oldest person to host the long-running, late-night TV sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” (SNL).

In a momentous move that underscored the shifting geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe, the United States Senate unanimously approved the expansion of NATO in May 2003, welcoming seven former communist nations into the alliance.

In a pivotal moment for the war-torn region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Muslim-led government and the rebel Bosnian Serbs reached a historic agreement on a nationwide cease-fire in 1993.

Claiming that its athletes will not be safe from protests and possible physical attacks, the Soviet Union announces it will not compete in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

In a significant geopolitical move, the Soviet Union declared on March 8, 1984, its intention to boycott the forthcoming Summer Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Los Angeles.

On May 8, 1976, John Sebastian’s playfully nostalgic theme song for the TV show “Welcome Back, Kotter” becomes the number one pop single in the U.

Wounded Knee Standoff Ends After 10 Weeks In a historic conclusion to a tense standoff, militant American Indians surrendered on May 8, 1973, after occupying the small South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks.

On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) surrender to federal authorities, ending their 71-day siege of Wounded Knee, site of the infamous massacre of 300 Lakota Indians by the U.

President Nixon, at a news conference, defends the U.

On May 8, 1963, with the American release of Dr.