Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on August 8 across the 1 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in southern Charleroi killed 262 miners in a fire caused by a coal wagon accidentally severing electrical and compressed-air pipes 975 m below the surface, igniting oil and rubber.
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →