The Beijing Olympics, for instance, started on the eighth day of the eighth month in 2008.
"Today is the eighth day of my daughter's resurrection, " the girl's father, Fabian Veron, told CNN Wednesday.
However, some other internal clocks readjusted at different rates and weren't all working correctly until the eighth day.
The Jewish Torah, however, is inconveniently specific: God told Abraham to circumcise his heirs on the eighth day.
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On Wednesday, the eighth day of debate on the package, senators plodded their way through the numerous remaining amendments.
That is why the Beijing Olympics were staged on 8 August 2008, the eighth day of the eighth month of an eighth year.
Daytime and late night programming will be available within 24 hours after initial airing, while most primetime programs will be available on the eighth day after broadcast.
He worked the eighth a day earlier and gave up two runs that made it 5-all.
The Dow Jones industrial average saw its eighth straight day in the red Tuesday, thanks in part to a Commerce Department report that showed first decline in monthly consumer spending in 20 months.
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For the eighth successive day, around 17, 000 spectators packed into the O2 Arena that has proved such a success on its debut as host to the most prestigious event outside the four Grand Slams.
The Finn dropped two places from sixth to eighth late in the day when he hit a rock.
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That was Scottish amateur Lloyd Saltman in the eighth group of the day.
Norwegian Solberg, who started the day in eighth overall, won two stages on the third leg to go into the final stage just 10.7 seconds behind sixth-placed Jussi Valimaki.
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The Moon Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
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They began the day in the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, a point ahead of Dallas and Columbus.
On a day when countless eighth graders across the country saw their orthodontists and fretted over potential dates for the middle school graduation dance, Guan calmly played in the world's most famous golf tournament in a threesome that included Ben Crenshaw, the 61-year-old former Masters champion who is old enough to be Guan's grandfather.
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One day, in the eighth-floor cafeteria, I noticed Rajaratnam standing alone by a refrigerator case, contemplating the beverage choices.
Raja Casablanca have won the league title for the eighth time after a dramatic last day of the season on Sunday.
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That's how Zsa Zsa Gabor voided her day-long marriage (her eighth) in 1983 to Mexican actor Felipe de Alba.
Cooper was hired as the eighth coach in Lightning history Monday, one day after the team announced the firing of Guy Boucher.
West Indies are eighth in both the Test and one-day rankings and Hilaire acknowledged that Gibson had been handed a "long-term project".
Amongst the amateurs, South African Robert Hersov carded a hole in one on the 157 yard eighth hole - his 17th hole of the day - at Carnoustie, but failed to make the cut for the final day.
However nothing could spoil another wonderful day for a side who are in eighth spot in the Premier League table.
Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.
Romulus did not create Rome out of nothing, he grants, but it is possible that there was a single day, around the middle of the eighth century B.
Crusaders ' victory put them back into eighth spot as Castleford, who had started the day there, went down 40-30 in another nailbiter against St Helens at Knowsley Road.
Johnson steadied the innings as he added 61 for the seventh wicket with Mike Hussey (34) and 58 for the eighth with Peter Siddle (13) before seeing out the day with Nathan Lyon (0).
Only about one-eighth of the 400, 000 visitors expected on average each day will be able to get into the Chinese pavilion (though unlike most of the other structures, this will not be dismantled after the expo).
Collin Cowgill, who hit a grand slam on opening day, had a solo homer in the Mets' eighth.
At the day's start, Kirsten and Zondeki's eighth-wicket partnership was eventually ended once it had realised an astonishing 150 runs.
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