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On this day: German composer Richard Strauss died in 1949

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 8: 1900 – A hurricane and tidal wave killed at least 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas. 1942 – In a rare raid on the U.S. mainland, a Japanese plane dropped incendiaries on the state of Oregon. 1943 – U.S. Gener…