July 8

is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining.

Events

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of the Ristigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1876 - White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi was deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.
1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
1992 - Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe Helsinki Summit creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM).
1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. That is the last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.

Births

1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, chairman of the American Motors Corporation (1954-62) (d. 1995)
1908 - Louis Jordan, American singer and saxophonist (d. 1975)
1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1993)
1918 - Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer
1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1948 - Raffi Cavoukian, Armenian children's entertainer
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor
1970 - Beck, American singer
1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1984 - Alexis Dziena, American actress

Deaths

810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, British admiral and Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1898 - Soapy Smith, Shooting death of Jefferson R. Smith. Skagway, Alaska (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician and psychologist (b. 1859)
1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, novelist, and poet (b. 1881)
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - Thomas Lynch, English Artist.
1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)

Holidays and observances

Feast day of Saint Grimbald
Feast day of Saint Kilian
Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle

External links

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