July 8

July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1709 - Battle of Poltava - In the Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
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.
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
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1889 - During the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech, Chicago.
1940 - Robert Denis Jackson is born.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
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.
2003 - Wikipedia introduces its Hebrew and Hungarian versions

Births

1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter (d. 1651)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, fablist
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, naval officer and explorer
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid dirigibles (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, capitalist, founder of Standard Oil (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
1885 - Ernst Bloch, philosopher (d. 1977)
1908 - Louis Jordan, singer, saxophonist ("Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby,"), actor (Fuzzy Wuzzy, Five Guys Named Moe) (d. 1975)
1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, United States vice president during Gerald Ford's presidency (d. 1979)
1918 - Craig Stevens, actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Walter Scheel, politician
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
1932 - Barbara Loden, actress (Splendor in the Grass)
1933 - Marty Feldman, comedian, actor (Young Frankenstein)
1935 - Steve Lawrence, entertainer, singer
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1940 - Robert Denis Jackson amateur radio operator, guitar, dobro, dulcimer picker, dad, husband, piddler
1941 - Dario Gradi, football manager
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1951 - Anjelica Huston, actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Addams Family)
1958 - Kevin Bacon, actor (Apollo 13, Wild Things)
1961 - Andy Fletcher, musician (Depeche Mode)
1961 - Toby Keith, country music singer
1968 - Billy Crudup, actor
1970 - Beck, rock and roll singer
1975 - Kathleen Robertson, actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Scary Movie 2)
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

Deaths

975 - King Edgar of England
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1623 - Pope Gregory XV
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, author
1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, only a few days after both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. (The two died on July 4, 1826.)
1850 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway
1917 - Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson, painter
1933 - Anthony Hope, author ("The Prisoner of Zenda")
1943 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist
1959 - Major Dale R. Buis, US Army, first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam.
1986 - Skeeter Webb, Professional baseball Player (b. 1909)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
1990 - Howard Duff, actor
1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader
2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian twins died after an unsuccessful separation operation

Holidays and observances

Feast day of Saint Grimbald

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