July 8 Events |
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| July 8th, 2003 (July 08 2003) | Event | Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries. | |
| July 8th, 1999 (July 08 1999) | Event | Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida. | Allen Tate Quotes |
| July 8th, 1997 (July 08 1997) | Event | NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999. | |
| July 8th, 1992 (July 08 1992) | Event | Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities. | |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Event | Assassination attempt against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Event | Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized. | |
| July 8th, 1980 (July 08 1980) | Event | The first Rugby League State of Origin match between the Queensland Maroons and New South Wales Blues is played at Lang Park, Brisbane. | |
| July 8th, 1977 (July 08 1977) | Event | The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean conductor and the composer of the national anthem Aegukga, are transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery. | |
| July 8th, 1969 (July 08 1969) | Event | IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer. | |
| July 8th, 1966 (July 08 1966) | Event | King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. | |
| July 8th, 1962 (July 08 1962) | Event | Ne Win seiged and dynamited the Ragoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement. | |
| July 8th, 1960 (July 08 1960) | Event | Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. | |
| July 8th, 1947 (July 08 1947) | Event | Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico. | |
| July 8th, 1932 (July 08 1932) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22. | |
| July 8th, 1898 (July 08 1898) | Event | The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. | |
| July 8th, 1896 (July 08 1896) | Event | William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. | William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| July 8th, 1892 (July 08 1892) | Event | St. John s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. | |
| July 8th, 1889 (July 08 1889) | Event | The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published. | |
| July 8th, 1876 (July 08 1876) | Event | White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC. | |
| July 8th, 1874 (July 08 1874) | Event | The Mounties begin their March West. | |
| July 8th, 1864 (July 08 1864) | Event | The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi s planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken. | |
| July 8th, 1859 (July 08 1859) | Event | King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | |
| July 8th, 1853 (July 08 1853) | Event | Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. | |
| July 8th, 1822 (July 08 1822) | Event | Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. | |
| July 8th, 1776 (July 08 1776) | Event | The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell was famously rung. | |
| July 8th, 1775 (July 08 1775) | Event | The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. | |
| July 8th, 1760 (July 08 1760) | Event | French and Indian War: Battle of RestigoucheBritish defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. | |
| July 8th, 1758 (July 08 1758) | Event | French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. | |
| July 8th, 1716 (July 08 1716) | Event | Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen | |
| July 8th, 1709 (July 08 1709) | Event | 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. | |
| July 8th, 1680 (July 08 1680) | Event | The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| July 8th, 1663 (July 08 1663) | Event | Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island. | John Hart Quotes |
| July 8th, 1579 (July 08 1579) | Event | Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. | |
| July 8th, 1497 (July 08 1497) | Event | Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India. | |
| July 8th, 1283 (July 08 1283) | Event | War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta | |
| July 8th, 1099 (July 08 1099) | Event | First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. | |
| July 8th, 0939 (July 08 0939) | Event | The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi | |
