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What happend on 8. July in History
In our data base we found 272 events happened on 8. July:
• 810: Pepin of Italy (b. 773) [category: Deaths]
• 901: Grimbald, Benedectine monk and Saint (b. 827) [category: Deaths]
• 975: Edgar the Peaceful, English king (b. 943) [category: Deaths]
• 1099: First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. [category: Events]
• 1153: Pope Eugene III (b. c. 1087) [category: Deaths]
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• 1283: War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats a Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta. [category: Events]
• 1490: Albert, Duke of Prussia (d.1568) [category: Births]
• 1497: Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India. [category: Events]
• 1528: Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580) [category: Births]
• 1538: Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) [category: Deaths]
• 1545: Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568) [category: Births]
• 1579: Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. [category: Events]
• 1593: Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653) [category: Births]
• 1604: Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651) [category: Births]
• 1621: Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695) [category: Births]
• 1623: Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1663: Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island. [category: Events]
• 1689: Edward Wooster, English colonist (b. 1622) [category: Deaths]
• 1695: Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer (b. 1629) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
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• 1716: Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634) [category: Deaths]
• 1716: Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place. [category: Events]
• 1721: Elihu Yale, Welsh merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649) [category: Deaths]
• 1726: John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673) [category: Deaths]
• 1730: An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline. [category: Events]
• 1758: French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York. [category: Events]
• 1760: Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826) [category: Births]
• 1760: French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. [category: Events]
• 1766: Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842) [category: Births]
• 1775: The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. [category: Events]
• 1784: Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d. 1854) [category: Births]
• 1794: Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728) [category: Deaths]
• 1808: Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain. [category: Events]
• 1819: Francis Leopold McClintock, English navy officer and explorer (d. 1907) [category: Births]
• 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1822: Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1826: Luther Martin, American politician (b. 1748) [category: Deaths]
• 1830: Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, and politician, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1830: Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1831: John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1836: Joseph Chamberlain, English politician (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1837: William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) [category: Deaths]
• 1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1839: John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1850: Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1851: Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1855: William Parry, English explorer (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 1857: Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1859: Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799) [category: Deaths]
• 1859: King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. [category: Events]
• 1864: Ikedaya Incident: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. [category: Events]
• 1867: Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1873: Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: The Mounties begin their March West. [category: Events]
• 1876: White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1878: Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. [category: Events]
• 1882: Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1885: Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1887: Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. [category: Events]
• 1892: Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1892: Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1892: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. [category: Events]
• 1895: Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1898: Soapy Smith, American gangster (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. [category: Events]
• 1900: George Antheil, American composer, pianist, and author d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1904: Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1905: Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1905: Walter Kittredge, American violinist and abolitionist (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1907: George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1908: Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor (Tympany Five) (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1908: Nelson Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1912: Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. [category: Events]
• 1913: Louis Hémon, French-Canadian writer (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1914: Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1917: Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1917: Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1918: Irwin Hasen, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1918: Paul B. Fay, American businessman and navy officer, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1919: Walter Scheel, German politician, President of Germany [category: Births]
• 1920: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1923: Harrison Dillard, American athlete [category: Births]
• 1924: Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1926: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1927: Maurice Hayes, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1930: Joseph Ward, New Zealand politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Roone Arledge, American sportscaster (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1932: Franca Raimondi, Italian singer (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1932: Jerry Vale, American singer [category: Births]
• 1932: The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22. [category: Events]
• 1933: Antonio Lamer, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1933: Anthony Hope, English author (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Alice Gerrard, American singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1934: Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician [category: Births]
• 1934: Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1934: Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1934: Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian astronaut [category: Births]
• 1937: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. [category: Events]
• 1939: Havelock Ellis, Englsh physician (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Ben Chapman, English politician and civil servant [category: Births]
• 1941: Dario Gradi, Italian-English football coach and manager [category: Births]
• 1941: Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi and politician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Janice Pennington, American model, co-founded the Hollywood Film Festival [category: Births]
• 1942: Phil Gramm, American politician [category: Births]
• 1943: Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) [category: Births]
• 1944: Jeffrey Tambor, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Kim Darby, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae [category: Births]
• 1947: Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1948: Raffi, Egyptian-Canadian singer-songwriter and author [category: Births]
• 1948: The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). [category: Events]
• 1949: Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1949: Frank De Lima, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1949: Jim Miklaszewski, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1949: Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef, businessman, and actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1950: Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Alan Ashby, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1951: Anjelica Huston, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Anna Quindlen, American columnist [category: Births]
• 1952: Jack Lambert, American football player [category: Births]
• 1952: Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1952: Marianne Williamson, American activist and author [category: Births]
• 1955: Alison Fraser, American actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1955: Monty Don, English gardener and writer [category: Births]
• 1956: Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1957: Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter (Quiet Riot and Ratt) [category: Births]
• 1957: Grace Coolidge, American wife of Calvin Coolidge, 32nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Kevin Bacon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Neetu Singh, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Billy Kimball, American screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1959: Pauline Quirke, English actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Robert Knepper, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Mal Meninga, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1960: Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1961: Andrew Fletcher, English singer and musician (Depeche Mode) [category: Births]
• 1961: Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Carmen Nicole Moelders, American scientist [category: Births]
• 1962: Joan Osborne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1962: Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. [category: Events]
• 1963: Mark Christopher, American director [category: Births]
• 1964: Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1964: Linda de Mol, Dutch actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Dan Levinson, American musician and bandleader [category: Births]
• 1965: Lee Tergesen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor, writer, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1966: Ralf Altmeyer, German virologist [category: Births]
• 1966: Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician [category: Births]
• 1966: King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. [category: Events]
• 1967: Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani politician (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Akio Suyama, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Billy Crudup, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Michael Weatherly, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1968: Thom Fitzgerald, American-Canadian director [category: Births]
• 1968: Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Sugizo Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Luna Sea, X Japan, Juno Reactor, and S.K.I.N.) [category: Births]
• 1970: Beck, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. [category: Events]
• 1971: Amanda Peterson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: John Juanda, Indonesian poker player [category: Births]
• 1971: Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player [category: Births]
• 1971: Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1973: Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli politician (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Tami Erin, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1974: Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1975: Elias Viljanen, Finnish singer and guitarist (Sonata Arctica) [category: Births]
• 1976: David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves, Box Car Racer, Hazen Street, and Over My Dead Body) [category: Births]
• 1976: Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Milo Ventimiglia, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Paolo Tiralongo, Italian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1977: Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Eve Myles, Welsh actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Rachael Lillis, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: André, Armenian singer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1979: Mat McBriar, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Robbie Keane, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1981: Iyari Limon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Wolfram Müller, German athlete [category: Births]
• 1981: Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Hakim Warrick, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Joshua Alba, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Pendleton Ward, American animator, writer, and voice actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Sophia Bush, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. [category: Events]
• 1983: Daniel Navarro, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1983: Jaroslav Janiš, Czech race car driver [category: Births]
• 1983: John Bowker, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Alexis Dziena, American actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Daniella Sarahyba, Brazilian model [category: Births]
• 1985: Jamie Cook, English musician and songwriter (Arctic Monkeys) [category: Births]
• 1986: Jake McDorman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model [category: Births]
• 1987: Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Dave Taylor, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1988: Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist [category: Births]
• 1988: Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1988: Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more. [category: Events]
• 1990: Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Benjamin Grosvenor, English pianist [category: Births]
• 1992: Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1994: Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Kim Il-sung, North Korean politician, President of North Korea (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. [category: Events]
• 1998: Jaden Smith, American actor [category: Births]
• 1999: Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Sophie Nyweide, American actress [category: Births]
• 2001: John O'Shea, New Zealand director (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Peter Hawkins, English actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Templeton, American-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Betty Ford, American activist and founder of the Betty Ford Center, 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mary Fenech Adami, Maltese wife of Eddie Fenech Adami (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. [category: Events]
• 2012: Dick Fowler, Canadian politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian politician (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Williams, American football player (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lionel Batiste, American singer and musician (Treme Brass Band) (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Martin Pakledinaz, American costume designer (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Zach Booher, American singer-songwriter and musician (While We're Up) (b. 1990) [category: Deaths]
• _: Abda and Sabas [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Auspicius of Trier [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Grimbald [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kilian, Totnan, and Colman [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Procopius of Scythopolis [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sunniva and companions [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Theobald of Marly [category: Holidays and observances]