About July 8
July 8, 2024 is the 190th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 205 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 8
- 1497 –Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
- 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: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
- 1758 –French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1760 –French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
- 1775 –The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1822 –Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- 1859 –King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1892 –St. John’s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
- 1898 –The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
- 1907 –Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1912 –Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- 1932 –The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
- 1937 –Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
- 1947 –Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 1962 –Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
- 1966 –King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
- 1994 –Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
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