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
- 1283 –War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought.
- 1663 –Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
- 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.
- 1808 –Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
- 1859 –King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1864 –Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi’s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1889 –The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- 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.
- 1948 –The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- 1960 –Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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