Notable Historical Events on July 8th
July 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
939 |
The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi |
951 |
Paris is founded |
1099 |
First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. |
1283 |
War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta |
1497 |
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs for on his first voyage - becomes first European to reach India by sea |
1579 |
Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. |
1663 |
King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island |
1672 |
Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general |
1680 |
The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
1693 |
NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies |
1709 |
Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes |
1716 |
Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen, a Danish-Norwegian force under Peter Tordenskjold trapped and defeated a similar Swedish force |
1758 |
British & Colonial assault on French forces at Ticonderoga, NY |
1776 |
Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decaration of Independence (Philadelphia) |
1777 |
Vermont introduces new constitution making it 1st US state to abolish slavery |
1778 |
George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army |
1792 |
France declares war on Prussia |
1796 |
US State Dept issues 1st American passport |
1797 |
1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment |
1800 |
Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox |
1805 |
American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England |
1816 |
Frost in Waltham, MA |
1822 |
Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. |
1833 |
Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty |
1835 |
Liberty Bell cracks (again) |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena |
1838 |
Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed |
1849 |
St Paul's Place in the Bronx named |
1853 |
Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay |
1859 |
King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. |
1861 |
CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory |
1861 |
Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked & dispersed |
1862 |
Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret |
1864 |
The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken. |
1870 |
US Congress authorizes registration of trademarks |
1870 |
Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection |
1874 |
The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin |
1876 |
White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5 |
1889 |
John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) |
1889 |
Wall Street Journal begins publishing |
1891 |
61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila |
1892 |
American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass |
1892 |
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. |
1895 |
Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa |
1896 |
William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech at Democrat convention |
1896 |
Charles Tupper resigns as Prime Minister of Canada after losing the June 23rd election, his 69-day term the shortest in Canadian history |
1897 |
Harbor Hospital formally opens |
1898 |
Phillies' Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
1898 |
US battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila |
1898 |
The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. |
1900 |
1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) |
1902 |
John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore & Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles |
1905 |
Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center |
1905 |
22nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: May Bundy beats D Chambers (6-3 6-4) |
1905 |
29th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats N Brookes (8-6 6-2 6-4) |
1905 |
The soldiers of the Russian ship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Rumanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after |
1907 |
Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof |
1908 |
Uprisings spread throughout Turkey |
1909 |
1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights |
1911 |
Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse |
1911 |
35th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats H Roper-Barrett (6-4 4-6 2-6 6-2) |
1912 |
G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge |
1912 |
Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight |
1912 |
29th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Ethel Larcombe beats C Sterry (6-3 6-1) |
1912 |
36th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats A Gore (6-4 6-4 4-6 6-4) |
1915 |
The Germans reply to Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands |
1918 |
Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple |
1919 |
Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference |
1922 |
35th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (6-2 6-0) |
1923 |
Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla) |
1923 |
Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland |
1928 |
Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader |
1932 |
Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 |
1932 |
Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs |
1933 |
46th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (6-4 6-8 6-3) |
1933 |
Public Works Administration becomes effective |
1933 |
68th British Golf Open: Denny Shute shoots a 292 at Old Course at St Andrews |
1935 |
3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
1938 |
Would be start of England v Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout |
1938 |
73rd British Golf Open: Reg Whitcombe shoots a 295 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
1939 |
59th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (2-6 8-6 3-6 6-3 6-2) |
1941 |
9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
1941 |
All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star |
1943 |
4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve |
1943 |
British air raid sinks U-232 |
1943 |
NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler |
1943 |
US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia |
1944 |
British troops march into Caen |
1944 |
Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan |
1946 |
"Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1946 |
Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary |
1947 |
14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
1947 |
Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC |
1947 |
Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico. |
1948 |
500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow |
1949 |
Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants |
1949 |
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa |
1950 |
33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record) |
1950 |
57th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (6-1 3-6 6-1) |
1950 |
Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea |
1950 |
Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea |
1951 |
Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud |
1952 |
19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila |
1953 |
US stops aid to Persia |
1954 |
KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1954 |
Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala |
1956 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open |
1956 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1957 |
Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick |
1957 |
CDC incorporates |
1957 |
Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders |
1958 |
25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt |
1960 |
Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ |
1961 |
Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies |
1961 |
Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die |
1962 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open |
1963 |
Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland |
1963 |
US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba |
1965 |
Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game |
1966 |
US airline strike (until Aug 19th) |
1966 |
King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. |
1967 |
74th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Anne Jones (63 64) |
1967 |
Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games |
1968 |
Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal |
1969 |
US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam |
1969 |
IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer. |
1970 |
SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) |
1971 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1971 |
During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; as a result, riots erupted in the city and the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraws from Stormont in protest |
1972 |
US sells grain to USSR for $750 million |
1973 |
Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker |
1973 |
NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant |
1974 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1974 |
Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game |
1975 |
Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany |
1975 |
US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for presidency |
1975 |
Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated |
1976 |
Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break |
1977 |
Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs) |
1978 |
92nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63) |
1978 |
Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy |
1978 |
Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus |
1979 |
Congo adopts constitution |
1979 |
Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles |
1979 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1979 |
Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) |
1980 |
51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA |
1980 |
All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds) |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981 |
PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France |
1981 |
Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) |
1982 |
"7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
1982 |
Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager |
1982 |
Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property |
1982 |
Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized. |
1983 |
Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title |
1984 |
98th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors (6-1 6-1 6-2) |
1984 |
Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1985 |
99th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64) |
1985 |
Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red |
1986 |
Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') |
1986 |
NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance |
1986 |
Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy |
1987 |
Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years |
1988 |
Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) |
1988 |
Miami Arena opens |
1988 |
Rockers Jonathan "Chico" & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking |
1988 |
Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 |
1989 |
Carlos Saul Menum becomes president of Argentina |
1989 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1990 |
12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) |
1990 |
Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning |
1990 |
Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup in Rome |
1990 |
Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) |
1990 |
Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1990 |
Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 |
1991 |
Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins |
1991 |
Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed |
1992 |
Florida Marlins unveil their uniform |
1992 |
Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria |
1992 |
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities. |
1994 |
Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson |
1994 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36) |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches |
1994 |
St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years |
1995 |
102nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (4-6 6-1 7-5) |
1995 |
1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold |
1997 |
68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland |
1997 |
NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join |
1999 |
Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida. |
2001 |
108th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats Justine Henin (6-1 3-6 6-0) |
2003 |
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. |
2006 |
113th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Amélie Mauresmo beats J Henin-Hardenne (2-6 6-3 6-4) |
2007 |
114th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williams beats Marion Bartoli (6-4 6-1) |
2007 |
121st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal (7-6 4-6 7-6 2-6 6-2) |
2011 |
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. |
2012 |
Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province |
2012 |
Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe |
2012 |
119th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwańska (6-1 5-7 6-2) |
2012 |
126th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Murray (4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4) |
2013 |
42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo |
2013 |
A dozen people are killed and injured after a hotel collapses in Hyderbad, India |
2014 |
Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 to make it to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
2014 |
Miroslav Klose breaks the World Cup goal scoring record with 16 goals |
2016 |
Snipers kill five Dallas police, wound six during protests over police shootings |
2018 |
British police continue hunt for poison used against ex-spy |
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