July 8

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Events

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christianity soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Islam defenders mock them.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke (1609-1676) a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - France forces hold Fort Carillon against Kingdom of Great Britain at Ticonderoga, New York.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 - The Declaration of Independence (United States) was read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1859 - King Charles XV of Sweden / Charles XV of Sweden accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya, this event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
1874 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police 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.
1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador was devastated in the The Great Fire of 1892.
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1933 - NFL team Pittsburgh Steelers was established.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a Unidentified flying object has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1966 - List of Kings of Burundi Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi of Burundi was deposed by his son Ntare V.
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 Mainframe computer computer.
1977 - The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean composer and conductor, were transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery.
1982 - Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party Communist Workers League (Senegal) is legally recognized.
1990 - Germany national football team wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy against Argentina.
1992 - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.
1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2003 - Sudan Airways Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old child.
2004 - Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident. United States Marine Corps officer Michael Brown is convicted on Okinawa for "attempting an indecent act" and "destruction of property" and is sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years.
2007 - Boeing 787 rolled out.
2007 - The Championships, Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 5th consecutive Wimbledon; equaling Bjorn Borg's record.
2007 - The Championships, Wimbledon, Jamie Murray becomes first British winner of Wimbledon in 20 years, when he won the Mixed Doubles event with his partner, Jelena Janković of Serbia.

Births

1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 - Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995)
1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
1917 - Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
1918 - Craig Stevens (actor), American actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
1924 - Johnnie Johnson (musician), American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer
1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician
1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss female politician, president in 2007
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 - Raffi (musician), Canadian children's entertainer
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1952 - Jack Lambert (American football player), American football player
1952 - Anna Quindlen, American columnist
1956 - Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player
1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1960 - Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1961 - Andrew Fletcher (musician), English musician (Depeche Mode)
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor
1969 - Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer
1970 - Beck, American singer
1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
1985 - Jamie Cook, Guitarist for Arctic Monkeys
1986 - Renata Aparecida da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian supermodel
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor

Deaths

810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan Mother of the Nation (b. 1893)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1979 - Michael Wilding (actor), English actor (b. 1912)
1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea (director), New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Sabine Dünser, lead singer for band Elis (band) (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle

Liturgical Feast days

Saints Abda and Sabas Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
Saint Adrian Fortescue, martyr
Saint Auspicius, bishop of Trier
Saint Bosilus, abbot
Saint Claudius and companions (Paris)
Saint Edgar (died 975)
Saint Evodius, bishop of Rouen, confessor (Translation)
Saint Grimbald, abbot, confessor GTZ: England
Saint Kilian of Würzburg, bishop, and companions (Olman, priest, and Totnam, deacon), martyrs 689
Saint Nummius, confessor as [St. Nom
Procopius of Scythopolis, martyr Osnabrück
Saint Quintinus, martyr (Invention) LeMans
Saint Theobald=Thibaut, abbot
Saints Aquila and Priscilla, martyrs Amiens
Saint Barbara (Translation)
Saint Elizabeth, queen of Portugal
Saint Landrada, virgin Mons
Saint Sunniva and companions, virgins Norway
Saint Withburge, virgin
Saint Grimbald
Saint Robertus

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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Events

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christianity soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Islam defenders mock them.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke (1609-1676) a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - France forces hold Fort Carillon against Kingdom of Great Britain at Ticonderoga, New York.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 - The Declaration of Independence (United States) was read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1859 - King Charles XV of Sweden / Charles XV of Sweden accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya, this event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
1874 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police 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.
1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador was devastated in the The Great Fire of 1892.
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1933 - NFL team Pittsburgh Steelers was established.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a Unidentified flying object has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1966 - List of Kings of Burundi Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi of Burundi was deposed by his son Ntare V.
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 Mainframe computer computer.
1977 - The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean composer and conductor, were transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery.
1982 - Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party Communist Workers League (Senegal) is legally recognized.
1990 - Germany national football team wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy against Argentina.
1992 - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.
1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2003 - Sudan Airways Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old child.
2004 - Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident. United States Marine Corps officer Michael Brown is convicted on Okinawa for "attempting an indecent act" and "destruction of property" and is sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years.
2007 - Boeing 787 rolled out.
2007 - The Championships, Wimbledon, Roger Federer wins his 5th consecutive Wimbledon; equaling Bjorn Borg's record.
2007 - The Championships, Wimbledon, Jamie Murray becomes first British winner of Wimbledon in 20 years, when he won the Mixed Doubles event with his partner, Jelena Janković of Serbia.

Births

1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 - Charles, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995)
1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
1917 - Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
1918 - Craig Stevens (actor), American actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
1924 - Johnnie Johnson (musician), American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer
1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician
1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss female politician, president in 2007
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 - Raffi (musician), Canadian children's entertainer
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1952 - Jack Lambert (American football player), American football player
1952 - Anna Quindlen, American columnist
1956 - Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player
1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1960 - Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1961 - Andrew Fletcher (musician), English musician (Depeche Mode)
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor
1969 - Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer
1970 - Beck, American singer
1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
1985 - Jamie Cook, Guitarist for Arctic Monkeys
1986 - Renata Aparecida da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian supermodel
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor

Deaths

810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan Mother of the Nation (b. 1893)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1979 - Michael Wilding (actor), English actor (b. 1912)
1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea (director), New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Sabine Dünser, lead singer for band Elis (band) (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle

Liturgical Feast days

Saints Abda and Sabas Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
Saint Adrian Fortescue, martyr
Saint Auspicius, bishop of Trier
Saint Bosilus, abbot
Saint Claudius and companions (Paris)
Saint Edgar (died 975)
Saint Evodius, bishop of Rouen, confessor (Translation)
Saint Grimbald, abbot, confessor GTZ: England
Saint Kilian of Würzburg, bishop, and companions (Olman, priest, and Totnam, deacon), martyrs 689
Saint Nummius, confessor as [St. Nom
Procopius of Scythopolis, martyr Osnabrück
Saint Quintinus, martyr (Invention) LeMans
Saint Theobald=Thibaut, abbot
Saints Aquila and Priscilla, martyrs Amiens
Saint Barbara (Translation)
Saint Elizabeth, queen of Portugal
Saint Landrada, virgin Mons
Saint Sunniva and companions, virgins Norway
Saint Withburge, virgin
Saint Grimbald
Saint Robertus

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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BBC ON THIS DAY | 8
1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack. Three young children and four adults are attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.

Move Festival, Lancashire County Cricket Ground, July 8-11 - Xfm
Now in its third year, Manchester's inner city Move festival returns to Lancashire County Cricket Ground for four days of bands this July. Last year saw memorable closing sets from ...

8 July
LGA Chief Executive's weekly column. ... This week - 8 July. Looking out at the rain soaked streets of London today, it seems like far longer than a week since I was in Bournemouth ...

Activision Blizzard formation set for July 8 // News // GamesIndustry ...
The official merger of Activision and the Vivendi games unit, including World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard, is set to c...

SOS: Newcastle, July 8
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Article | The American Prospect
Scooter Libby and Judy Miller met on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column. And Patrick Fitzgerald is very interested.

Robin Cook: The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military ...
Robin Cook The Guardian, Friday July 8 2005; I have rarely seen the Commons so full and so silent as when it met yesterday to hear ...