About July 8
July 8, 2025 is the 189th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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.
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What Happened On July 8
- 1099 –First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
- 1283 –War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought.
- 1497 –Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
- 1716 –Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
- 1758 –French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- 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.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1889 –The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1892 –St. John’s, Newfoundland is devastated in 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.
- 1912 –Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- 1947 –Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 1960 –Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- 1970 –Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
- 1982 –Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
- 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.
- 1994 –Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
- 2011 –Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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