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.
- 1579 –Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
- 1663 –Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
- 1716 –Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
- 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.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1879 –Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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