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
- 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.
- 1579 –Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 1879 –Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 –Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
- 1947 –Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 1948 –The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- 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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