About July 8
July 8, 2023 is the 189th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 217 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.
- 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.
- 1663 –Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
- 1758 –French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1760 –French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1966 –King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
- 1982 –Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
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