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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1822 –Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- 1859 –King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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