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July 8 leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 176 days remaining.
Events
1099 - First Crusade : 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.1283 - Battle of Malta 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India .1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island .1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts .1709 - 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 - Battle of Dynekilen 1758 - French and Indian War : French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York .1760 - French and Indian War : Battle of the Ristigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France .1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies .1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress .1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom .1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway .1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal 1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
1892 - St. John's , Newfoundland was devastated in the Great Fire of 1892 .1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech in Chicago, Illinois .1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression , bottoming out at 41.22.1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico .1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi was deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi .1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.1980 - State of Origin, Rugby League is born.1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting rug "fen-phen " can cause severe heart and lung damage.1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic , Hungary , and Poland to join the alliance in 1999 .
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida . That is the last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida .2000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling 's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
Births
1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580 )1545 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (d. 1568 )1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi , Italian painter (d. 1653 )1621 - Jean de la Fontaine , French writer (d. 1695 )1760 - Christian Kramp , French mathematician (d. 1826 )1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey , French surgeon (d. 1842 )1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock , British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907 )1836 - Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (d. 1914 )1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin , German inventor (d. 1917 )1839 - John D. Rockefeller , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1937 )1851 - Arthur Evans , English archaeologist (d. 1941 )1867 - Käthe Kollwitz , German painter and graphic artist (d. 1945 )1878 - Jimmy Quinn , Scottish footballer (d. 1945 )1882 - Percy Grainger , Australian composer (d. 1961 )1885 - Ernst Bloch , German philosopher (d. 1977 )1892 - Richard Aldington , English poet (d. 1962 )1895 - Igor Tamm , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )1904 - Henri Cartan , French mathematician1906 - Philip Johnson , American architect (d. 2005 )1908 - Louis Jordan , American singer and saxophonist (d. 1975 )1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller , Vice President of the United States (d. 1979 )1914 - Billy Eckstine , American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1993 )1914 - Jyoti Basu , Indian politician1918 - Craig Stevens , American actor (d. 2000 )1919 - Walter Scheel , German politician1923 - Harrison Dillard , American athlete1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004 )1932 - Jerry Vale , American singer1933 - Marty Feldman , English comedian and actor (d. 1982 )1935 - Steve Lawrence , American entertainer and singer1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov , cosmonaut1941 - Dario Gradi , Italian-born football manager1942 - Phil Gramm , American politician1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey , member of the Swiss Federal Council1947 - Kim Darby , American actress1951 - Anjelica Huston , American actress1958 - Kevin Bacon , American actor1961 - Toby Keith , American country music singer1968 - Billy Crudup , American actor1970 - Beck , American singer1972 - Saurav Ganguly , Indian cricketer1974 - Hallveig Runarsdottir, Icelandic opera singer1975 - Kathleen Robertson , Canadian actress1977 - Wang Zhizhi , Chinese basketball player1980 - Robbie Keane , Irish footballer1981 - Anastasia Myskina , Russian tennis player1982 - Hakim Warrick , American basketball player1984 - Alexis Dziena , American actress1989 - Matthew Kershaw, British Novelist, Inventor of the Carrot and Left Wing Activist
Deaths
810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773 )975 - King Edgar of England 1153 - Pope Eugene III 1538 - Diego de Almagro , Spanish explorer (b. 1475 )1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554 )1689 - Edward Wooster , English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622 )1695 - Christiaan Huygens , Dutch scientist (b. 1629 )1716 - Robert South , English churchman (b. 1634 )1721 - Elihu Yale , American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649 )1726 - John Ker , Scottish spy (b. 1673 )1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley , English poet (b. 1792 )1826 - Luther Martin , one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (b. 1748 )1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774 )1855 - Sir William Edward Parry , British admiral and Arctic explorer (b. 1790 )1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799 )1905 - Walter Kittredge , American musician and composer (b. 1834 )1917 - Tom Thomson , Canadian painter (b. 1877 )1933 - Anthony Hope , British author (b. 1863 )1934 - Benjamin Baillaud , French astronomer (b. 1848 )1939 - Havelock Ellis , British physician and psychologist (b. 1859 )1943 - Jean Moulin , French Resistance leader (b. 1899 )1950 - Othmar Spann , Austrian philosopher and economist (b. 1878 )1957 - Grace Coolidge , First Lady of the United States (b. 1879 )1973 - Wilfred Rhodes , English cricketer (b. 1877 )1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )1979 - Robert B. Woodward , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )
1986 - Skeeter Webb , baseball player (b. 1909 )1988 - Ray Barbuti , American athlete (b. 1905 )1990 - Howard Duff , American actor (b. 1913 )1994 - Kim Il Sung , North Korean leader (b. 1912 )1999 - Pete Conrad , American astronaut (b. 1930 )2001 - John O'Shea , New Zealand film director (b. 1920 )2002 - Ward Kimball , American animator (b. 1914 )2004 - Paula Danziger , American author (b. 1944 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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