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Events on the 8th of July in history

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08 Jul 0951 Paris is founded
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08 Jul 1099 First Crusade: Fifteen thousand starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
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08 Jul 1283 War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
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08 Jul 1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
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08 Jul 1497 Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
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08 Jul 1551 Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren
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08 Jul 1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
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08 Jul 1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in US (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
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08 Jul 1663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
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08 Jul 1663 Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
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08 Jul 1672 Willem II becomes captain- / admiral-general
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08 Jul 1693 New York City authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
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08 Jul 1709 Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
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08 Jul 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.
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08 Jul 1716 Great Northern War: The naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
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08 Jul 1730 An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
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08 Jul 1758 English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York
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08 Jul 1758 French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
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08 Jul 1760 French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
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08 Jul 1775 The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
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08 Jul 1776 Colonel John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia)
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08 Jul 1777 Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
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08 Jul 1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
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08 Jul 1792 France declares war on Prussia
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08 Jul 1796 US State Department issues 1st American passport
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08 Jul 1797 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
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08 Jul 1800 Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
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08 Jul 1805 American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
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08 Jul 1808 Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
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08 Jul 1816 Frost in Waltham, Massachusetts
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08 Jul 1822 Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
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08 Jul 1833 Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty
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08 Jul 1835 Liberty Bell cracks (again)
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08 Jul 1836 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
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08 Jul 1838 Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
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08 Jul 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
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08 Jul 1853 U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo bay with a treaty requesting trade.
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08 Jul 1859 King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
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08 Jul 1861 CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory
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08 Jul 1861 Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked and dispersed
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08 Jul 1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
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08 Jul 1864 Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
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08 Jul 1870 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
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08 Jul 1870 Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
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08 Jul 1874 The Mounties begin their March West.
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08 Jul 1876 White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
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08 Jul 1876 White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
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08 Jul 1879 Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
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08 Jul 1889 John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
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08 Jul 1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
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08 Jul 1889 The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
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08 Jul 1891 Future President Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
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08 Jul 1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massachusetts
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08 Jul 1892 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
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08 Jul 1895 Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
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08 Jul 1896 William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Democratic Convention
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08 Jul 1897 Harbor Hospital formally opens
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08 Jul 1898 Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
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08 Jul 1898 US battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
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08 Jul 1898 The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
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08 Jul 1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
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08 Jul 1902 John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
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08 Jul 1905 Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
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08 Jul 1909 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
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08 Jul 1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
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08 Jul 1912 G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge
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08 Jul 1912 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
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08 Jul 1912 Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
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08 Jul 1919 President Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
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08 Jul 1922 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
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08 Jul 1923 Harding becomes 1st sitting President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
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08 Jul 1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen / Oostland
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08 Jul 1928 Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
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08 Jul 1932 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
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08 Jul 1932 Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire vs. Gloucs
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08 Jul 1932 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
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08 Jul 1933 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63)
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08 Jul 1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
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08 Jul 1933 The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
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08 Jul 1935 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
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08 Jul 1937 Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
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08 Jul 1939 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
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08 Jul 1941 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
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08 Jul 1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
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08 Jul 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve
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08 Jul 1943 British air raid sinks U-232
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08 Jul 1943 NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
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08 Jul 1943 US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
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08 Jul 1944 British troops march into Caen
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08 Jul 1944 Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
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08 Jul 1946 "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
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08 Jul 1946 Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
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08 Jul 1947 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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08 Jul 1947 Demolition begins for UN HQ in New York City
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08 Jul 1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
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08 Jul 1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
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08 Jul 1948 The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
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08 Jul 1949 Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for New York Giants
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08 Jul 1950 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
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08 Jul 1950 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
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08 Jul 1950 Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
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08 Jul 1950 Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
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08 Jul 1951 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and mgr Casey Stengel feud
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08 Jul 1952 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
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08 Jul 1953 US stops aid to Persia
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08 Jul 1954 KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
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08 Jul 1954 Military junta selects Colonel Armas President of Guatemala
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08 Jul 1956 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
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08 Jul 1957 Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
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08 Jul 1957 CDC incorporates
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08 Jul 1957 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
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08 Jul 1958 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore
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08 Jul 1960 Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
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08 Jul 1961 Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
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08 Jul 1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
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08 Jul 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
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08 Jul 1962 Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
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08 Jul 1963 US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
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08 Jul 1965 Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
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08 Jul 1966 US airline strike (until August 19th)
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08 Jul 1966 King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
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08 Jul 1967 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64)
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08 Jul 1967 Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games
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08 Jul 1968 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
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08 Jul 1968 The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
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08 Jul 1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
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08 Jul 1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
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08 Jul 1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
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08 Jul 1972 English Prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
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08 Jul 1972 US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
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08 Jul 1973 Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker
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08 Jul 1974 Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game
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08 Jul 1975 Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
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08 Jul 1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
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08 Jul 1976 Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break
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08 Jul 1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
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08 Jul 1978 Alessandro Pertini elected President of Italy
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08 Jul 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
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08 Jul 1979 Congo adopts constitution
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08 Jul 1979 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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08 Jul 1980 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA
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08 Jul 1980 All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds)
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08 Jul 1981 Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks / plane / steel industry in France
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08 Jul 1982 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 performances
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08 Jul 1982 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
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08 Jul 1982 Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
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08 Jul 1982 Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
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08 Jul 1983 Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title
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08 Jul 1984 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
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08 Jul 1984 Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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08 Jul 1985 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
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08 Jul 1985 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
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08 Jul 1986 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance
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08 Jul 1986 Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
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08 Jul 1987 Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
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08 Jul 1988 Miami Arena opens
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08 Jul 1988 Rockers Jonathan "Chico" andRobert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
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08 Jul 1988 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for Mayor of Detroit in 1992
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08 Jul 1990 12:34:56 on 7 / 8 / 90 (1234567890)
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08 Jul 1990 Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning
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08 Jul 1990 Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 average 23.3 mph)
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08 Jul 1990 Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7
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08 Jul 1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
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08 Jul 1991 Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins
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08 Jul 1992 Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
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08 Jul 1992 Thomas Klestil installed as President of Austria
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08 Jul 1994 Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson
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08 Jul 1994 Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
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08 Jul 1994 Whitney Houston suffers a miscarriage
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08 Jul 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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08 Jul 1995 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75)
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08 Jul 1995 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs. Sacramento Gold
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08 Jul 1997 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland
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08 Jul 1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
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08 Jul 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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08 Jul 2014 Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amidst rising tensions following the killing of Israeli teenagers.
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08 Jul 2014 Brazil loses 1-7 to Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final. The event is known as Mineirazo.
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