On this day in History - Jul 08

• 0810 - Pepin, King of Italy dies (b. 0773)
• 0975 - King Edgar of England dies
• 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
• 1153 - Pope Eugene III dies
• 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India. A frota comandada por Vasco da Gama parte de Lisboa em direcção à Índia. A Marinha Portuguesa comemora o seu dia nesta data
• 1545 - Don Carlos of Spain, was born (d. 1568). Son of Philip II of Spain.
• 1577 - Morte de D. Maria - filha de D. Duarte (duque de Guimarães) e D. Isabel
• 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi was born (d. 1651). Italian painter.
• 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine was born (d. 1695). French writer.
• 1623 - Pope Gregory XV dies (b. 1554)
• 1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
• 1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America killed a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1695 - Christiaan Huygens dies (b. 1629). Dutch scientist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1760 - Christian Kramp was born (d. 1826). French mathematician.
• 1770 - Pela primeira vez a declaração de Independência dos Estados Unidos é lida em Nova York na presença de George Washington.
• 1784 - Torbern Olof Bergman dies. Swedish chemist.
• 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, was born (d. 1907). British naval officer and explorer.
• 1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
• 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley dies (b. 1792). English poet.
• 1826 - Luther Martin dies (b. 1748). One of the founding fathers of the United States.
• 1832 - Portugal: O exército liberal sob o comando do regente D. Pedro, desembarca na praia de Arnosa do Pampelido, perto do Mindelo.
• 1833 - Tratado Russo-Turco de Unkiar-Skellessi. A passagem dos Dardanelos é proibida aos barcos de todas os países, com excepção dos russos.
• 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain was born (d. 1914). British politician.
• 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin was born (d. 1917). German inventor.
• 1839 - John D. Rockefeller was born (d. 1937). American businessman and philanthropist.
• 1840 - Manuel de Arriaga was born. Firts President of Portuguese Republic.
• 1850 - Prince Adolphus dies (b. 1774). 1st Duke of Cambridge.
• 1851 - Arthur Evans was born (d. 1941). English archaeologist.
• 1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
• 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway dies (b. 1799)
• 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz was born (d. 1945). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1882 - Percy Grainger was born (d. 1961). Australian composer.
• 1885 - Ernst Bloch was born (d. 1977). German philosopher.
• 1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
• 1889 - During the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
• 1889 - Damião Peres was born. Portuguese historian.
• 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech, Chicago.
• 1904 - Henri Cartan was born. French mathematician
• 1905 - Walter Kittredge dies (b. 1834). American musician and composer.
• 1908 - Louis Jordan was born (d. 1975). American singer and saxophonist.
• 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was born (d. 1979). Vice President of the United States.
• 1917 - Tom Thomson dies (b. 1877). Canadian painter.
• 1918 - Craig Stevens was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1919 - Walter Scheel, was born. German politician.
• 1921 - Edgar Morin was born. French sociologist and essayst.
• 1923 - Harrison Dillard was born. American athlete .
• 1925 - Nasce em Santarém Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão . Historiador e professor universitário português. Veríssimo Serrão é membro da Academia de Ciencias de Lisboa, da Academia Portuguesa de Historia, da Academia Brasileira de Letras e de muitas outras organizações de prestígio internacional como a Real Academia de História de Espanha.
• 1926 - Em Portugal, golpe de estado depõe o general Gomes da Costa do seu cargo de Presidente da República.
• 1929 - Artur Ivens Ferraz assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1932 - Barbara Loden was born. Actress
• 1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
• 1933 - Marty Feldman was born (d. 1982). English comedian and actor.
• 1933 - Anthony Hope dies (b. 1863). British author.
• 1935 - Steve Lawrence was born. American entertainer and singer : Go Away Little Girl, Party Doll, Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love; songwriter: Two on the Aisle;
• 1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov was born. Cosmonaut
• 1939 - Havelock Ellis dies (b. 1859). British physician and psychologist.
• 1941 - Dario Gradi was born. Italian-born football manager
• 1942 - Phil Gramm was born. American politician
• 1943 - Jean Moulin dies (b. 1899). French Resistance leader in World War II.
• 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey was born. Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 1946 - Actress Ava Gardner divorced bandleader Artie Shaw on this day; not quite a year after they were married.
• 1946 -Toquinho was born. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1947 - Kim Darby was born. American actress
• 1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
• 1950 - Othmar Spann dies (b. 1878). Austrian philosopher and economist.
• 1951 - Anjelica Huston was born. American Academy Award-winning actress: Prizzi’s Honor [1985]; The Witches, The Grifters, The Addams Family .
• 1956 - Giovanni Papini dies. Italiam writer.
• 1957 - Grace Coolidge dies (b. 1879). First Lady of the United States.
• 1958 - Kevin Bacon was born. American actor
• 1959 - Major Dale R. Buis dies. First U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam .
• 1961 - Andy Fletcher was born. Musician (Depeche Mode)
• 1961 - Toby Keith was born. American country music singer
• 1964 - Portugal: Madeira Island - Funchal Aeroport is inaugurated.
• 1968 - Billy Crudup was born. American actor
• 1968 - Owen Meany dies. Fictional character.
• 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
• 1970 - Beck was born. American singer
• 1972 - Saurav Ganguly was born. Indian cricketer
• 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes dies (b. 1877). English cricketer.
• 1975 - Kathleen Robertson was born. Canadian actress
• 1977 - Wang Zhizhi was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1978 - O socialista Sandro Pertini é eleito presidente da República Italiana.
• 1980 - Robbie Keane was born. Irish footballer
• 1980 - State of Origin, Rugby League is born
• 1981 - Anastasia Myskina, was born. Russian tennis player
• 1982 - Hakim Warrick, was born. American basketball player.
• 1982 - Jorge Blanco é proclamado presidente da República Dominicana.
• 1984 - Claudio Sánchez Albornoz dies. Historian
• 1984 - John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon and wins the event in just 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• 1986 - Skeeter Webb, dies (b. 1909). Baseball player.
• 1986- Kurt Waldheim é declarado oficialmente presidente de Áustria.
• 1986 - Morre Hyman Rickover, criador da armada nuclear dos Estados Unidos.
• 1987 - Gerardo Diego dies. Poet.
• 1989 - Argentina: Carlos Saúl Menem é eleito Presidente da República.
• 1988 - Ray Barbuti, dies (b. 1905). American athlete.
• 1990 - Howard Duff, dies. Actor.
• 1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56
• 1990 - Morre Amélia Rey Colaço (n. 2 Mar 1898). Dedicou toda a vida ao teatro. Actriz, encenadora e empresária fundou, com o actor Robles Monteiro, a sua própria companhia de teatro (a companhia Rey Colaço-Robles Monteiro), que duraria cerca de 53 anos. A (ex) Escola Secundária de Belém/Algés, Lisboa, passou a partir de 1-9-1999 a ter o seu nome ( Escola Secundária Amélia Rey Colaço, Alto de Santa Catarina, Oeiras).
• 1994 - Kim Il Sung dies (b. 1912). North Korean leader.
• 1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "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 executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. Last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.
• 2000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.
• 2001 - John O'Shea dies (b. 1920). New Zealand director.
• 2002 - Ward Kimball dies (b. 1914). American animator.
• 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani dies (b. 1974). Iranian twins.
• 2004 - Paula Danziger dies (b. 1944). American author.
• 2004 - A Venezuela é anunciada como o mais novo parceiro do Mercosul
• 2004 - Henrique Mendes dies. Portuguese TV presenter.
• 2006 - 2006 FIFA World Cup the match for the 3td place Germany-Portugal will take place, commencing at 9 pm in Stuttgart, Germany.
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal de Chaves.
• Dia da Marinha.
• Dia de Santo Eugénio, beato