On this day in History - Jul 8

• 0810 - Pepin, King of Italy dies (b. 0773).
• 0901 - Saint Grimbald dies (b. 0827).
  
• 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.
• 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta.
• 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.
• 1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy was born (d. 1580).
• 1538 - Diego de Almagro dies (b. 1475). Spanish explorer.
• 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.
• 1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
• 1583 - Fernão Mendes Pinto dies (b. 1509). Portuguese explorer.
  
• 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.
• 1689 - Edward Wooster dies (b. 1622). English Connecticut pioneer.
• 1695 - Christiaan Huygens dies (b. 1629). Dutch scientist.
• 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.
• 1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen 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 - Robert South dies (b. 1634). English churchman.
• 1721 - Elihu Yale dies (b. 1649). American benefactor of Yale University.
• 1726 - John Ker dies (b. 1673). Scottish spy.
• 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.
• 1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey was born (d. 1842). French surgeon.
• 1770 - Pela primeira vez a declaração de Independência dos Estados Unidos é lida em Nova York na presença de George Washington.
• 1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1776 - The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is famously rung.
• 1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.
• 1784 - Torbern Olof Bergman dies (b. 1735). Swedish chemist.
• 1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen was born (d. 1854). Queen of Bavaria.
• 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.
• 1830 - Frederick William Seward was born (d. 1915). United States Assistant Secretary of State.
• 1830 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg was born (d. 1911).
• 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. First President of Portuguese Republic.
• 1850 - Prince Adolphus dies (b. 1774). 1st Duke of Cambridge.
• 1851 - Arthur Evans was born (d. 1941). English archaeologist.
• 1853 - Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay.
• 1855 - Sir William Edward Parry dies (b. 1790). English Arctic explorer.
• 1857 - Alfred Binet was born (d. 1911). French psychologist.
• 1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
• 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway dies (b. 1799).
• 1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya, this event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
• 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz was born (d. 1945). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
• 1876 - White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
• 1878 - Jimmy Quinn was born (d. 1945). Scottish footballer.
• 1882 - Percy Grainger was born (d. 1961). Australian composer.
• 1885 - Ernst Bloch was born (d. 1977). German philosopher.
• 1887 - Ben Holladay dies (b. 1819). American Businessman and founder of the Overland Stagecoach Company.
• 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.
• 1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
• 1892 - Richard Aldington was born (d. 1962). English poet.
• 1892 - Pavel Korin was born (d. 1967). Russian painter.
• 1895 - Igor Tamm was born (d. 1971). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt dies (b. 1821). Austrian scientist.
• 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• 1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• 1898 - Melville Ruick was born (d. 1972). American actor.
• 1898 - Soapy Smith dies (b. 1860). American con artist.
• 1904 - Henri Cartan was born. French mathematician.
• 1905 - Leonid Amalrik was born (d. 1997). Russian animator.
• 1905 - Walter Kittredge dies (b. 1834). American musician and composer.
• 1906 - Philip Johnson was born (d. 2005). American architect.
• 1907 - George W. Romney was boirn (d. 1995). Chairman of the American Motors Corporation (1954-62).
• 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.
• 1913 - Louis Hémon dies (b. 1880). French-born writer.
• 1914 - Billy Eckstine was born (d. 1993). American jazz singer.
• 1914 - Jyoti Basu was born. Indian politician.
• 1917 - Faye Emerson was born (d. 1983). American actress.
• 1917 - Tom Thomson dies (b. 1877). Canadian painter.
• 1918 - Craig Stevens was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1919 - Walter Scheel was born. German politician.
• 1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen was born (d. 1995). Danish industrialist (Lego Group).
• 1921 - Edgar Morin was born. French sociologist and essayst.
• 1923 - Harrison Dillard was born. American athlete .
• 1924 - Johnnie Johnson was born (d. 2005). American blues musician.
• 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.
• 1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was born (d. 2004). Swiss-born psychiatrist.
• 1927 - Maurice Hayes was born. Irish politician.
• 1929 - Artur Ivens Ferraz becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
• 1930 - Sir Joseph Ward dies (b. 1856). 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
• 1932 - Barbara Loden was born. Actress.
• 1932 - Jerry Vale was born. American singer.
• 1933 - NFL team Pittsburgh Steelers was established.
• 1933 - Antonio Lamer was born. French Canadian lawyer and chief justice.
• 1933 - Marty Feldman was born (d. 1982). English comedian and actor.
• 1933 - Anthony Hope dies (b. 1863). British author.
• 1934 - Ed Lumley was born. Canadian corporate executive and former politician.
• 1934 - Benjamin Baillaud dies (b. 1848). French astronomer.
• 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. Russian cosmonaut.
• 1939 - Havelock Ellis dies (b. 1859). British physician and psychologist.
• 1941 - Dario Gradi was born. Italian-born football manager.
• 1941 - Moses Schorr dies (b. 1874). Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist.
• 1942 - Phil Gramm was born. American politician.
• 1943 - Jean Moulin dies (b. 1899). French Resistance leader in World War II.
• 1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson was born. American musician (The Allman Brothers Band).
• 1944 - Jeffrey Tambor was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey was born. Swiss female politician, president in 2007.
• 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 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
• 1947 - Luis Fernando Figari was born. Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.
• 1947 - Kim Darby was born. American actress.
• 1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• 1948 - Raffi was born. Canadian children's entertainer.
• 1949 - Dale Hoganson wa born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1949 - Frank Delima was born. American comedian.
• 1949 - Wolfgang Puck was born. Austrian-born celebrity chef.
• 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.
• 1952 - Anna Quindlen was born. American columnist.
• 1952 - Jack Lambert was born. American NFL player.
• 1955 - Mihaela Mitrache was born. Romanian actress.
• 1956 - Terry Puhl was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1956 - Giovanni Papini dies (b. 1881). Italian essayist.
• 1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov was born. Russian television personality.
• 1957 - Carlos Cavazo was born. American musician (Quiet Riot).
• 1957 - Grace Coolidge dies (b. 1879). First Lady of the United States.
• 1958 - Andreas Carlgren was born. Swedish politician.
• 1958 - Kevin Bacon was born. American actor.
• 1958 - Neetu Singh was born. Indian actress.
• 1958 - Pauline Quirke was born. British actress.
• 1958 - Tzipi Livni was born. Israeli politician.
• 1959 - Robert Knepper was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Major Dale R. Buis dies. First U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam.
• 1960 - Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
• 1960 - Mal Meninga was born. Australian rugby league footballer.
• 1961 - Andrew Fletcher was born. Musician (Depeche Mode).
• 1961 - Toby Keith was born. American country music singer.
• 1962 - Ne Win sieged and dynamited the Ragoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
• 1962 - Joan Osborne was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1962 - Georges Bataille dies (b. 1897). French writer and philosopher.
• 1964 - Portugal: Madeira Island - Funchal Aeroport is inaugurated.
• 1964 - Alexei Gusarov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1964 - Linda de Mol was born. Dutch actress and host.
• 1965 - Lee Tergesen was born. American actor.
  
• 1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi was deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
• 1966 - Shadlog Bernicke was born. Nauruan politician.
• 1967 - Jordan Chan was born. Hong Kong actor and singer.
• 1967 - Fatima Jinnah dies (b. 1893). Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
• 1967 - Vivien Leigh dies (b. 1913). English actress.
• 1968 - Akio Suyama was born. Japanese seiyu.
• 1968 - Billy Crudup was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Michael Weatherly was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Shane Howarth was born. New Zealand/Wales rugby player.
• 1968 - Owen Meany dies. Fictional character.
• 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.
• 1969 - Sugizo was born. Japanese guitarist and singer.
• 1970 - Richard Nixon delivers special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
• 1970 - Beck was born. American singer.
• 1971 - Amanda Peterson was born. American actress.
• 1971 - John Juanda was born. Indonesian poker player.
• 1971 – Karl Dykhuis was born, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1971 - Neil Jenkins was born. Welsh rugby player.
  
• 1971 - Charlie Shavers dies (b. 1920). American jazz trumpet player.
• 1972 - Karl Dykhuis was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1972 - Saurav Ganguly was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1972 - Shōsuke Tanihara was born. Japanese actor.
• 1973 - Kathleen Robertson was born. Canadian actress.
• 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes dies (b. 1877). English cricketer.
• 1974 - Tami Erin was born. American actress and model.
• 1974 - Zhanna Friske was born. Russian actress and singer.
• 1975 - Elias Viljanen was born. Finnish guitarist.
• 1976 – David Kennedy was born. American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves).
• 1976 - Talal El Karkouri was born. Moroccan footballer.
• 1977 - The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean composer and conductor, were transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery.
• 1977 - Milo Ventimiglia was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Wang Zhizhi was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1978 - Socialist Sandro Pertini is elected President of Italy.
• 1978 - Rachel Lillis was born. American actress.
• 1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga dies (b. 1906). Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1979 - Robert B. Woodward dies (b. 1917). American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1979 - Michael Wilding dies (b. 1912). English actor.
• 1980 - First Rugby League State of Origin match between the Queensland Maroons and New South Wales Blues played at Lang Park, Brisbane.
• 1980 - State of Origin, Rugby League is born.
• 1980 - Kate Groombridge was born in Kent. English fashion model.
  
• 1980 - Robbie Keane was born. Irish footballer.
• 1981 - Anastasia Myskina was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan dies (b. 1902). American baseball player.
• 1982 - Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
• 1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
• 1982 - Jorge Blanco is proclaimed President of Dominicana Republic.
• 1982 - Hakim Warrick was born. American basketball player.
• 1982 - Joshua Alba was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Sophia Bush was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1983 - Jaroslav Janiš was born. Czech racing car driver.
• 1983 - John Bowker was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon and wins the event in just 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• 1984 - Alexis Dziena was born. American actress.
• 1984 - Claudio Sánchez Albornoz dies. Historian.
• 1985 - Jamie Cook was born. British musician (Arctic Monkeys).
• 1986 - Renata Costa was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1986 - Skeeter Webb dies (b. 1909). Baseball player.
• 1986 - Kurt Waldheim is officialy declared President of Austria.
• 1986 - Skeeter Webb dies (b. 1909). American baseball player.
• 1986 - Hyman Rickover dies (b. 1900). The "Father of the Nuclear Navy".
• 1987 - Vlada Roslyakova was born. Russian supermodel.
• 1987 - Gerardo Diego dies (b. 1896). Spanish poet.
• 1987 - Lionel Chevrier dies (b. 1903). Canadian politician.
• 1989 - Argentina: Carlos Saúl Menem é eleito Presidente da República.
• 1988 - Ray Barbuti dies (b. 1905). American athlete.
• 1990 - Germany national football team wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy against Argentina.
• 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).
• 1990 - Howard Duff dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 1991 - James Franciscus dies (b. 1934). American actor.
• 1992 - Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities.
• 1992 - Benjamin Grosvenor was born. British pianist.
• 1994 - Dick Sargent dies (b. 1930). American actor.
• 1994 - Kim Il Sung dies (b. 1912). North Korean leader.
• 1994 - Christian-Jaque dies (b. 1904). French film director and screenwriter.
• 1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad dies (b. 1927). Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer.
• 1994 - Dick Sargent dies (b.1930). American actor.
• 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.
• 1998 - Jaden Smith was born. American actor.
• 1999 - Allen Lee Davis executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. Last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.
• 1999 - Jayme Caetano Braun dies (b. 1924). Brazilian poet.
• 1999 - Pete Conrad dies (b. 1930). American astronaut.
• 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 - Patativa do Assaré dies (b. 5 Mar 1909). Brazilian popular poet and composer.
  
• 2002 - Ward Kimball dies (b. 1914). American animator.
• 2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old child.
• 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani dies (b. 1974). Iranian twins.
• 2004 - Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident. United States Marine Corps officer Michael Brown is convicted on Okinawa for "attempting an indecent act" and "destruction of property" and is sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years.
• 2004 - A Venezuela é anunciada como o mais novo parceiro do Mercosul.
• 2004 - Henrique Mendes dies (b. 1931). Portuguese TV presenter.
• 2004 - Paula Danziger dies (b. 1944). American author.
• 2004 - Jean Lefebvre dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 2006 - 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany get the 3rd place beating Portugal 3-1 in Stuttgart.
• 2006 - José Ramos Horta is appointed Prime Minister of East Timor by President Xanana Gusmao.
• 2006 - June Allyson dies (b. 1917). American actress.
• 2006 - Peter Hawkins dies (b. 1924). British actor/voice actor.
• 2006 - Sabine Dünser dies (b. 1977). Lead singer for band Elis.
• 2007 - Boeing 787 rolled out.
• 2008 - John Templeton dies (b. 1912). British businessman and philanthropist.
• Portugal: Municipal holyday in Chaves / Feriado Municipal de Chaves.
• Portugal: Municipal holyday in Amarante / Feriado Municipal de Amarante.
• Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle.