What are the important events that happened on July 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 8 is the 189th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 25, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,198,880 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontaenneagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac 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 224 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,582 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 8 Historical Events
- 1099 –First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
- 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.
- 1758 –French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1864 –Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi’s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 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 crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 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.
Who were born on July 8?
- 1892 –Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
- 1895 –Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- 1944 –Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
- 1958 –Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
- 1966 –Ralf Altmeyer, German virologist
- 1969 –Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer (Luna Sea)
- 1970 –Beck, American singer
- 1974 –Tami Erin, American actress and model
- 1981 –Iyari Limon, American actress
- 1988 –Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist
Who died on July 8?
- 1784 –Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
- 1826 –Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
- 1859 –King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
- 1887 –Ben Holladay, American businessman and founder of the Overland Stagecoach Company (b. 1819)
- 1898 –Soapy Smith, American con artist and gangster (b. 1860)
- 1917 –Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
- 1941 –Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
- 1973 –Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1994 –Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2011 –Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
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