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 190th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 25, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,720,396,800 seconds 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 ‘hectaenneacontagon’ day.
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 205 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 4,217 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 8 Historical Events
- 1663 –Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
- 1775 –The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1874 –The Mounties begin their March West.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1889 –The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1907 –Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 1912 –Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- 1948 –The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- 1962 –Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
- 1966 –King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
Who were born on July 8?
- 1545 –Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
- 1895 –Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- 1914 –Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
- 1947 –Kim Darby, American actress
- 1956 –Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player
- 1958 –Neetu Singh, Indian actress
- 1964 –Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
- 1968 –Billy Crudup, American actor
- 1982 –Sophia Bush, American actress
- 1998 –Jaden Smith, American actor
Who died on July 8?
- 1153 –Pope Eugene III (b. c. 1087)
- 1695 –Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist (b. 1629)
- 1822 –Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- 1826 –Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
- 1887 –Ben Holladay, American businessman and founder of the Overland Stagecoach Company (b. 1819)
- 1917 –Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
- 1971 –Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
- 1979 –Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
- 1981 –Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
- 1999 –Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
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