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 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 25, 2023 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,688,774,400 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 ‘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 217 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 3,851 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.
- 1822 –Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- 1859 –King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1864 –Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi’s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
- 1889 –The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1932 –The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
- 1966 –King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
Who were born on July 8?
- 1621 –Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
- 1917 –Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1942 –Janice Pennington, American game show model
- 1945 –Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician
- 1968 –Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
- 1970 –Beck, American singer
- 1974 –Tami Erin, American actress and model
- 1975 –Elias Viljanen, Finnish guitarist (Sonata Arctica)
- 1978 –Rachael Lillis, American actress
- 1992 –Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
Who died on July 8?
- 975 –Edgar the Peaceful, King of England (b. 943)
- 1689 –Edward Wooster, English-born Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
- 1695 –Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist (b. 1629)
- 1716 –Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
- 1939 –Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
- 1941 –Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
- 1987 –Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
- 1988 –Ray Barbuti, American middle distance runner and football player (b. 1905)
- 2005 –Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
- 2011 –Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
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