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, 477,888 hours 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
- 1497 –Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
- 1758 –French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1775 –The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1808 –Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
- 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.
- 1907 –Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 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.
Who were born on July 8?
- 1830 –Frederick William Seward, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
- 1830 –Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (d. 1911)
- 1885 –Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
- 1962 –Carmen Nicole Moelders American atmospheric scientist
- 1968 –Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
- 1968 –Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player (also capped by Wales)
- 1968 –Thom Fitzgerald, American-Canadian film director
- 1972 –Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
- 1977 –Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
- 1982 –Joshua Alba, American actor
Who died on July 8?
- 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)
- 1721 –Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
- 1826 –Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
- 1913 –Louis Hémon, French-born Canadian writer (b. 1880)
- 1917 –Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
- 1962 –Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
- 1979 –Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
- 1987 –Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
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