July 08

Saturday 08, 2000:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.

Thursday 08, 1999:

Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. That is the last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.

Tuesday 08, 1997:

NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

Sunday 08, 1990:

1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.

Thursday 08, 1982:

Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.

Tuesday 08, 1980:

State of Origin, Rugby League is born.

Tuesday 08, 1969:

IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.

Friday 08, 1966:

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi was deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

Tuesday 08, 1947:

Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

Friday 08, 1932:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.

Wednesday 08, 1896:

William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech in Chicago, Illinois.

Friday 08, 1892:

St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.

Monday 08, 1889:

At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.

Friday 08, 1859:

King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

Monday 08, 1822:

Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

Monday 08, 1776:

The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.

Saturday 08, 1775:

The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

Tuesday 08, 1760:

British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.

Saturday 08, 1758:

French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.

Wednesday 08, 1716:

Battle of Dynekilen

Monday 08, 1709:

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.

Monday 08, 1680:

The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sunday 08, 1663:

Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.

Thursday 08, 1497:

Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.

Thursday 08, 1283:

Battle of Malta

Saturday 08, 1099:

First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.

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