8 Julie

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The 8t o Julie is the 189t day o the year (190t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 176 days ti come.

Events

1497 - Portuguese splorer Vasco da Gama sets sail on his voyage tae Indie.
1730 - A magnitude 7.8 yirdquauk causes a tsunami in Chile, killin 1,000 fowk.
1889 - The Wall Street Journal is first published.
1927 - Rain in the nicht tae 9 Julie causes floods in Saxony, Germany, which kill 160 fowk.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim becomes Preses o Austrick.
1989 - Carlos Menem becomes Preses o Argentinae.
1990 - Wast Germany wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a 3rd time, defeatin Argentinae 1-0 in the final in Italy.
1992 - Thomas Klestil becomes Preses o Austrick.
1994 - North Korean leader Kim Il-sung dees. Kim Jong-il taks over.
1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary an Poland tae jyn.
1999 - The novel Harry Potter an the Preesoner o Azkaban bi J. K. Rowling gaes on sale in the Unitit Kinrick.
2004 - Heinz Fischer becomes Preses o Austrick.
2005 - The G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, ends.
2007 - Tennis: Roger Federer defeats Rafael Nadal tae win his 5t consecutive Wimbledon Championships singles teetle.
2008 - The volcanic island o Surtsey in Iceland becomes a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid.
2010 - Poland haes three Heids o State in a seengle day.
2011 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the final Space Shuttle mission.
2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip efter the murthers o three Israeli teenagers.
2014 - Brazil 1-7 Germany in 2014 FIFA Warld Cup: Several Warld Cup records are set in the FIFA Warld Cup semi-feenal match in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, incluidin Miroslav Klose settin the competeetion's goal-scorin record.
2016 - The New European, a new Breetish pro-European newspaper, publishes its first edeetion in response tae the Brexit vote.
2018 - David Davis propales his demission as the Unitit Kinrick's Secretar o State for Brexit.
2019 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis succeeds Alexis Tsipras as Prime meenister o Greece.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 12 million.

Births

1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian penter (d. 1656)
1621 - Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1831 - John Pemberton, American pharmacist, inventor o Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German airship builder (d. 1917)
1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (d. 1937)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scots fitbawer (d. 1945)
1884 - Bernard Haigh, Scots mechanical ingineer (d. 1819)
1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Roushie pheesicist (d. 1984)
1895 - Igor Tamm, Roushie pheesicist (d. 1971)
1908 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1979)
1910 - Jimmy Littlejohn, Scots fitbawer (d. 1988)
1919 - Walter Scheel, 4t Preses o Wast Germany (d. 2016)
1930 - John Little, Scots fitbawer (d. 2017)
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politeecian
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor an muisicker
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politeecian
1970 - Beck, American sangster
1977 - Christian Abbiati, Italian fitbawer
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor an director
1980 - Robbie Keane, Erse fitbawer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Roushie tennis player
1991 - Virgil van Dijk, Dutch fitbawer
1992 - Son Heung-min, Sooth Korean fitbawer
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor an rapper

Daiths

1636 - John Hepburn, Scots sodger (b. 1598)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician an pheesicist (b. 1629)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Inglis poet (b. 1792)
1832 - Henry Raeburn, Scots penter (b. 1756)
1859 - Oscar I o Swaden (b. 1798)
1889 - Walter Montgomerie Neilson, Scots ingineer (b. 1819)
1979 - Sin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese pheesicist (b. 1906)
1985 - Simon Kuznets, Roushie-American economist (b. 1901)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, leader o North Korea (b. 1912)
2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
2016 - Jackie McInally, Scots fitbawer (b. 1936)
2018 - Alan Gilzean, Scots fitbawer (b. 1938)

Halidays