Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 8
July 8: National Day of Commemoration in Ireland (2007).
- 1709 – Great Northern War: At Poltava, Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in the Battle of Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
- 1859 – Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I.
- 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, an influential international daily newspaper, was published.
- 1947 – Various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying saucer" by United States Air Force personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 2004 – After a 19-month trial, U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown was convicted by a court in Naha, Okinawa for an attempted indecent assault on a Filipina bartender.
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