Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 8
This is a list of selected July 8 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Our Lady of Kazan -
Joseph Bonaparte
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1497 – Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India. | featured on February 12 |
| 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1859 – Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I. | refimprove section, unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most circulated business daily newspaper, was published. | refimprove section |
| 1972 – Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad agents in response to the Lod Airport massacre. | missing ISBNs |
| 1994 – Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il became the Supreme Leader of North Korea. | unreferenced section |
| 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in STS-135, the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: An Aragonese fleet of galleys inflicted a crushing defeat on an Angevin fleet at Malta, forcing Charles I of Naples to postpone his plan to invade Sicily.
- 1709 – Great Northern War: Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
- 1758 – French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British Colony of New York.
- 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approved the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain during the Peninsular War.
- 1947 – After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel in Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance weather balloon.
- Born/died this day: Saint Kilian (d. 689) · Peter Sainthill (b. 1593) · Tzipi Livni (b. 1958)
- 1663 – King Charles II of England granted John Clarke the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described by one historian as "the grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed."
- 1879 – Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated Jeannette Expedition departed San Francisco to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait.
- 1898 – American con artist and gangster Soapy Smith (pictured) was killed in Skagway, Alaska, when an argument with fellow gang members turned into an unexpected gunfight.
- 1962 – Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese General Ne Win ordered the demolition of the school's Students Union building.
- 2014 – In response to the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers, Israel launched a military operation in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Alberto Bolognetti (b. 1538) · Käthe Kollwitz (b. 1867) · Sky Ferreira (b. 1992)