8 July
Notable Births
İpek Öz
b. 1999
Turkish tennis player (born 1999)
Maya Hawke
b. 1998
American actress and singer (born 1998)
Jaden Smith
b. 1998
American rapper and actor (born 1998)
Bryce Love
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Marlon Humphrey
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
David Corenswet
b. 1993
American actor (born 1993)
Ariel Camacho
b. 1992
Mexican musician (1992–2015)
Son Heung-min
b. 1992
South Korean footballer (born 1992)
Virgil van Dijk
b. 1991
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Kevin Trapp
b. 1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Yarden Gerbi
b. 1989
Israeli judoka (born 1989)
Miki Roqué
b. 1988
Spanish footballer (1988–2012)
Jesse Sergent
b. 1988
New Zealand racing cyclist
Josh Harrison
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Renata Costa
b. 1986
Brazilian footballer
John Bowker (baseball)
b. 1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Rich Peverley
b. 1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Sophia Bush
b. 1982
American actress (born 1982)
Alfred Binet
b. 1857
French psychologist, IQ test developer (1857–1911)
Artemisia Gentileschi
b. 1593
Italian painter (born 1593)
Notable Deaths
Edward D. DiPrete
d. 2025
American politician (1934–2025)
Paulette Jiles
d. 2025
American writer (1943–2025)
Shinzo Abe
d. 2022
Prime Minister of Japan (2006–2007; 2012–2020)
Larry Storch
d. 2022
American actor (1923–2022)
Luis Echeverría
d. 2022
President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976
Tony Sirico
d. 2022
American actor (1942–2022)
Naya Rivera
d. 2020
American actress and singer (1987–2020)
Alex Pullin
d. 2020
Australian snowboarder (1987–2020)
Tab Hunter
d. 2018
American actor, singer, film producer, and author (1931–2018)
Abdul Sattar Edhi
d. 2016
Pakistani philanthropist (1928-2016)
Ken Stabler
d. 2015
American football player (1945–2015)
James Tate (writer)
d. 2015
American poet
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
d. 2014
Brazilian politician
John Evans (Idaho politician)
d. 2014
American politician
Tom Veryzer
d. 2014
American baseball player (1953–2014)
Dick Gray
d. 2013
American baseball player (1931–2013)
Sundri Uttamchandani
d. 2013
Indian writer of Sindhi language
Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud
d. 2012
Saudi royal and politician (1934–2012)
Ray Barbuti
d. 1988
American football player and sprint runner (1905–1988)
Christiaan Huygens
d. 1695
Dutch mathematician and physicist (1629–1695)
On This Day in History
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2022
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot and killed with an improvised firearm due to resentment against the Unification Church.
Shinzo Abe
2014
Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
Israel
2014
The Brazil national football team suffers its joint-worst defeat, losing 7–1 to Germany in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup, in a match dubbed the Mineiraço.
Brazil national football team
2011
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
2003
Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
Sudan Airways Flight 139
1994
Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung.
Kim Jong Il
1994
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on an international science mission.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1990
West Germany win the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.
Germany national football team
1988
The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
Island Express (train)
1982
A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
Dujail massacre
1980
The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.
1980 State of Origin game
1980
Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan), killing all 166 people on board.
Aeroflot Flight 4225
1972
Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
Mossad
1970
Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
Richard Nixon
1968
The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
1966
King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
List of kings of Burundi
1965
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 is destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21
1962
Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
Ne Win
1960
Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
Francis Gary Powers
1948
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).
United States Air Force