History Events on July 08

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).

#United_States_Air_Force

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

The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.

#Olive_Branch_Petition

An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.

#1730_Valparaíso_earthquake

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

#Battle_of_Restigouche

Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

#Francis_Gary_Powers

Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

#Kim_Jong-il

Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

#Unidentified_flying_object

The Mounties begin their March West.

#Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police

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

#Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.

#Mossad

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

#Space_Shuttle_Atlantis

Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.

#USS_Jeannette_(1878)

The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

#Soapy_Smith

French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.

#Fort_Carillon

Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.

#Ne_Win

Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.

#Joseph_Bonaparte

The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.

#Rugby_union

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

#Vasco_da_Gama

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

#Charles_II_of_England

Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.

#Roger_of_Lauria

Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

#Israel

Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.

#Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1099)

Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.

#Henrique_Mitchell_de_Paiva_Couceiro

Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.

#Iraq

The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.

#Perry_Expedition

The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.

#Battle_of_Dynekilen

Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing all 117 people on board.

#Sudan_Airways_Flight_139

Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.

#Peter_the_Great

Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

#Liberty_Bell

Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

#Our_Lady_of_Kazan

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

#St._John's,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.

The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20-10 at Lang Park.

The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.

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

Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.

Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.

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

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