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Historical Events
on July 8th
- Lead Story
- Paris celebrates 2,000th birthday,1951
- American Revolution
- Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence,1776
- Automotive
- Suzuki settles Consumer Reports lawsuit after eight-year legal battle,2004
- Civil War
- Surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana,1863
- Cold War
- Colonel Castillo Armas takes power in Guatemala,1954
- Crime
- A spiteful son kills four in a fit of rage,1928
- Disaster
- Torrential rains cause flooding in Europe,1997
- General Interest
- The Liberty Bell rings,1776
- Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay,1853
- MacArthur named Korean commander,1950
- Pilot Francis Gary Powers charged with espionage,1960
- North Korea's "Great Leader" dies,1994
- Hollywood
- Official Oscars chef Wolfgang Puck born,1949
- Literary
- Hemingway is wounded,1918
- Music
- "Lean On Me" begins its first stay at #1,1972
- Old West
- Soapy Smith killed in Skagway, Alaska,1898
- Presidential
- Warren Harding marries Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe,1891
- Sports
- Splendid Splinter homers to win All-Star Game,1941
- Vietnam War
- First Americans killed in South Vietnam,1959
- Taylor resigns Saigon post,1965
- World War I
- Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian front,1918
- World War II
- German general's diary reveals Hitler's plans for Russia,1941
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