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July 8 Birthdays




Rockefeller
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1839

BIRTHPLACE
Richford, NY

DEATH DATE
May 23, 1937 (age 97)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




John Pemberton
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1831

BIRTHPLACE
Knoxville, GA

DEATH DATE
Aug 16, 1888 (age 57)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1838

BIRTHPLACE
Konstanz, Germany

DEATH DATE
Mar 8, 1917 (age 78)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Joan Osborne
COUNTRY SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1962

BIRTHPLACE
Anchorage, KY

AGE
56 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Beck
ROCK SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1970

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
48 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Toby Keith
COUNTRY SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1961

BIRTHPLACE
Clinton, OK

AGE
57 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Marty Feldman
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1934

BIRTHPLACE
England

DEATH DATE
Dec 2, 1982 (age 48)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Jeffrey Tambor
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1944

BIRTHPLACE
San Francisco, CA

AGE
74 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Michael Weatherly
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1968

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

AGE
50 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Kevin Bacon
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1958

BIRTHPLACE
Philadelphia, PA

AGE
60 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




George W. Romney
POLITICIAN

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1907

BIRTHPLACE
Mexico

DEATH DATE
Jul 26, 1995 (age 88)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Nelson Rockefeller
POLITICIAN

BIRTHDAY
July 8, 1908

BIRTHPLACE
Bar Harbor, ME

DEATH DATE
Jan 26, 1979 (age 70)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

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July 8 Deaths





Howard Duff
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
November 24, 1913

BIRTHPLACE
Washington

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 1990 (age 76)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




Grace Coolidge
POLITICAL WIFE

BIRTHDAY
January 3, 1879

BIRTHPLACE
Burlington, VT

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 1957 (age 78)

BIRTH SIGN
Capricorn



Dick Sargent
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
April 19, 1930

BIRTHPLACE
Carmel By The Sea, CA

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 1994 (age 64)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries




Betty Ford
POLITICAL WIFE

BIRTHDAY
April 8, 1918

BIRTHPLACE
Chicago, IL

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 2011 (age 93)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries



Vivien Leigh
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
November 5, 1913

BIRTHPLACE
Darjeeling, India

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 1967 (age 53)

BIRTH SIGN
Scorpio




Ernest Borgnine
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
January 24, 1917

BIRTHPLACE
Hamden, CT

DEATH DATE
Jul 8, 2012 (age 95)

BIRTH SIGN
Aquarius

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Historical Events on July 8


1776  Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia

Engrossed copy of the United States
Declaration of Independence

1777  Vermont introduces new constitution making it the 1st US state to abolish slavery

1778  George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army

1800  Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox

1836  Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon

Naturalist
Charles Darwin

1861  Confederate General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory

1898  The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip

1913  Alfred Carlton Gilbert's patent for the Erector Set is issued, it becomes one of the most popular toys of all time

Inventor
Alfred Carlton Gilbert

1915  The Germans reply to US President Woodrow Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands

28th US President
Woodrow Wilson

1923  Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)

29th US President
Warren G. Harding

1932  Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22

1943  4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve

1943  Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (Dutch National Socialist Movement) leader Anton Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS
Heinrich Himmler

1944  British troops march into Caen, Normandy

1944  Japanese kamikaze attacks on US lines at Saipan

1947  Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico

1949  The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa

1950  General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea

US WWII General
Douglas MacArthur

1950  Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea

1963  US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba

1966  US airline strike (until Aug 19th)

1968  Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal

1969  US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

1975  Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West Germany

5th Prime Minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin

1975  US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican presidential nomination

38th US President
Gerald Ford

1979  Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

1981  Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)

1987  Kitty Dukakis reveals an addiction to amphetamines for 26 years

1994  Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson

NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
O.J. Simpson

2011  Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program

2014  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to "take their gloves off" against Hamas and to take any means necessary to "restore peace" to Israeli citizens

2018  Four boys are the first to be rescued after 16 days, from Tham Luang cave, Thailand, by Thai and international rescue team

2018  British Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns in a stand against Theresa May's new softer Brexit policy