July 8: Day Of The Week

July 8, 2013 is the 189th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 8 Historical Events

  • 1099
    First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
  • 1716
    Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
  • 1808
    Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
  • 1822
    Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
  • 1859
    King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
  • 1879
    Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
  • 1892
    St. John’s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
  • 1896
    William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • 1912
    Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
  • 1962
    Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.

Who were born on July 8?

  • 1792
    Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
  • 1819
    Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
  • 1885
    Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
  • 1914
    Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010)
  • 1918
    Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
  • 1935
    Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
  • 1963
    Mark Christopher, American film director
  • 1968
    Billy Crudup, American actor
  • 1977
    Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
  • 1988
    Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist

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