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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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
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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