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The 8t o Julie is the 189t day o the year (190t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 176 days ti come.
Events 2008 : Surtsey becomes a Warld Heritage Steid2011 : Last Space Shuttle launch2014: Germany players celebratin Miroslav Klose's goal against Brazil 1497 - Portuguese splorer Vasco da Gama sets sail on his voyage tae Indie . 1730 - A magnitude 7.8 yirdquauk causes a tsunami in Chile , killin 1,000 fowk. 1889 - The Wall Street Journal is first published. 1927 - Rain in the nicht tae 9 Julie causes floods in Saxony , Germany , which kill 160 fowk.1986 - Kurt Waldheim becomes Preses o Austrick . 1989 - Carlos Menem becomes Preses o Argentinae . 1990 - Wast Germany wins the FIFA Warld Cup for a 3rd time, defeatin Argentinae 1-0 in the final in Italy . 1992 - Thomas Klestil becomes Preses o Austrick . 1994 - North Korean leader Kim Il-sung dees. Kim Jong-il taks over.1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic , Hungary an Poland tae jyn.1999 - The novel Harry Potter an the Preesoner o Azkaban bi J. K. Rowling gaes on sale in the Unitit Kinrick .2004 - Heinz Fischer becomes Preses o Austrick .2005 - The G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland , ends.2007 - Tennis : Roger Federer defeats Rafael Nadal tae win his 5t consecutive Wimbledon Championships singles teetle.2008 - The volcanic island o Surtsey in Iceland becomes a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid.2010 - Poland haes three Heids o State in a seengle day.2011 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the final Space Shuttle mission.2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip efter the murthers o three Israeli teenagers. 2014 - Brazil 1-7 Germany in 2014 FIFA Warld Cup : Several Warld Cup records are set in the FIFA Warld Cup semi-feenal match in Belo Horizonte , Brazil , incluidin Miroslav Klose settin the competeetion's goal-scorin record. 2016 - The New European, a new Breetish pro-European newspaper, publishes its first edeetion in response tae the Brexit vote. 2018 - David Davis propales his demission as the Unitit Kinrick 's Secretar o State for Brexit . 2019 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis succeeds Alexis Tsipras as Prime meenister o Greece . 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 12 million. Births Anjelica Huston Robbie Keane 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian penter (d. 1656) 1621 - Jean de La Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695) 1831 - John Pemberton , American pharmacist, inventor o Coca-Cola (d. 1888)1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin , German airship builder (d. 1917 ) 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (d. 1937 )1878 - Jimmy Quinn , Scots fitbawer (d. 1945 ) 1884 - Bernard Haigh, Scots mechanical ingineer (d. 1819) 1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Roushie pheesicist (d. 1984)1895 - Igor Tamm , Roushie pheesicist (d. 1971)1908 - Nelson Rockefeller , 41st Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1979)1910 - Jimmy Littlejohn, Scots fitbawer (d. 1988)1919 - Walter Scheel , 4t Preses o Wast Germany (d. 2016)1930 - John Little, Scots fitbawer (d. 2017)1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politeecian1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress 1958 - Kevin Bacon , American actor an muisicker 1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politeecian 1970 - Beck , American sangster 1977 - Christian Abbiati , Italian fitbawer 1977 - Milo Ventimiglia , American actor an director 1980 - Robbie Keane , Erse fitbawer 1981 - Anastasia Myskina , Roushie tennis player 1991 - Virgil van Dijk, Dutch fitbawer 1992 - Son Heung-min, Sooth Korean fitbawer 1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor an rapperDaiths 1636 - John Hepburn, Scots sodger (b. 1598) 1695 - Christiaan Huygens , Dutch mathematician an pheesicist (b. 1629) 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Inglis poet (b. 1792) 1832 - Henry Raeburn, Scots penter (b. 1756)1859 - Oscar I o Swaden (b. 1798) 1889 - Walter Montgomerie Neilson, Scots ingineer (b. 1819) 1979 - Sin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese pheesicist (b. 1906 ) 1985 - Simon Kuznets, Roushie-American economist (b. 1901 ) 1994 - Kim Il-sung , leader o North Korea (b. 1912 )2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1918 )2012 - Ernest Borgnine , American actor (b. 1917 )2016 - Jackie McInally, Scots fitbawer (b. 1936 ) 2018 - Alan Gilzean , Scots fitbawer (b. 1938 ) Halidays