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Events on July 8

• 1497 Vasco da Gama leaves the port of Restelo near Lisbon with four ships in order to find the sea route to India.
• 1776 During the first public reading of the American Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell is also rung in Philadelphia.
• 1889 The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
• 1928 The airship LZ 127 is christened Graf Zeppelin.
• 1936 For the first time, an aircraft, a Ju 52, lands at the Rhein-Main airfield and seaplane port. This is regarded as the opening of the airport.
• 1952 The first zebra crossings in Germany are laid out for pedestrians in Munich.
• 1990 In Rome, Germany becomes world champion for the third time with a 1:0 victory over Argentina in the final of the FIFA World Cup.
• 1995 Steffi Graf wins the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the sixth time.
• 2000 In Great Britain, the sale of the fourth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, begins with more than 370,000 copies on its publication day.
• 2006 In the match for 3rd place at the 2006 World Cup, the German national football team defeats Portugal 3:1 in Stuttgart. Oliver Kahn plays his 86th and final international match for the German national team.
• 2011 The space shuttle Atlantis is launched into space for the final time.
• 2014 In the semifinal of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the German national football team defeats Brazil 7:1 in Belo Horizonte. Miroslav Klose becomes the new record goalscorer at the World Cup with his goal for the interim 2:0.

Born on July 8

• 1885 Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher
• 1885 Hugo Boss, German textile entrepreneur
• 1890 Walter Hasenclever, German writer
• 1916 Peter Pasetti, German actor
• 1934 Marty Feldman, British-American comedian
• 1951 Anjelica Huston, American actress
• 1953 Zachi Noy, Israeli actor
• 1961 Andrew Fletcher, British musician
• 1990 Kevin Trapp, German footballer
• 1991 Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „8. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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