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Our Lady of Kazan
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: An Aragonese fleet of galleys inflicted a crushing defeat on an Angevin fleet at Malta, forcing Charles I of Anjou to postpone his plan to invade Sicily. | primary sources |
| 1497 – Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India. | Both refimprove. Check February 12 before adding to MainPage |
| 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1859 – Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I. | refimprove section, unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most circulated business daily newspaper, was published. | recentism |
| 1898 – American con artist and gangster Soapy Smith was killed in Skagway, Alaska, when an argument with fellow gang members turned into an unexpected gunfight. | refimprove |
| 1972 – Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad agents in response to the Lod Airport massacre. | missing ISBNs |
| 1994 – Upon the death of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il (pictured) became the supreme leader of North Korea. | More citations needed |
| 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in STS-135, the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. | unreferenced section |
| 2014 – In response to the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, Israel launched a military operation into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. | Lots of inline tags |
| Sourav Ganguly |b|1972| | Fan pov |
| Abdul Sattar Edhi |d|2016| | lots of cn |
| Alberto Bolognetti |b|1538| | Cited source says 28th July |
Eligible
- 1709 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava.
- 1758 – French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British colony of New York.
- 1776 – The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
- 1950 – Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a North Korean attack.
- 1962 – Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.
- 1965 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 was destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.
- 1980 – Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.
- 2003 – Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashed near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
- 2021 – Head of a Bear (pictured) sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Born/died this day: | Saint Kilian |d|689| Qatr al-Nada |d|900| Ælfwynn |d|983| Carlos, Prince of Asturias |b|1545| Peter Sainthill |b|1593| Giorgio Pullicino |b|1779| James B. McCreary |b|1838| Eli Lilly |b|1838| Käthe Kollwitz |b|1867| Percy Grainger|b|1882| Hugo Boss |b|1885| George W. Romney |b|1907| Saprang Kalayanamitr|b|1948| Etta Lemon |d|1953| Tzipi Livni |b|1958| Yarden Gerbi |b|1989| Sky Ferreira |b|1992| Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud |d|2012| Tom Veryzer|d|2014| Abul Kalam Qasmi|d|2021|
July 8: Islamic New Year (2024, 1446 AH)
- 1663 – Baptist minister John Clarke (pictured) was granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed".
- 1874 – Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.
- 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
- 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi.
- 2014 – German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube.
- Ælfwynn (d. 983)
- Giorgio Pullicino (b. 1779)
- Yarden Gerbi (b. 1989)
- Tom Veryzer (d. 2014)