Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 8

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 * 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.