8th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1781
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Tom Cribb, prize fighter"
  • 1839
  • United States
  • "Birth of John D Rockefeller, oilman and philanthropist"
  • 1851
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist" more
  • 1882
  • Australia
  • "Birth of Percy Grainger, composer" more
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of Nelson Rockefeller, US Vice-President (1974–77) ."
  • 1933
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Marty Feldman, British comedian and actor ."
• event
  • 1497
  • Portugal
  • Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
  • 1709
  • "Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava, eastern Ukraine Peter the Great of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden. This effectively ended Swedens role as a major power in Europe"
  • 1758
  • "French and Indian War: French troops successfully defended Fort Carillon (later Fort Ticonderoga), New York, against British forces despite being."
  • 1884
  • Great Britain
  • The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) was founded in London
  • 1892
  • Argentina
  • Francisca Rojas was the first person convicted using fingerprint evidence. (She had murdered her two children in Buenos Aires).
  • 1918
  • Great Britain
  • National Savings Stamps first went on sale in Briatin more
  • 1949
  • South Africa
  • South Africa banned mixed race marriages
  • 1978
  • Mountaineers Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) became the first to climb Everest without oxygen.
• Death
  • 1822
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet" more
  • 1859
  • Sweden
  • "Death of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway, succeeded by Charles IV"
  • 1933
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Anthony Hope, author (The Prisoner of Zenda)" more
  • 1933
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Anthony Hope, British novelist (‘The Prisoner of Zenda’) ."
  • 1939
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of (Henry) Havelock Ellis, British essayist and physician who studied human sexual behaviour and challenged Victorian taboos"
  • 1967
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Vivien Leigh, actor"
  • 1973
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer"