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1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S.Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA.

1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.

1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1919 - U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1947 - Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.

1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.

1953 - Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.

1960- The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.

1981 - All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.

1986 - Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.

1993 - Charles Keating, chief of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for violating California security and fraud laws.

1997 - NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.

1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could cause serious heart and lung damage.

2000 - J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.

I should have added one:

2005 - Summer & hubby got married.

On this Day

July 8

1776 ~ Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

1795 ~ Kent County Free School changed its name to Washington College. It was the first college to be named after U.S. President George Washington. The school was established by an act of the Maryland Assembly in 1723.

1815 ~ Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon.

1865 ~ C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.

1881 ~ Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.

1889 ~ John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.

1907 ~ Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1919 ~ U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1947 ~ Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.

1953 ~ Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.

1969 ~ The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."

1970 ~ The San Francisco Giant’s Jim Ray Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.

1986 ~ Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.

1997 ~ NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.

2000 ~ J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.

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