What events happened on July 8?

What events happened on July 8?

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌏 World Allergy Day.

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇷🇺 Russia – Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Day of the Disabled and the Elderly.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Family Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– BC 52 – The day Paris (Lutetia) was founded.
– 1497 – The first European sea expedition to India, led by Vasco da Gama, set sail from Lisbon.
– 1618 – The servant of Maria de Medici was executed for “bewitching” the French princess.
– 1659 – Battle of Qanotop.
– 1686 – Siege of Buda.
– 1709 – Northern War: Battle of Poltava.
– 1777 – Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery.
– 1796 – The US State Department issued the first passport to a US citizen.
– 1916 – Decree on the forced labor of 400 thousand residents of Turkestan and the steppe regions. A mass uprising of Kazakh tribes was brutally suppressed.
– 1920 – The British colony of East Africa was renamed Kenya.
– 1969 – Vietnam War: The withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam began, which was completed in three and a half years.
– 1974 – The Central Committee of the CPSU approved the project for the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM).
– 1994 – The date of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Uzbekistan and Kuwait.
– 1998 – Google founder Larry Page adds the verb “to google” (Uzbek: гугллаш) to the list of words.
– 2008 – The Czech Republic becomes the 18th member of the European Space Agency.
– 2022 – Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated during an election campaign.