8 de Julho

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July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining.

Events
1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1709 – Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden’s role as a major power in Europe.
1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1969 – IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
2000 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in J.K. Rowling’s hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.

Births
1545 – Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
1838 – Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1937)
1851 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1882 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
1918 – Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
1933 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1935 – Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1935 – Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
1961 – Andy Fletcher, musician (Depeche Mode)
1961 – Toby Keith, American country music singer
1970 – Beck, American singer
1982 – Eu