Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: July 8
July 8, 2025 is the 189th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 8
- 1099 –First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
- 1283 –War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought.
- 1716 –Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
- 1859 –King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1876 –White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- 1898 –The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
- 1912 –Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- 1948 –The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- 1970 –Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
- 1994 –Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
Who were born on July 8?
- 1851 –Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
- 1892 –Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
- 1904 –Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
- 1908 –Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
- 1947 –Kim Darby, American actress
- 1963 –Mark Christopher, American film director
- 1976 –David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves)
- 1983 –Daniel Navarro García, Spanish cyclist
- 1987 –Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
- 2000 –Sophie Nyweide, American actress
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