WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. JULY
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The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. (8. July 1889)

St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. (8. July 1892)

The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. (8. July 1898)

Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. (8. July 1912)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22. (8. July 1932)

The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. (8. July 1933)

Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. (8. July 1937)

Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. (8. July 1947)

The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). (8. July 1948)

Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. (8. July 1960)

Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. (8. July 1962)

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. (8. July 1966)

The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. (8. July 1968)

Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. (8. July 1970)

Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. (8. July 1982)

The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more. (8. July 1988)

Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. (8. July 1994)

Delta Goodrem diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. (8. July 2003)

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. (8. July 2011)