Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 8
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This is a list of selected July 8 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1709 – Great Northern War: At Poltava, Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in the Battle of Poltava, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
- 1859 – Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I.
- 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, an influential international daily newspaper, was published.
- 1947 – Various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying saucer" by United States Air Force personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 2004 – After a 19-month trial, U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown was convicted by a court in Naha, Okinawa for an attempted indecent assault on a Filipina bartender.
