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This is a list of selected July 8 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1497Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India. featured on February 12
1579Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia. refimprove section
1859Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I. refimprove section, unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1879 – Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated Jeannette expedition departed San Francisco to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait. date contradicts that in USS Jeannette (1878) which is featured on June 13; blurbs should be combined once the issue is resolved
1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most circulated business daily newspaper, was published. refimprove section
1972 – Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad agents in response to the Lod Airport massacre. missing ISBNs
1994 – Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il became the Supreme Leader of North Korea. unreferenced section
2011Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in STS-135, the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. unreferenced section
James Bennett McCreary (b. 1838) TFA for 2019

Eligible

July 8

Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph Bonaparte

Carlos, Prince of Asturias (b. 1545) · Eli Lilly (b. 1838) · Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud (d. 2012)

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