2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the US Space Shuttle program
1951 - The city of Paris, France celebrates its 2000th birthday
1948 - The US Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF)
1917 - The first Ziegfeld Follies is staged by Florenz Ziegfeld in NYC.
1776 - The Liberty Bell tolls to announce the Declaration of Independence, ringing out from the tower of Independence Hall in Philadelphia
This Day In Business
1889 - The Wall Street Journal publishes its first issue.
1988 - Stevie Wonder announces running for mayor of Detroit in 1992 election, but withdraws.
1923 - President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president in office to visit Alaska
2010 - Lebron James: "The Decision" to leave Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat.
July 8th Holiday
Video Games Day - A day for gamers which celebrate popular video games and the many way they have changed the way kids play games
Today's Birthday Trivia
He once worked for a Dutch gaming publication titled Power Unlimited. Who is he?
Today's Birthday Horoscope
Learn about people born on this day by reading the July 8 Birthday Horoscope.
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