07-08-2006, 05:22 AM
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July 8th.
1695 ~ Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch Scientist.
1776 ~ The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
1822 ~ Death of Percy Shelley, English poet.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German Inventor.
1882 ~ Birthday of Percy Grainger, Australian Composer.
1889 ~ In the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain.
1889 ~ The first issue of the Wall Street Journal published.
1892 ~ St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated by the Great Fire of 1892.
1986 ~ Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1997 ~ Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" could cause severe heart and lung damage.
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