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Wednesday, 08 July 2026
1975 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River. 
1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.
1975 Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1977 Radio Shack announces TRS-80 computer. Within weeks thousands were ordered
1977 Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83.
1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1979 Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered
1983 Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer.
1984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87.
1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river.
1990 Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion.
1990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1991 Pan Am games open in Havana.
1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1993 James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1995 Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79.
1996 Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87
2007 A strain of foot and mouth disease is are discovered on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. Gordon Brown holds a COBRA meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
2012 United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
2013 9 children are killed by a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
2014 The Israeli Defence Force remove much of its ground forces from the Gaza Strip following the destruction of 32 tunnels built by Hamas and other militants.
2014 Ludian earthquake in China killing 729 people.
2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is elected for his second term as President
2017 Footballer Neymar signs 5-year deal with club Paris Saint-Germain in a $263 million world-record transfer from Barcelona.
2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 2 1/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide.
2017 Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
2019 A mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States, leaves 22 people dead and 24 others injured
2021 Singer Tony Bennett celebrates his 95th birthday with Lady Gaga in the inaugural of 2 "farewell" performances at Radio City Music Hall, NYC
2021 The oil tanker Asphalt Princess is hijacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
2023 Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi is recorded as becoming inaugural WNBA player to reach 10000 points as she drops 42 points in a 91-71 win over the Atlanta Dream at Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona.
