July 8

See also: Category: Holidays July 8

National

•   Zambia - Day of Unity.
•   Russia - Day of family, love and fidelity (Day of Peter and Fevronia)

  Religious

  Orthodoxy ^{[2] [3]}

• Rev. Martyr Fevronia the Virgin (c. 304);
• the faithful Prince Peter (in the monasticism of David) and Princess Fevronia (in the monasticism of Euphrosyne) , the Murom wonderworkers (1228);
• memory of the Monk Dalmat of Iset , Perm, founder of the Dalmatian Holy Assumption Monastery (1697).
• memory of the holy martyr Vasily Militsyn, presbyter (1918);
• memory of Rev. Nikon of Optina (Belyaev) , hieromonk (1931);
• memory of the holy martyr Vasily Protopopov, presbyter (1940).

Name Day

• Catholic: Aljbeth , Eugene , Prokop .
• Orthodox: Constantine , Leonid , Peter , Fedor , David .

See also: Category: July 8 events

• 52 BC e. - accepted date of founding of Paris .
• 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers : the Aragonese fleet under the command of Admiral Ruggiero Lauria defeats the Anjou fleet at the Battle of Malta .
• 1497 - the first sea expedition from Europe to India sailed from Lisbon , led by Vasco da Gama .
• 1573 - The Boulogne Edict put an end to the 4-year war of the French Catholics and the Huguenots .
• 1618 - for the “enchantment” of the French queen, the chambermaid of Maria Medici was executed.
• 1654 - The first Jew, arrived in America .
• 1659 - Battle of Konotop .
• 1663 - The English King Charles II endorsed the Royal Rhode Island Charter introduced by John Clark .
• 1686 - Austrian troops liberated Buda from Turkish rule, which lasted from 1541 .
• 1709 - the Battle of Poltava took place - the largest battle of the Great Northern War .
• 1716 - During the Great Northern War , the Battle of Dunekilen between the Danish and Swedish squadrons took place.
• 1758 - During the Seven Years War , the Battle of Carillon occurred at the North American Theater of War .
• 1777 - Vermont became the 1st state to abolish slavery .
• 1796 - The US Department of State issued the first US citizen passport.
• 1819 - St. Isaac's Cathedral was laid in St. Petersburg , designed by architect Auguste Montferrand .
• 1820 - The Frankfurt Diet passed the Vienna Final Act, supplementing the constitution of the German Union and reaffirming the sovereignty of the German states.
• 1833 - Unkar-Isklesia agreement was signed on peace, friendship and a defensive alliance between Russia and the Ottoman Empire .
• 1853 - American commander Matthew Perry landed in Tokyo Bay, on behalf of the United States, demanding that Japan establish trade relations with America before the end of the year.
• 1889 - The first issue of The Wall Street Journal came out.
• 1901 - in France, a speed limit for cars in cities was introduced - 10 km / h.
• 1907 - New York hosted the first performance of the most famous American variety show of the first half of the 20th century “Ziegfeld Follies”, organized by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld .
• 1916 - decree on mobilizing for forced labor 400 thousand residents of Turkestan and the steppe regions. The mass uprising of Kazakh tribes was brutally suppressed.
• 1918 - the State Senate of Ukraine was created in Kiev .
• 1920 - The English colony of East Africa is renamed Kenya .
• 1922 - for the first time in the world, experiments on the use of aviation for pest control in agriculture were conducted at the former Khodynka aerodrome (pilot N.P. Ilzin).
• 1944
  • By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the honorary title " Mother Heroine " was introduced and the Order " Maternal Glory " and the medal " Medal of Motherhood " were established.
  • Production of the first car at the ZIS plant evacuated to the city of Miass (JV Stalin Plant).
• 1945 - The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences was restored after the Great Patriotic War (KAO was founded on the basis of a private amateur observatory created in 1900 ).
• 1958 - the first post-war German helicopter made the first flight - the triple Borgwart "Hummingbird I", built by Heinrich Focke .
• 1962 - the crash of a Douglas DC-8 aircraft near Djunnar ( India ). Killed 94 people.
• 1969 - Vietnam War : the withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam , which ended in three and a half years, was begun.
• 1972 - US President Nixon announced that the USSR would purchase $ 750 million worth of US grain within 3 years.
• 1974 - The CPSU Central Committee approved the project for the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway ( BAM ).
• 1977 - An-24 plane crash at Sukhumi airport . Killed 6 people.
• 1980 - the crash of the Tu-154 in Almaty . 166 people died - the largest plane crash in the history of Kazakhstan .
• 1997 - in Russia a new provision on the passport was adopted (all citizens who have reached the age of 14 years must have it).
• 2003 - the crash of a Boeing 737 aircraft south of Port Sudan . 117 people died - the largest plane crash in Sudan's history.
• 2008 - The Czech Republic became the 18th member of the European Space Agency .
• 2011 - launch of the Atlantis shuttle . The last flight of the Atlantis shuttle, which completed the operation of Space Shuttle ships ^[4] .

See also: Category: Born on July 8

Until the 19th century

• 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi (d. C. 1653 ), Italian artist.
• 1621 - Jean de Lafontaine (d. 1695 ), French poet and fabulist.
• 1767 - Pavel Chichagov (d. 1849 ), Russian admiral, son of Vasily Chichagov , Minister of the Sea of ​​the Russian Empire.
• 1785 - Karl Friedrich von Ledebur (d. 1851 ), German scientist, teacher and traveler in the Russian service.

XIX century

• 1819
  • Vatroslav Lisinsky (d. 1854 ), Croatian composer, representative of the national revival movement.
  • Francis McClintock (d. 1907 ), an English polar explorer who found the remains of an expedition of John Franklin .
• 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain ( d.1914 ), British politician and statesman, father of Austin Chamberlain and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain .
• 1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin (d. 1917 ), German designer of airships , count .
• 1839 - John Rockefeller (d. 1937 ), American industrialist, founder of the oil company Standard Oil .
• 1842 - Nikolai Benardos (d. 1905 ), Russian engineer, inventor of all types of electric arc welding.
• 1843 - German Christian Hildebrand (d. 1890 ), German Baltic historian, archivist , teacher.
• 1851 - Arthur John Evans (d. 1941 ), English historian and archaeologist, pioneer of the Minoan civilization .
• 1867 - Kete Kolwitz (d. 1945 ), German graphic artist and sculptor.
• 1882 - Percy Granger (d. 1961 ), American pianist, arranger and composer of Australian descent.
• 1885
  • Ernst Bloch (d. 1977 ), German philosopher, sociologist and publicist, neo-Marxist .
  • Paul Leni (d. 1929 ), German graphic designer, decorator and filmmaker.
• 1890 - Hans Jost (d. 1978 ), German poet, prose writer and playwright, Nazi, SS gruppenfuhrer .
• 1892
  • Richard Aldington (d. 1962 ), English poet, prose writer, critic.
  • Nikolai Polikarpov (d. 1944 ), a Russian aircraft designer, one of the founders of the Soviet school of aircraft engineering.
• 1893 - Fritz Perls (d. 1970 ), German psychiatrist of Jewish origin, founder of gestalt therapy .
• 1894 - Peter Kapitsa (d. 1984 ), Soviet physicist, engineer, academician, Nobel laureate (1978).
• 1895 - Igor Tamm (d. 1971 ), Soviet theoretical physicist, professor, academician, Nobel laureate in physics (1958).
• 1897 - Isabelino Gradin (d. 1944 ), Uruguayan footballer, two-time champion of South America.

XX century

• 1903 - Carlo Tsecci (d. 1984 ), Italian pianist and conductor.
• 1904 - Vladimir Belokurov (d. 1973 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1905 - Leonid Amalrik (d. 1997 ), Soviet director-animator.
• 1906 - Philip Johnson (d. 2005 ), American architect, first Pritzker Prize laureate (1979).
• 1908
  • Boris Wilde (executed in 1942 ), Russian poet, linguist and anthropologist, member of the French Resistance .
  • Louis Jordan (d. 1975 ), American jazz and blues musician, saxophonist, band leader, composer.
  • Harald Reinl (d. 1986 ), Austrian filmmaker.
  • Nelson Rockefeller (d. 1979 ), American politician and businessman, vice president of the United States (1974-1977).
• 1915 - Nikolai Kryukov (d. 1993 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1917 - Mikhail Devyatayev (d. 2002 ), a Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a German concentration camp on a hijacked plane, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1935 - Vitaly Sevastyanov (d. 2010 ), Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1938
  • Andrei Myagkov , theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Leonid Tanyuk (d. 2016 ), Ukrainian politician, writer, theater director, people's artist of Ukraine.
• 1942 - Rudolf Fruntov (d. 2015 ), Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.
• 1950 - Konstantin Raikin , theater and film actor, artistic director of the Satyricon Theater, people's artist of Russia.
• 1951 - Angelica Houston , American film actress and director.
• 1952 - Karen Shakhnazarov , Russian film director, screenwriter, producer, public figure, people's artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1958 - Kevin Bacon , American actor, winner of the Golden Globe Award.
• 1961 - Andy Fletcher , British keyboardist, one of the founders of Depeche Mode .
• 1962 - Joan Osbourne , American rock singer, songwriter.
• 1963 - Dmitry Pevtsov , theater and film actor, singer, people's artist of Russia.
• 1965 - Julia Rutberg , theater and film actress, people's artist of Russia.
• 1972 - Lika Rulla , actress and singer, star of Russian musicals.
• 1973 - Kathleen Robertson , Canadian actress.
• 1974
  • Diana Arbenina , Russian singer, musician, leader of the rock band Night Snipers .
  • Zhanna Friske (d. 2015 ), Russian pop singer, TV presenter, actress, former soloist of the Brilliant group.
• 1977 - Milo Ventimiglia , American actor.
• 1981 - Anastasia Myskina , Russian tennis player.

See also: Category: July 8 dead

Until the 19th century

• 303 - Procopius of Caesarea , Christian saint, great martyr.
• 1180 - Albert of Genoa (b. 1090 ), Catholic saint, member of the monastic order of the Cistercians , hermit.
• 1623 - Gregory XV (in the world of Alessandro Ludovisi ; b. 1554 ), 234th pope (1621-1623).
• 1681 - Georg Neumark (b. 1621 ), German poet, composer, gambist musician and librarian ^[5] .
• 1695 - Christian Huygens (b. 1629 ), Dutch mathematician, physicist, mechanic, and astronomer.
• 1721 - Elihu Yale (b. 1649 ), British merchant, Governor of Madras, founder of Yale University .

XIX century

• 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. 1792 ), English romantic poet.
• 1823 - Henry Reburn (b. 1756 ), Scottish romantic painter.
• 1848 - Evdokia Istomina (b. 1799 ), Russian ballet dancer.
• 1859 - Oscar I (nee Joseph-Oscar Bernadotte ; b. 1799 ), king of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859).
• 1867 - Benoit Furnernon (b. 1802 ), French engineer, inventor of the hydraulic motor.
• 1869 - Ivan Lazhechnikov (b. 1792 ), Russian writer.
• 1872 - Vladimir Raevsky (b. 1795 ), poet and publicist, Decembrist.
• 1895 - Johann Joseph Loschmidt (b. 1821 ), Austrian physicist and chemist.
• 1898 - Nikolai Yaroshenko (b. 1846 ), Russian artist- Wanderer .

XX century

• 1904 - Nikolai Obruchev (b. 1830 ), Russian general, creator of the Earth and Freedom society.
• 1906 - Ivan Melnikov (b. 1832 ), Russian opera singer (lyric-dramatic baritone ).
• 1927 - Max Hoffmann (b. 1869 ), German general, in 1916-1918 chief of staff of the Eastern Front.
• 1932 - Alexander Green (b. 1880 ), Russian writer.
• 1943 - Jean Moulin (b. 1899 ), French politician, hero of the resistance movement of the Second World War .
• 1946 - Alexander Alexandrov (b. 1883 ), composer, author of the music of the anthem of the USSR and Russia.
• 1957 - William Cadbury (b. 1867 ), English chocolate maker, designer of the Cadbury company logo.
• 1967 - Vivien Leigh (b. 1913 ), English actress, winner of two Oscars .
• 1969 - Philip of October (b. 1899 ), admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1979
  • Robert Burns Woodward (b. 1917 ), American chemist, Nobel laureate (1965).
  • Sinichiro Tomonaga (b. 1906 ), Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (1965).
• 1981 - Joseph Tumanov (b. 1909 ), actor, director, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1985 - Simon Smith Smith (b. 1901 ), American economist, Nobel laureate (1971).
• 1986 - Hyman George Rickover (b. 1900 ), American admiral, "father of the atomic fleet."
• 1994
  • Kim Il Sung (b. 1912 ), Korean statesman, general secretary of the Labor Party of Korea (since 1946).
  • Christian-Jacques (b. 1904 ), French filmmaker.
• 1999 - Charles Conrad (b. 1930 ), American astronaut, third person to set foot on the moon.
• 2000 - FM-2030 (real name Fereydun M. Esfendiari ; b. 1930 ), futurologist, philosopher, writer.

21st Century

• 2001 - Gennady Zavolokin (born 1948 ), composer, accordionist and harmonist, poet, TV presenter, and national artist of Russia, died.
• 2004 - Jean Lefebvre (b. 1922 ), French comedic film actor.
• 2006 - Catherine Leroy (b. 1945 ), an American military journalist known for photographs from the Vietnam War .
• 2011 - Andrei Ladynin (b. 1938 ), Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor.
• 2013 - Egor Isaev (b. 1926 ), Russian Soviet poet and publicist, Hero of Socialist Labor.

Day of Peter and Fevronia . Fevronia the Mermaid. Mermaids. Peter and Fevronia.

• From this day, another 40 hot days are expected.
• After Ivan there is no need for a bogeyman.
• If it rains that day, there will be a good harvest of honey.
• Pigs and mice eat hay - to a bad mowing.