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Events

• 1283 (743 years ago) Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.
• 1864 (162 years ago) Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishis planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
• 1980 (46 years ago) Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan), killing all 166 people on board.
• 1988 (38 years ago) The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
• 1994 (32 years ago) Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung.
• 2014 (12 years ago) Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
• 2025 (a year ago) Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane, causing 44 deaths, over 2.7 residents without power, and $28 billion to $32 billion dollars worth of damage.

Births

• 1593 (433 years ago) Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died 1653)
• 1621 (405 years ago) Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (died 1695)
• 1839 (187 years ago) John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (died 1937)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
• 1908 (118 years ago) Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (died 1979)
• 1991 (35 years ago) Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer
• 1992 (34 years ago) Son Heung-min, Korean footballer

Deaths

• 1153 (873 years ago) Pope Eugene III,
• 1623 (403 years ago) Pope Gregory XV,
• 1695 (331 years ago) Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1629)
• 1822 (204 years ago) Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (born 1792)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Vivien Leigh, British actress (born 1913)
• 1994 (32 years ago) Kim Il Sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (born 1912)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Ernest Borgnine, American actor (born 1917)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician (born 1954)

All 295 events, births and deaths of July 8