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July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 176 days remain until the end of the year.
Current events/2024 July 8. Russia launches a massive missile attack striking residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in cities across Ukraine, including the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv. At least 47 people are killed and 189 others are injured as a result of the strikes. (BBC News)
Portal. : Current events/2021 July 8. U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will end its military mission in Afghanistan by August 31. Also, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says that the Biden administration will evacuate Afghan interpreters from the country.
Current events/2022 July 8. Serhiy Haidai, Governor of Luhansk Oblast, says that Russian shelling continues across the oblast and that the 8,000 residents of Sievierodonetsk are on the verge of a "humanitarian catastrophe". (ABC News)
Current events/2023 July 8. At least 22 people are killed by an airstrike in Omdurman, Sudan. (Reuters) Russian forces shell Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, killing eight people and injuring 13 others, according to governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. (BBC News)
Events. 1680 – The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. 1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is ...
2014 in various calendars. 2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.
July 2020 Afghanistan attacks. A suicide bomber kills three people when he drives a military vehicle packed with explosives near the provincial governor's residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims responsibility. (Reuters) Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir.