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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1709" title="1709">1709</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War" title="Great Northern War">Great Northern War</a>: Swedish forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden" title="Charles XII of Sweden">Charles XII</a> were defeated by Russian troops led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great" title="Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava" title="Battle of Poltava">Battle of Poltava</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">United States Declaration of Independence</a></b> received its first formal public reading, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>: American troops withdrew from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonan" title="Cheonan">Cheonan</a>, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chonan" title="Battle of Chonan">a North Korean attack</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – German citizen <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittank" title="Disappearance of Lars Mittank">Lars Mittank disappeared</a></b> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Airport" title="Varna Airport">Varna Airport</a>, Bulgaria; his last known movements have been widely watched on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021" title="2021">2021</a> – sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatr_al-Nada" title="Qatr al-Nada">Qatr al-Nada</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 900); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprang_Kalayanamitr" title="Saprang Kalayanamitr">Saprang Kalayanamitr</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1948); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Lemon" title="Etta Lemon">Etta Lemon</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1953); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul_Kalam_Qasmi" title="Abul Kalam Qasmi">Abul Kalam Qasmi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2021)</p>
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