History for July 8 - On-This-Day.com
Jean La Fontaine 1621, Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838, John D. Rockefeller 1839
Wolfgang Puck 1949, Kevin Bacon 1958, Toby Keith 1961
1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
1963 - All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.
1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."
2010 - The Solar Impulse completed the first 24-hour flight by a solar powered plane.
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