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Significance of 8th July:



1497- Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

1889- The first issue of American newspaper based The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is published with a focus on business and finance.

1937- Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

1948- The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).

2011- Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle programme.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1903- Umaid Singh was Maharaja of Jodhpur from 1918 to his death.

1912- Babu Banarasi Das was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

1914- Jyoti Basu was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000.

1939- Ganga Prasad Chaurasia is an Indian politician who is currently governor of the state of Sikkim and former governor of Meghalaya. 

1949- Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was the 14th chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

1961- Murali Dhar Parashar is an Indian wildlife photographer and painter. He is best known for his paintings of tigers with the medium of lampblack or soot.   

1972- Sourav Ganguly, also known as Dada, is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He is popularly called the Maharaja of Indian Cricket.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1822- Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets.

2001- Amiya Bhushan Majumdar was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and playwright.

2003- Subhas Mukhopadhyay was one of the foremost Indian Bengali poets of the 20th century.

2007- Chandra Shekhar known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of India.

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